Clean growthThe Department have indicated they will maximise the advantages for UK industry from the global shift to clean growth.Mission: At least halve the energy use of new buildings by 2030Heating and powering buildings accounts for 40% of our total energy usage in the UK. By making our buildings more energy efficient and embracing smart technologies, we can cut household energy bills, reduce demand for energy, and boost economic growth while meeting our targets for carbon reduction.For homes this will mean halving the total use of energy compared to today’s standards for new build. This will include a building’s use of energy for heating and cooling and appliances, but not transport.This will be achieved by: making sure every new building in Britain is safe, high quality, much more efficient and uses clean heating innovating to make low energy, low carbon buildings cheaper to build driving lower carbon, lower cost and higher quality construction through innovative techniques giving consumers more control over how they use energy through smart technologies halving the cost of renovating existing buildings to a similar standard as new buildings, while increasing quality and safetyThe mission is backed by £170 million of public money through the Transforming Construction Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. This is matched by £250 million of private sector investment, meaning over £400 million will be invested in new construction products, technologies and techniques.Progress so farBEIS have: published the Construction Sector Deal established the Active Buildings Centre with £36 million investment from government and industry to develop new building materials which generate electricity from light and heat invested £72 million to establish a Construction Innovation Hub, a partnership between the Manufacturing Technology Centre, Building Research Establishment and the Centre for Digital Built Britain, to support research into developing and commercialising digital design and offsite manufacturing technologies committed to adopt the new Future Homes Standard by 2025 to ensure all new homes are future-proofed with low-carbon heating and world-leading levels of energy efficiency launched supply chain pilots worth up to £3 million to test different approaches to increase the rate of energy efficiency improvement by supporting local supply chain integration and project coordinationNext stepsBEIS will be launching: a design competition for the Home of 2030 to encourage innovation in the design and delivery of higher quality, more energy efficient housing that also addresses the needs of an ageing population a consultation on improving energy performance standards for buildings through changes to Part L of the Building Regulations an innovation competition to demonstrate a cost reduction trajectory in whole house retrofitMission: Establish the world’s first net-zero carbon industrial cluster by 2040 and at least 1 low-carbon cluster by 2030This mission will be achieved by: reducing emissions in 1 cluster to net-zero by 2040 in at least 1 cluster, by 2030: the low-carbon infrastructure needed to support industrial decarbonisation will be in place and operational, attracting new investment and innovation multiple industrial facilities will already have reduced their emissions, by the greatest possible extent positioning UK clusters as top areas for global inward investment and driving demand for low carbon products and technologies by harnessing the power of markets, the public sector, universities and local communitiesSuccess in this mission would transform our industrial clusters into world leading low-carbon manufacturing hubs, safeguarding existing jobs and companies on which the prosperity of key regions depends.It will further establish the UK’s position at the forefront of the global shift to Clean Growth by developing world-leading expertise in green manufacturing products, and the technologies and services required to produce them. The mission aims to attract inward investment, new business and employment opportunities.It will support the cost-effective decarbonisation of our industrial sector, which accounts for around a quarter of all UK GHG emissions. Industrial Clusters infographicThe mission is backed by £170 million public investment through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. Discussion on clean growthNext stepsBEIS are aiming to open the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge by late summer 2019.
