green deal overview

11/07/2012

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CENTRE FOR WASTE CENTRE FOR WASTE

MANAGEMENTMANAGEMENT

Ross Fielding, Research Officer

GREEN DEAL GREEN DEAL –– BIG PICTURE BIG PICTURE

UK Housing Stock - 26.6m homes

Owner/occupied 67%

Private landlord 15%

Local authority 9%

Housing Association 9%

(New dwelling completions currently below

100,000 – so house currently has to last 266 years!)

Business Premises 1.8m England & Wales

BIG PICTURE BIG PICTURE -- InsulationInsulation

23.3 million homes have lofts

(13.4m lofts insulated to 125mm – 10m lofts still to

upgrade)

18.7m homes have Cavity Walls

(10.9m homes have Cavity Wall Insulation – 8m

homes need CWI – some Difficult To Treat)

7.9m homes have solid walls

(estimated 1m homes have had internal or external

cladding – 6.9m need work)

GREEN DEAL GREEN DEAL –– Local CouncilsLocal Councils

All the Lancashire & Cumbrian Councils have been

cautiously watching progress of Green Deal.

Most concerned about fuel poverty and the

different ECO scheme where energy companies

fund heavily discounted works on older persons &

other low income homes.

But they are also watching Manchester Councils

who have been undertaking in-depth option

appraisals.

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GREEN DEAL GREEN DEAL –– AGMAAGMA

AGMA – Association of Greater Manchester

Authorities are much more advanced and Two

Models chosen for in depth study:

1. To act as a marketer/facilitator for a panel of

Green Deal Providers – low cost and no long term

financial risk, or

2. To become a large scale Green Deal Provider.

(Being considered by Birmingham & Newcastle)

This week ( Friday the 13th), they discuss option 2

GREEN DEAL GREEN DEAL -- AGMAAGMA

1.1 The Greater Manchester Green Deal Model:

Energy

Companies

Installers

Install and manage

Contract & payment

Producer

Delivery Partner

Lead Authority /

Finance vehicle

Benefits Green Deal Payments

Green Deal

+ FIT

payments

Assessors

Marketing

Fee

Referral

Delivery PartnerDelivery PartnerDelivery PartnerDelivery Partner

LA

Finance (Prudential

borrowing or reserves)

CS & AW

ECO

TGDFC

GREEN DEAL GREEN DEAL -- AGMAAGMA

Briefly:

Source finance for a Green Deal Loan Book

Offer to consumers to be Council branded

Set up a in-house producer organisation as a self-

sustaining business financed by referral income

A target of 15,000 homes over 3 years requiring

£75m loan funding ( presume mean £5k/home)

GREEN DEAL NEWSGREEN DEAL NEWS

DECC have announced:

£1m for training 1,000 early Green Deal Assessors

£2.5m with Construction Skills to train installers

and focussed on solid wall insulation

No need to hold surety bond against insolvency.

No need to provide independent conciliation

service

No need to provide warranties for entire repayment

period.

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GREEN DEAL INFO SOURCESGREEN DEAL INFO SOURCES


Published in April by a partnership

between: the Construction Products

Association and the Energy Efficiency

Partnership for Homes, which has now renamed

itself the Energy Efficiency Partnership for

Buildings (EEPB) and you can find this guide on

their website.

Guidance for assessors, installers,

manufacturers and contains advice for supply

chain with case studies on delivery methods


NEW Department of Energy & Climate Change

DRAFT GREEN DEAL CODE OF PRACTICE

For all Green Deal Participants and Certification

Bodies

To ensure fairness, transparency, good customer

service, adequate training and appropriate

redress mechanisms.

Use of Green Deal Quality Mark, Sales & Cold

Calling

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NEW: Department of Energy & Climate Change

“How the Green Deal will reflect the in-situ

performance of energy efficiency measures”

In situ performance compared to theoretical

Imperfect installations

Obstructions to insulating components

Natural variations in performance of elements

“Comfort –taking”

Incorrect operation

GREEN DEAL MEASURESGREEN DEAL MEASURES

DECC published in June list of measures eligible

under Green Deal and also which will also be

eligible under the different ECO schemes

Entitled: “Which energy efficiency improvements

qualify for Green Deal Finance?”

If you take it off the DECC website, either save it

or print in colour - because the eligibility table is

colour-coded and useless in black & white.