Transcript The Green Deal - Good Homes Alliance

The Green Deal
Charles Phillips, Deputy Director Green Deal
The Green Deal helps you make energy
saving improvements, like insulation, to keep
your home warm and cosy.
It lets you pay for some or all of the
improvements using the savings you can
expect on your electricity bill.
The Green Deal - customer journey
Although the customer journey will not always be the same, there are four predominant
key steps…
Advice
1) Consumer can seek
advice via telephone or
internet
2) Accredited advisor
visits property, carries
out assessment and
recommends measures
3) Consumer can shop
around
Finance
Installation
Repayments
4) Householder signs
up to package of
measures financed by
Green Deal
5) Accredited installer
carries out
improvements to the
property
7) GD Provider notifies
energy company
5) Green Deal provider
arranges for an
installer to visit and
carry out work
6) Installer and
consumer confirm
work carried out as
agreed.
8) Payments collected
through energy bills
9) Charge ends once
repayments complete
7)EPC updated to
reflect the
improvements
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Energy-saving improvements
Creating
energy
Loft
insulation
Draught
proofing
Cavity wall
insulation
Boilers
Solid wall
insulation
Creating demand
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Energy Company Obligation (ECO)
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Impartial advice service
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£200 million in incentives
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Minimum energy standards for rental properties
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Media
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Consumer and participant information
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Working with key stakeholders
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Building awareness of the Green Deal Approved quality mark
Creating demand
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Under the Energy Company Obligation (ECO), energy providers are
expected to deliver £1.3 billion in assistance every year.
Everyone
(Carbon Saving)
The most deprived
communities
(Carbon Saving
Communities)
Those on benefits
and low incomes
(Affordable Warmth)
• Internal and external solid wall
insulation
• Hard to treat cavity wall insulation
• All of the above
• Loft insulation
• Cavity wall insulation
• All of the above
• Heating improvements, like new boilers
Next steps
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October 2012:
– Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) framework
in place
– Green Deal Assessors can start to operate
– Go-early ECO operating
January 2013:
– Green Deal Approved Providers can start to offer Green Deal
Plans
– Incentives for early take up
– Number of providers expected to grow
– ECO fully operating
March 2013:
– First repayments can be collected
Green Deal and Traditional Buildings
• Green Deal can benefit many properties but
not a ‘one size fits all’ approach – need
sensitive retrofit for traditional buildings.
Action taken includes
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Green Deal older properties working group
Extra training for assessors – “know your limit”
Traditional building checklist for assessors
Code of practice requirements – Annex B for
vulnerable buildings - GDPs to “take particular care”
Construction Skills guidance for all installers on what
is required when dealing with older properties
Looking at moisture testing conventions – use of
dynamic models
Developing with STBA a “guidance tool” for GDPs
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