Net zero and climate targets

Wayne Harris

28 April 2022, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2

Yes, that would have been me who put that comment in, Jenny. I'm not aware that we've had any conversations with UK Government. We have got consultants who have been making a lot of noise about this at a UK Government level and a Welsh Government level—so that's Sero energy that we're working with.…

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Jenny RathboneLabour

28 April 2022, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2

Thank you very much. I just wanted to highlight something that was in your written evidence, which is that, as soon as you start having a community energy scheme, you then have a whole load of Government tariffs and network transport costs that you don't get if you've just got individual electricity…

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Delyth JewellPlaid

28 April 2022, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2

Thank you, Janet. I'm going to bring Jenny in here, and I know that, David, I think that you'd indicated you wanted to say something as well. But I'll just bring Jenny in first.

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Janet Finch-SaundersConservative

28 April 2022, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2

…because, to be fair, the Government are putting lots of money, throwing a lot of money, into this decarbonisation programme. But if these barriers exist, then—. And it's funny you should mention the likeness of the COVID, but I do think then there needs to be some communication on the part of the…

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Louise Attwood

28 April 2022, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2

Thank you. I just want to give you an example. We actually have a scheme in Neath where we have been putting in a communal air source heat pump into a block of flats. We used a modular air source heat pump plant room that was craned in. But we are still struggling to get into certain properties to…

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Wayne Harris

28 April 2022, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2

Just briefly, Chair. We have found on our Penderi estate in Swansea, where we're putting in photovoltaic panels with battery storage, and then some properties are only getting the batteries, and then they're going to share the energy that's been generated between all the homes equally, that…

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Janet Finch-SaundersConservative

28 April 2022, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2

The reason I ask is because I know that, sometimes, private landlords get slated for not maintaining their properties, but you'd be amazed how often I'm approached by some landlords that say they're trying to actually get into people's properties to make the necessary improvements that are needed…

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Tom Boome

28 April 2022, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2

Sorry, just to come back in there, Janet. I think, as has been mentioned, we're still sort of—. And Louise mentioned about the preparations towards it, but also, as Wayne pointed out, there has been some hesitancy. There's obviously allowing people to see the benefits, but there is hesitancy for the…

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Janet Finch-SaundersConservative

28 April 2022, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2

Thank you. In terms of tenants and retrofitting and decarbonisation of homes, have we got any data on whether tenants have responded negatively or positively to installation of decarbonisation measures in their homes?

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Tom Boome

28 April 2022, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2

Yes, thank you, Chair. I was just going to say, Joyce, I haven't been in the sector for too long, only about a month, but, having worked in the private sector and also the public sector before this, I've been really impressed at the effort, the collective effort, towards the collective goal. There's…

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Neil Barber

28 April 2022, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2

Yes, thank you. I think, Joyce, the clear messages—we are getting much, much better at that. We recongise the scale of the challenge ahead. So, from the RSL perspective, we do recognise Huw's point about the funding. We do feel very privileged in Wales that Welsh Government have been…

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Joyce WatsonLabour

28 April 2022, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2

My question follows through what Scott just said about the layers of expectation being perhaps different in different places and—if I understood you right, I don't want to misrepresent what I thought you said—the emphasis being rather broad and not easily managed in every case to also, then, deliver…

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