Transcript Opportunities for green jobs, green homes and green

Explaining the Green Deal
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Slides from the Centre for Sustainable Energy
www.cse.org.uk | www.planlocal.org.uk
Why Green Deal?
1 - Improving the housing stock
• Most homes in the UK have low energy efficiency ratings
• 26 million homes in Scotland, England and Wales
2 - Carbon reduction
• UK Climate Change Act (2008) and EU targets
• 27% of total UK carbon emissions from housing sector
• About 80% of carbon emissions from our homes are from
space and water heating
Why Green Deal?
3 - Fuel poverty
• Millions of homes in the UK are in fuel poverty
• Moving from SAP band ‘D’ to ‘B’ is likely to halve your bills
4 - Cost effectiveness
• Estimated £85 billion to retrofit UK homes
• About 60% of lofts and cavity walls already done
• ‘Hard-to-treat’ homes (off-gas, solid walls) more expensive
What’s the Green Deal?
The Green Deal offers:
• Low cost finance to improve energy efficiency
• Reduced upfront cost
• Loan attached to the electricity meter
• Costs recovered over time
You get a cosier, more energy efficient home, with
reduced upfront cost, with some protection against
future fuel price rises
The Golden Rule
Monthly bill savings from the measures installed
will be greater than repayments on the loan
What you need to know about the Golden Rule:
• Essential part of Green Deal
• Used to calculate the amount of Green Deal finance
that a householder can be offered
• Doesn’t work for all improvements
What is the ECO?
• ECO stands for Energy Company Obligation
• Helps where the Golden Rule doesn’t work
• Sits alongside Green Deal
• Replaces CERT and CESP
• Different strands of ECO
• Carbon Reduction targets
• Affordable Warmth targets
Energy efficiency
improvements
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Draught proofing
Hot water tank jacket
Heating controls
Loft insulation
Cavity wall insulation
Double glazing
New boiler
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Internal wall insulation
Floor insulation
External wall insulation
Solar thermal
Solar PV
Biomass boiler
The customer journey
Assessment
Finance
Installation
Repayment
Green Deal
Advisor visits
home
Green Deal
Provider offers
Green Deal Plan
Work carried
out by Green
Deal Installer
Cost of measures
paid back via
electricity bill
Report on
suitable
improvements
Customer
decides what
to install
Green Deal
Provider issues
new EPC
Green Deal
costs shown
separately
Rented properties
• The Green Deal will be available to tenants and
landlords as well as owner-occupiers
• Reduced upfront costs for landlord
• Landlord would require tenant’s consent to carry out
works as it will be the tenant who will foot the bill
• If the tenant pays the energy bills it will be the tenant
who will benefit from the measures
Non-domestic properties
• The Green Deal will be available to non domestic
properties as well as homes
• Includes business premises, community buildings,
village halls
• Basic process is the same as for homes
• Green Deal assessment is slightly different and may
cost more
• Energy Company Obligation doesn’t apply
Other options
www.cse.org.uk/advice
More information
www.planlocal.org.uk
www.assetskills.org
www.gov.uk/greendeal
www.greendealorb.co.uk
PlanLoCaL is a suite of materials
including films, a resource pack
and website to support
communities and groups that are
‘planning for low carbon living’.
www.planlocal.org.uk