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Green Deal Supply Chain Breakfast Briefing Skills for a Competent Green Deal Workforce

Green Deal Supply Chain Breakfast Briefing Skills for a Competent Green Deal Workforce. Wednesday 21 st November 2012. Energy Act 2011.

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Green Deal Supply Chain Breakfast Briefing Skills for a Competent Green Deal Workforce

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  1. Green Deal Supply Chain Breakfast BriefingSkills for a Competent Green Deal Workforce Wednesday 21st November 2012

  2. Energy Act 2011 • The Act creates a new financing framework to enable the provision of fixed improvements to the energy efficiency of households and non-domestic properties, funded by a charge on energy bills that avoids the need for consumers to pay upfront costs – The Green Deal • The Act amends existing powers in the Utilities Act 2000 to create a new Energy Company Obligation (ECO) that will work alongside the Green Deal finance offer by targeting appropriate measures at those households likely to need additional support – in particular those containing vulnerable people on low incomes and in hard-to-treat housing • Which measures are covered? • What does this mean for the sector?....

  3. Green Deal Measures Lighting • Lighting fittings • Lighting controls Water heating • Water efficient taps and showers Ultimately any measure which can improve the energy performance of a building and can pay for itself in fuel bill savings will be eligible. Measures subject to change and additions. Minimum Technical Competence requirements set out in Publicly Available Standard PAS2030:12 Heating, ventilation and air conditioning • Condensing boilers • Air source heat pumps • Ground source heat pumps • Heating controls • Heat exchanger/recovery systems • Mechanical ventilation (non-domestic) • Flue gas heat recovery devices • Solar PV/Solar Thermal Building fabric • Cavity wall insulation • Loft insulation • Flat roof insulation • Internal/External wall insulation • Draught proofing • Floor insulation • Heating system insulation (cylinder, pipes) • Energy efficient glazing and doors

  4. What is the Green Deal? • The Green Deal helps people pay for energy efficiency improvements through savings on their energy bills • Golden Rule - savings on bills will exceed the cost of the work • Intention to have over 14 million homes improved by 2020 • Expected to support up to 60,000 jobs in the insulation sector alone by 2015 • £200m Green Deal launch incentives funding • £7m loan to The Green Deal Finance Company to help ensure it is ready to offer finance to Green Deal Providers in early 2013 • October 2012 onwards – first approved assessors, installers and providers accredited and approved

  5. Green Deal Provider

  6. Green Deal Advisor

  7. Green Deal Installer

  8. Minimum Technical Competence

  9. Training & Qualifications • City & Guilds Domestic Energy Assessor / Green Deal Advisor • EAL / City & Guilds Awards - Installation & Maintenance of Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Heat Pumps, Biomass & Rainwater Harvesting systems • Environmental Technologies Systems Awareness (1 day) • NOS Based training – mapped to occupational standards and CPS • Aligned to MCS and PAS:2030 • Different routes to competence – includes “experienced worker” requiring top-up training and assessment only • Power training is future proof – meets existing and FUTURE criteria of MCS and Competent Person Schemes • National Skills Academy (NSA) Lead Hub – endorsed by industry • Accredited training – evidence of competence – Register of approved assessors and installers – full Green Deal approval

  10. Green Deal Approval

  11. Further Information www.decc.gov.uk/greendeal - Department for Energy & Climate Change www.greendealorb.co.uk – Oversight & Registration Body 0207 090 1031 www.powertrainingcentre.co.uk 0845 408 4024 vince.glover@carshalton.ac.uk Thank You

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