The SEAI National Deep Retrofit Conference 2017 outlines energy policy ambitions to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 80% by 2050 through efficient energy use in the built environment. It emphasizes the need for evidence-based policymaking and the role of deep retrofit pilots in demonstrating technical feasibility, cost-effectiveness, and multiple benefits such as improved air quality and health. The document highlights the importance of integrating energy efficiency into broader government policies and decision-making processes.

1. SEAI National Deep Retrofit Conference 2017
Energy Policy Context
Overview
•Energy in the Built Environment - Policy Ambition
•Energy Efficiency and Climate Action - Policy Principles
•Preparing for post-2020
•Deep Retrofit Pilot – a key policy making tool

2. Energy in the Built Environment
Policy Ambition
• To reduce CO2emissions by at least 80% by 2050
– Realising the mitigation potential of the Built
Environment
– Maximising the multiple benefits of a low carbon
built environment
– Efficient use of energy to be the norm in the built
environment
• What does tell us about how policy makers
need to make the case for energy efficiency?
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3. Energy Efficiency and Climate Action
Policy Principles
• Inform: make the case for the low carbon journey
• Enable: understand and support decision making
• Conserve: energy conservation renewable sources
• Benefit: data on multiple benefits
• Connect: with wider Government policy
• Communicate: with huge range of stakeholders
Creating the strategic framework that makes energy
efficiency a means to an end for decarbonisation:
fabric first / fuel switching
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4. Context - Preparing for post-2020
Consumer response and policy making
• Residential (Better Energy)
– Communities (combined fabric upgrades)
– Warmer Homes (deeper measures incl. external
insulation)
– Warmth & Wellbeing (energy efficiency & health)
• Public Sector
– SEAI/OPW renovation pilot
– SEAI/Dept of Education schools renovation pilot
• Commercial Sector
– EXEED (Excellence in Energy Efficient Design)
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5. Deep Retrofit Pilot - The policy path to 2030
• Policy making requires an evidence base. What
policy makers need from the Deep Retrofit Pilot:
– Technical certainty
– Replicability and feasibility
– Cost effectiveness
– Comparability with other climate action measures
– The business case for non-Exchequer funding
– Proof of how multiple benefits support other policy areas:
• Air quality
• Health
• Combatting poverty
• Rural development and jobs
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6. Deep Retrofit Pilot - The policy path to 2030
• Policy making requires an evidence base. What
policy makers need from the Deep Retrofit Pilot:
– Technical certainty
– Replicability and feasibility
– Cost effectiveness
– Comparability with other climate action measures
– The business case for non-Exchequer funding
– Proof of how multiple benefits support other policy areas:
• Air quality
• Health
• Combatting poverty
• Rural development and jobs
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