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Explaining the Green Deal

Explaining the Green Deal. Your name and group. Slides from the Centre for Sustainable Energy www.cse.org.uk | www.planlocal.org.uk. Why Green Deal?. 1 - Improving the housing stock Most homes in the UK have low energy efficiency ratings 26 million homes in Scotland, England and Wales

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Explaining the Green Deal

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  1. Explaining the Green Deal Your name and group Slides from the Centre for Sustainable Energy www.cse.org.uk | www.planlocal.org.uk

  2. Why Green Deal? 1 - Improving the housing stock • Most homes in the UK have low energy efficiency ratings • 26 million homes in Scotland, England and Wales 2 - Carbon reduction • UK Climate Change Act (2008) and EU targets • 27% of total UK carbon emissions from housing sector • About 80% of carbon emissions from our homes are from space and water heating

  3. Why Green Deal? 3 - Fuel poverty • Millions of homes in the UK are in fuel poverty • Moving from SAP band ‘D’ to ‘B’ is likely to halve your bills 4 - Cost effectiveness • Estimated £85 billion to retrofit UK homes • About 60% of lofts and cavity walls already done • ‘Hard-to-treat’ homes (off-gas, solid walls) more expensive

  4. What’s the Green Deal? The Green Deal offers: • Low cost finance to improve energy efficiency • Reduced upfront cost • Loan attached to the electricity meter • Costs recovered over time You get a cosier, more energy efficient home, with reduced upfront cost, with some protection against future fuel price rises

  5. The Golden Rule What you need to know about the Golden Rule: • Essential part of Green Deal • Used to calculate the amount of Green Deal finance that a householder can be offered • Doesn’t work for all improvements Monthly bill savings from the measures installed will be greater than repayments on the loan

  6. What is the ECO? • ECO stands for Energy Company Obligation • Helps where the Golden Rule doesn’t work • Sits alongside Green Deal • Replaces CERT and CESP • Different strands of ECO • Carbon Reduction targets • Affordable Warmth targets

  7. Energy efficiency improvements Internal wall insulation Floor insulation External wall insulation Solar thermal Solar PV Biomass boiler • Draught proofing • Hot water tank jacket • Heating controls • Loft insulation • Cavity wall insulation • Double glazing • New boiler

  8. The customer journey

  9. Rented properties • The Green Deal will be available to tenants and landlords as well as owner-occupiers • Reduced upfront costs for landlord • Landlord would require tenant’s consent to carry out works as it will be the tenant who will foot the bill • If the tenant pays the energy bills it will be the tenant who will benefit from the measures

  10. Non-domestic properties • The Green Deal will be available to non domestic properties as well as homes • Includes business premises, community buildings, village halls • Basic process is the same as for homes • Green Deal assessment is slightly different and may cost more • Energy Company Obligation doesn’t apply

  11. Other options www.cse.org.uk/advice

  12. www.planlocal.org.uk www.assetskills.org www.gov.uk/greendeal www.greendealorb.co.uk More information

  13. PlanLoCaL is a suite of materials including films, a resource pack and website to support communities and groups that are ‘planning for low carbon living’. www.planlocal.org.uk

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