Heat and Built Environment Taskforce
From Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications
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The Heat and Built Environment Taskforce has been established to accelerate and drive delivery in relation to retrofitting, renewable heat, district heat and decarbonisation of the building stock. The overarching aim of the Taskforce is to identify work on the critical path to key targets under each area, ensure alignment in the development of polices and activities underway across Government Departments, and proactively manage risks to ensure targets are achieved.
The National Energy Security Framework, published in April 2022, set out that a new Delivery Taskforce would be established to focus on the heat sector and that it will examine retrofitting, renewable heat, district heating; and decarbonisation of our building stock. The establishment of taskforces or similar appropriate structures which focus on specific areas or initiatives of climate delivery that require cross-Government collaboration are also set out in the Climate Action Plan 2023 and the Annex of Actions.
The Taskforce will be supported by other groups established to examine specific aspects of its remit, including but not limited to groups on: industry, commercial built environment, public sector, residential retrofit, AD/biomethane, and district heating.
To meet this challenge, the key objectives of the Taskforce are to:
The Taskforce is chaired by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, and its membership comprises senior officials from Government Departments and agencies with retrofitting, renewable heat, district heating networks, decarbonisation of heating and operational energy use optimisation in the building stock related actions under the Climate Action Plan. The member organisations are:
The Taskforce will be supported in its work by project management experts, who will advise the Taskforce in creating the system-wide plan, establishing a programme management function and overseeing and reporting on delivery using project management best practice.
Heat and Built Environment Taskforce - Terms of Reference
Heat and Built Environment Taskforce - Minutes from Meeting 1 - 11 January 2023
Heat and Built Environment Taskforce - Minutes from Meeting 2 - 20 February 2023
Heat and Built Environment Taskforce - Minutes from Meeting 3 - 30 March 2023
Heat and Built Environment Taskforce - Minutes from Meeting 4 - 18 May 2023
Heat and Built Environment Taskforce - Minutes from Meeting 5 - 29 June 2023
Heat and Built Environment Taskforce - Minutes from Meeting 6 - 20 September 2023
Heat and Built Environment Taskforce - Minutes from Meeting 7 - 8 November 2023
Heat and Built Environment Taskforce - Minutes from Meeting 9 - 25 January 2024
As set out in the Terms of Reference there are a number of working groups established to deal with specific tasks under the remit of the Heat and Built Environment Taskforce.
The working groups are the: