How?

The Market Transformation Programme supports a structured, public domain sector review process, conducted in partnership with business, consumers, experts and other bodies. We use the Internet to encourage public awareness and scrutiny of current policy thinking, promoting openness, transparency and joined-up government.

MTP delivers:

  • a market transformation rationale and structured environment for identifying the key issues that determine resource efficiency, for constructing robust policy solutions and for monitoring the outcome
  • a reference knowledge base of reliable information, current analysis and working assumptions
  • up to date briefing notes on key issues and current developments
  • an informed consensus on the potential for change, the policy options and the priority actions.
  • accessible, public information on policy direction and likely outcomes via www.mtprog.com
  • support for specific policy initiatives and for wider policy programmes

A key feature of the programme is the clear illustration of current thinking and likely outcomes by the use of market projections and policy scenarios. This helps to 'reality test' the explicit market transformation policy rationales against consumer expectations and industry's own business plans. The main deliverable and focus for the sector review is a revised Policy Brief - a clear statement of the issues, priorities and actions needed to deliver quantified improvements in resource efficiency over time. The Policy Brief is a public domain document and is intended to be referred to in policy discussions and in support of Government decisions.

What?

MTP's current focus is on improving the delivered energy performance of domestic and non-domestic products, especially energy consuming appliances, equipment and components. We have established sector reviews in 12 major sectors, covering 27 product types, representing 75% of UK electricity consumption.

These include all major domestic energy consuming appliances (lighting, heating, cold, wet, cooking and consumer electronics) and traded goods in the commercial sector (office equipment, motors and drives, lighting and commercial refrigeration). The programme now incorporates DEFRA's work in support of Ecolabelling and we have recently opened a new programme to look at household water consumption. UKEPIC (www.ukepic.com) is a new initiative to provide access to reliable public domain product information and will support a variety of key policy measures such as labelling, buyers guides, standards and green procurement.

Outreach activities include a collaborative project with the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs to develop an international Policy Information Forum (www.mtpif.com) to encourage more efficient and effective policy development by improved information exchange and common rationales. DEFRA is exploring the scope for dealing more generally with broader environmental and Integrated Product Policy issues under this programme.g more generally with broader environmental and Integrated Product Policy issues under this programme.

Further information

News and information on MTP and all its activities can be found at our web site: www.mtprog.com. We encourage the use of current MTP material for policy research, briefing and in presentations. Useful material includes:

  • Market analysis, baselines, projections, policy scenarios and working assumptions on UK stock, usage, and technological developments, energy usage and carbon emissions.
  • Product databases, a growing suite of searchable product energy consumption databases
  • 'Fast Facts' a growing set of quotable consumption-related information for articles, speeches etc, based on authoritative MTP data.
  • News on existing, new and projected policy measures, including UK and EU legislation.

Sector Review Meetings

MTP meets regularly with business, consumer and expert bodies and policy makers to develop and maintain the Policy Briefs, including provisional action plans and linking to the underlying, 'knowledge base' of information, analysis and other discussion material. Together, this issue-based material provides an authoritative public domain resource for policy discussions. Check our News and Events page for up-to-date information on the next review meetings and other important developments.