This feasibility study considers the potential for regulation to support innovative products and solutions that deliver different benefits when applied within a retrofit project.
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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.
Regulatory science strategies
- Supporting regulatory decisions with science: Identifying and producing the evidence regulators need to keep regulation adequate, relevant and up to date, responding to latest scientific developments. This includes:
- Identifying common challenges, and using scientific methods to create solutions.
- Collection and scientific analysis of data and evidence.
- Developing new or improved testing methods.
- Identifying regulatory science capacity gaps.
- Helping innovators navigate the regulatory framework: Ensuring innovation to deliver Net Zero through retrofit can be brought to market, and creating the technical tools innovators need to navigate existing regulations, so they understand what they need to do. This includes:
- Building clearer pathways to use existing regulations more effectively.
- Connecting with regulatory science expertise.
- Identifying areas requiring further research.
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