The Conserve and Save: Energy Efficiency Action Plan reaffirms our ambitious energy efficiency and microgeneration agenda for Scotland. It sets out our wide-ranging programme of activity on behaviour change, household, business and public sector energy efficiency, infrastructure, skills, and finance. It builds on the consultation paper and the responses to it, and is a key component of our broader approach to meeting Scotland's climate change targets and securing the transition to a low carbon economy in Scotland.
The plan sets a framework for energy efficiency and microgeneration that furthers our climate change, economic and social agendas. It drives the cost-effective action required if Scotland is to meet its challenging statutory emissions reduction targets of at least 80% by 2050 and 42% by 2020, as set out in the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. In doing so, it seeks to create employment, promote new technologies, and secure wider economic benefits for the low carbon economy. By reducing energy consumption, it aims to reduce costs for consumers whilst improving levels of comfort, and to improve Scotland's security of energy supply.
The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 requires Scottish Ministers to lay before the Scottish Parliament a report containing an assessment of the progress made in the year towards improving the efficiency and the contribution to sustainability of buildings that are part of the civil estate in Scotland. The first Annual Report can be seen here.