Bye Bye Green Deal

[Roger Welton]

Government closes down £120m Green Deal scheme as funds runs out | This is Money

Not overly surprising given the very low take up, just pleased I didn't spend a fortune getting acredited for it.

I look forward to the next great thing!

 

[REDSAW]

gvmt to cut subsidies for solar farms and wind farms.......way to go cons/lol

 

[Nostrum]

We binned it off in January when it came up for renewal, very glad we did now! Not surprised and it was the right decision.
Let's hope the industry finds a more suitable way to achieve the targets the Green Deal was supposed to meet!

 

[hammers4spanner]

Yep we can all wait for the next big thing where we have to pay thousands of pounds to fit gas boilers . Still think this green deal was a british gas thing in disguise

 

[Roger Welton]

Don't worry whatever the next scheme they come up with next will be as, if not more heavily weighted in favour of the big boys. This is the same whatever the colour of the rosettes they hide behind.

 

[SimonG]

Read the solar cut this morning. Bio mass looking good. Theres a big eta unit where im working at mo.

 

[hammers4spanner]

Don't know much about biomass however been hearing stories of never installed correct and dodgy buffer tanks ,.

 

[Ray Stafford]

I'll shed no tears for the green deal. A load of over-hyped tosh.

The best thing the government can do is forget all the subsidies, and just put the old age pension up to a decent level to keep the elderly out of fuel poverty, and use the regulatory system to drive energy efficiency.

Changes to building regs has acheived far more for energy efficiency than all the schemes put together. And they fall equally on large and small firms, so there is no built in advantage for the big boys.

 

[Ermintrude]

I hate green steal. But there will be 100 extra muppets on the hunt for work going in with 50p and a bag of sweets prices.

 

[Nostrum]

I'll shed no tears for the green deal. A load of over-hyped tosh.

The best thing the government can do is forget all the subsidies, and just put the old age pension up to a decent level to keep the elderly out of fuel poverty, and use the regulatory system to drive energy efficiency.

Changes to building regs has acheived far more for energy efficiency than all the schemes put together. And they fall equally on large and small firms, so there is no built in advantage for the big boys.

One of the biggest issues is improving the existing housing stock which is something the regulatory system cannot help with, unless they bring in retrospective regulation requirements which would be an impossible task.

I was thinking, could they not offer council tax relief to home improvers looking to make homes more efficient or something along those lines?

The big problem what that though is that landlords would t give a monkeys, although if we can dig ourselves out of a housing crisis, tenants could boycott the landlords with crap properties!