RETRO NET ZERO
The RetroNetZero Regulatory Science and Innovation Network (RSIN) is an Innovate UK-funded project focusing on unlocking the adoption of innovation for domestic retrofit.
This paper is a feasibility study developed within one of the ‘Challenge themes’ identified by project stakeholders, and considers how the co-benefits that innovative products and solutions can deliver could be better incentivised.
ENABLING THE CO-BENEFITS OF RETROFIT INNOVATION THROUGH REGULATORY SCIENCE
Retrofit can deliver a wide range of benefits, including reductions in fuel poverty, improved occupant health, increased climate resilience and reductions in whole life carbon emissions. However, regulation does not incentivise the delivery of all these benefits.
This new feasibility study, produced as part of the Innovate UK-funded RetroNetZero Regulatory Science and Innovation Network for Unlocking Adoption of Innovation, considers the potential for regulation to support innovative products and solutions that deliver different benefits when applied within a retrofit project.
The purpose of this study is to explore whether existing regulation, and regulatory tools, are fit to deliver the co-benefits of retrofit. It considers how regulatory science could be used to encourage innovation that provides additional benefits, alongside energy or carbon reductions.
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This report was led by the National Retrofit Hub, as part of the RetroNetZero RS&IN (Retrofit Net-Zero Buildings – Regulatory Science and Innovation Network for unlocking adoption of innovation) project, which is funded by Innovate UK: Regulatory Science & Innovation Networks (Project 10139469).
The consortium, led by BRE includes National Retrofit Hub, Construction Products Association, National Energy Foundation, Constructing Excellence and PlanetMark
