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Statement of Intent for Energy Company Obligation (ECO) Flexible Eligibility

 

 

Meeting: 25/10/2017 - Cabinet (Item 42)

42 Statement of Intent for Energy Company Obligation (ECO) Flexible Eligibility pdf icon PDF 109 KB

Report of the Director of Development, Enterprise and Communities attached

Decision:

RESOLVED (UNANIMOUSLY): that

  1. Option Two be endorsed.
  2. South Ribble Borough Council agrees to take part in the ECO flexible eligibility scheme.
  3. the Statement of Intent for South Ribble Borough Council be agreed.
  4. the Director of Development, Communities and Enterprise be authorised in consultation with the Portfolio Holder, to put all necessary steps in place to implement the Statement of Intent.
  5. the council agrees to runs a promotion / awareness raising campaign with residents.

Minutes:

Further to min. no.32, 6 September 2017, the Director of Development, Enterprise and Communities re-addressed the Cabinet informing members of options under the government’s Energy Company Obligation (ECO). Cabinet was asked to approve either the Council’s Statement of Intent (SOI) or the Cosy Homes in Lancashire Statement of Intent and authorise its publication on the council’s website and BEIS (Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.

 

In order to work with and access funding from the energy suppliers the council had to publish a Statement of Intent (SOI) on its website and BEIS (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) had to be notified of its publication. The 2017 fuel poverty figures indicated there were 4672 (9.9%) of households in the borough in fuel poverty.  The criteria that would be used would help those most vulnerable household’s access funding to enable energy measures to be installed.

 

The council had in the past been successful in implementing schemes to assist the vulnerable.  If the council chose Option Two it would set its own criteria and directly deliver the scheme and be the point of contact for its residents.

 

RESOLVED (UNANIMOUSLY): that

  1. Option Two be endorsed.
  2. South Ribble Borough Council agrees to take part in the ECO flexible eligibility scheme.
  3. the Statement of Intent for South Ribble Borough Council be agreed.
  4. the Director of Development, Communities and Enterprise be authorised in consultation with the Portfolio Holder, to put all necessary steps in place to implement the Statement of Intent.
  5. the council agrees to runs a promotion / awareness raising campaign with residents.