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Scottish Government Consultations
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Local Heat & Energy Efficiency Strategies
LHEES (Local Heat & Energy Efficiency Strategies) was introduced by the Scottish Government in 2022. It is an area-based approach to heat and energy efficiency planning and delivery, placing an obligation on all local authorities to prepare a strategy for decarbonising heat in buildings across their entire local area.
The LHEES is tasked with looking at how to decarbonise all buildings across our region, and this project represents a starting point in this journey to establish routes to achieve this outcome. Given the scope of the challenge ahead, our aim is to apply the lessons learnt from this first project in Swinton across future projects in other interested communities.
The attached presentation is part of the LHEES Community Retrofit Pilot Project for Swinton, prepared by Southern Uplands Partnership for Scottish Borders Council in 2024. Whilst this was a standalone project, it links to the Energy Efficiency Supply Chain project by the same team which has been running since 2020. The project brief called for:
“Identification of potential pockets where property archetype, existing heating types, energy ratings and higher energy use may suit a small focussed retrofit project, and where the demographics may indicate that owner occupiers could be open to such a scheme“
This presentation looks specifically at Retrofit Archetypes for energy efficiency measures.
The role of Decarbonising Heat including heat networks is covered by a separate presentation, available by clicking here.
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