Home Energy Conservation Act 1995 (HECA) Strategy
This Act gave local authorities the official status of “energy conservation authorities” and required them to produce reports indicating how they could achieve savings in domestic energy across all their housing stock both public and private. A target of 30% over 10 years was set for all local authorities.
This report constitutes the council’s HECA Strategy.
Glasgow published its report in November 1997 and is required to produce updates for the Scottish Government when requested on a biennial basis. Four reports have been published, the last one covering the two year period to March 2005, and the final report will be scheduled for 2007 covering the two year period ending 31st March 2007. Directions are currently awaited from Communities Scotland, who will also be carrying out a review of outcomes, and making recommendations for the future direction of HECA. In our previous reports, which covered the first eight years of the strategy, we indicated that we had achieved a reduction of 27.9% on CO⒉ emissions, equal to 458,111 tons of CO⒉. The reduction in household energy use was 27%.