How to retrofit your home to support the race to net zero - Sustainable Earth 2021
Channel: Sustainable Earth Institute
Date: 06/08/2021

Presented by Justin Bear, Plymouth Energy Community

In ‘How to Retrofit your home to support the race to net zero’ we will explore the very local (your home) and the national picture for how a county drastically reduces our energy demand.

There is an urgent need for a retrofit revolution:
• household energy use accounts for 14% of total UK greenhouse gas emissions;
• fuel poverty is experienced by 3.2m households, costing the NHS £1.4bn annually in avoidable ill health;
• collectively, households in Plymouth spend £149m annually on heat and electricity, this is overwhelmingly a net economic drain on the city.

You should leave this workshop with a better sense of how to reduce your personal emissions, how the country is innovating and gearing up for this challenge and how local organisations like Plymouth Energy Community will be catalysing this transition.