Energy

Heating, efficiency programmes and the design of decarbonisation policy.

• How a clean heat standard actually prices carbon

  Performance-standard schemes for home heating look like carbon taxes to their critics and like efficiency programmes to their supporters. The design detail decides which one they become.

• Weatherisation programmes and the households they never reach

  Low-income weatherisation has among the best measured returns of any public energy programme. Participation rates stay stubbornly low. The reasons are structural, not informational.