Well.... See this :
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/7600-to-make-your-home-more-energy-efficient announced today, so they may not be rushing to make eco money available.
I could have this completely wrong, however I predicted this exact move in a meeting with a GDP this morning (scary !!) for what it's worth, here's my view:
The big one in this is EWI at 6k and 75%, that's a shed load of contribution and effectively means that for a mid terrace or a small end-terrace they only need to find 25% of the install - easy to bung on a Green Deal Finance Plan.
"For solid wall insulation 75% of the costs of installation up to a maximum of £6,000 can be claimed back by the customer. For the ‘two measures’ option 100% of the costs of installation to a maximum of £1,000 may be claimed back; for homemovers this maximum is £1500"
The big winners are going to be the landlords with old housing stock, - and at the small contribution now needed, the tenant won't mind.
Why have the govt done this - simples
1) The cashback scheme finishes at the end of June, and the system still hasn't taken off
2) Nearly all the Energy companies have met or are near to meeting their HHCRO targets for 2014/15 already, so no more free boilers (as per comments above).
3) The ECO funding that was supposed to have helped measures like this meet the Golden Rule, never materialised, and won't in the foreseeable future
4) There are elections looming and the don't want the Green Deal to become a (dead) White Elephant.
So the customer gets their GDAR for free, can choose a couple of measures and get up to £1.5k back, which is more than they could have got on the old cashback scheme.
So I can see boiler replacements costing the custard £1k again (You'll need to take off that the cost of the process fees)
Plus it now has a sensible timespan instead of a 3 month knee jerk kick start, so the likes of Mark Group, can put a marketing and sales strategy back together, and come next spring the Govt can announce great successes.
I see this as effectively replacing the Eco funding, give the big co's a couple of months to get up to speed, and it should then be a steady stream of work again.