The Green Register will be hosting a webinar on Monday 8th July 2024 (5:00pm - 6:30pm)

Webinar info:

What work is taking place across the UK to support householders, and those working in the supply chain, with retrofit? Join speakers from Future Ready Homes, Retrofit West and People Powered Retrofit in this extended 1.5 hour Twilight Talk to learn about the successes and challenges of promoting domestic retrofit and what needs to happen next.

Speakers Gemma Monk-Hartley and Ben Webster will outline how the Future Ready Homes project has identified the barriers to retrofit for householders, and what is essential in giving them confidence to invest into improving the thermal comfort and energy efficiency of their homes.  What has worked best to motivate householders? 

Simon Andrews will talk about the work Retrofit West are doing, giving a summary of its early learnings and identified challenges that consumers, homeowners and organisations working in the supply chain are facing and what Retrofit West are doing to assist them. He will then discuss in greater depth the work on training and development that Retrofit West are leading on, what this entails and how they are engaging the supply chain to facilitate this in the right way.

Marianne Heaslip joins us on behalf of People Powered Retrofit - a cooperative retrofit, one stop shop that collaborates with householders, designers, contractors and community energy organisations to support the delivery of domestic retrofit projects. Marianne will share some insights from PPR's work in general and then focus on their work with finance, part of the government's Green Homes Finance Accelerator programme.

While we know finance is not the only or often even the biggest barrier in retrofit for many people, the last few years have made a dent in budgets for retrofit. Marianne will explain how PPR is working with a consortium of credit unions to develop new lending products to support retrofit, and how this parallels with programmes happening now under the Inflation Reduction Act in the USA and partner cooperative one stop shops across the EU.

The Twilight Talk will round up with a question and answer session with all speakers.