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

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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

Advice Finance Installation Repayments

4) Householder signs up to package of measures financed by Green Deal

5) Green Deal provider arranges for an installer to visit and carry out work

5) Accredited installer carries out improvements to the property

6) Installer and consumer confirm work carried out as agreed.

7)EPC updated to reflect the improvements

7) GD Provider notifies energy company

8) Payments collected through energy bills

9) Charge ends once repayments complete

Although the customer journey will not always be the same, there are four predominant key steps…

Energy-saving improvements

Loft insulation

Cavity wall insulation

Solid wall insulation

Draught proofing

Boilers

Creating energy

Creating demand

• Energy Company Obligation (ECO)

• Impartial advice service

• £200 million in incentives

• Minimum energy standards for rental properties

• Media

• Consumer and participant information

• Working with key stakeholders

• Building awareness of the Green Deal Approved quality mark

Creating demand

• Under the Energy Company Obligation (ECO), energy providers are expected to deliver £1.3 billion in assistance every year.

•Internal and external solid wall insulation

•Hard to treat cavity wall insulation

Everyone(Carbon Saving)

•All of the above

•Loft insulation

•Cavity wall insulation

The most deprived communities(Carbon Saving Communities)

•All of the above

•Heating improvements, like new boilers

Those on benefits and low incomes(Affordable Warmth)

Next steps

• 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.

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Action taken includes• 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

gov.uk/Green-Deal