Green Deal Forum

From a DECC news release today: On the 8th March The Secretary of State announced that DECC would be investing £3m to train 'go-early' Green Deal assessors and to address pressing skills shortages in the insulation sector. Estimates suggest as many as 65,000 jobs could be created by the Green Deal, ...

The Government have said they want the Green Deal to benefit tenants as well as property owners but the way I see it, seeing as the landlord isn't the one paying the energy bills, or making the savings, what does he/she have to benefit? Depends. My 'patch' includes lots of solid stone walled houses...

You need to understand the GD system: - a GD Advisor carries out the 'independent' EPC/assessment and recommends measures that will meet the 'golden rule'; - a GD Provider offers the householder a package of GD measures and the associated finance; - one or more GD Installers install the chosen GD me...

I think the GD assessment will be entirely non-independent. The public would like independent assessment but they want someone else to pay for it, not them. Add in the power of TV advertising and I think the overwhelming majority of GD assessments will be by GDA-qualified sales people, so paid for b...