Green deal And ECO Training

1. Green deal And ECO Training

2. Agenda 09:30 Introductions and Overview 09:55 Understanding Green Deal 1 10:45 Refreshment Break 11:00 Understanding Green Deal 2 12:15 Lunch 13:00 Understanding ECO 1 14:30 Break 14:45 Understanding ECO 2 15:15 ECO Exercise 16:00 Summary

3. Learning Outcomes Cover units 1,4 and 5 of 6068-01 Awareness of energy efficiency Awareness of Green Deal and the Energy Company Obligation Understanding of how they work together Become familiar with the infrastructure that underpins Green Deal Be able to tell others how Green Deal and ECO works

4. What does Green Deal Mean to you?Would you consider a Green Deal Plan?5 mins

5. Understanding Green Deal

6. UK Energy Policy Security of Supply. • 30% of electricity from renewable sources by 2020 UK Competitiveness. Fuel poverty Cut GHG emissions by 50% by 2025 and 80% by 2050

7. Green Deal Created under the Energy Act 2011. Provides framework for householders and businesses to access energy saving measures at no up front cost. ‘the biggest home improvement programme since the Second World War’ Greg Barker, Minister of State

8. Who is it for?

9. Green Deal Objectives Provide accredited advice and recommendations to improve the energy efficiency of UK homes and businesses Improve the energy efficiency at no upfront cost To ensure that improvements will be executed to the highest standards To allow repayments to be made through electricity bills

10. Green Deal Golden Rule The expected financial savings must be equal to or greater than the costs attached to the energy bill, known as “the golden rule” of the Green Deal

11. Qualifying Measures

12. Qualifying Criteria The building must have an electricity meter supplied by a registered electricity company. Consent of the bill payer Fixed (not portable) measures PCDF –Product Characteristics Data File Golden Rule

13. Main Stages Unlocking consumer demand. Qualifying Assessment Developing the Green Deal Plan Installation Repayments

14. The Green Deal Process Assessment: Green Deal Advice Report Quote and Finance: Green Deal Plan Installation Repayment Green Deal Advice Organisation GreenDealProvider GreenDealInstaller ElectricitySupplier Green Deal Registration and Oversight Body OfGEM Office of Fair Trading

15. Getting an Assessment Green Deal Provider Green Deal Installer Tied Green Deal Advice Organisation Independent

16. A Green Deal Assessment Energy Performance Certificate + Occupancy Assessment = Green Deal Advice Report

17. SAP and RdSAP Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) is the UK Government's recommended method system for measuring the energy rating of residential dwellings Reduced Data SAP (RdSAP) is a simplified version of SAP used to produce Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) for UK residential dwellings

18. RdSAP Limitations Standard occupancy Standardised property types Assumed u-values So if your property deviates a lot from the standard then it will be less accurate

19. The Occupancy Assessment Number of occupants Heating system use Hot water use Use of appliances and cooking Fuel bills and tariffs

20. ‘In Use’ Factors The Performance gap Installation issues Comfort benefit Efficiency in use/control

21. Assessment Software

22. Consumer protection

23. Consumer Credit Act 1974 Content and form of agreements Method of calculating APR Procedures for default, early repayment and termination Right to withdraw Financial Services (Distance Marketing) Regulations

24. Financing Green Deal The Green Deal Finance Company Interest Rates New entrants?

25. Look for the logo! Only Green Deal Assessors, Providers and Installers can use it. Shows they meet Green Deal standards and are authorised to operate under the Green Deal.

26. Green Deal Code of Practice Sets out the criteria that Providers, Assessors and Installers must follow in order to operate under the Green Deal Approved banner.

27. Green Deal Cash Back first-come, first-served offer Householders can claim cash back from Government Packages could be worth over £1000 The more you do, the more you get. Available from 28 January 2013 for households in England and Wales.

28. Green Deal Cash Back

29. New Regulation for Landlords Energy Act 2011 Enables Government to regulate to help ensure the take up of cost effective energy efficiency improvements in the Private Rented Sector.  

30. Private Rented Sector The “Split incentive” problem Owner invests capital Retrofits reduce energy use Tenant receives the benefit

31. from April 2016 domestic landlords should not be able to unreasonably refuse requests from their tenants for consent to energy efficiency improvements, where financial support is available, such as the Green Deal and/or the Energy Company Obligation (ECO)

32. from April 2018 all private rented properties (domestic and non-domestic) should be brought up to a minimum energy efficiency standard rating, (likely to be set at EPC rating “E”) Or that they have installed the maximum package of measures under the Green Deal

33. 5 things landlords need to know the current electricity bill payer always pays the green Deal repayments your tenant needs your permission before taking out a green Deal. you need tenants’ permission before you take out a green Deal all improvements are quality assured new tenants need to be aware of the green Deal and acknowledge the repayments they need to make

34. Energy Saving Advice Service Free and impartial advice about the Green Deal, including: Getting a Green Deal Paying off your Green Deal through your electricity bill Moving into or out of a property with a Green Deal Complaints procedures, if things go wrong Identifying Green Deal Approved Assessors, Providers and Installers 0300 123 1234 www.direct.gov.uk/GreenDeal

35. Understanding the Energy Company Obligation

36. Energy Company Obligation CARBON EMISSIONS REDUCTION TARGET COMMUNITY ENERGY SAVING PROGRAMME

37. Energy Company Obligation ECO is entirely focussed on: the needs of the lower income and most vulnerable; and those properties needing the next most cost-effective measures that do not meet the Golden Rule – for example, solid wall insulation (SWI).

38. Green Deal and ECO Green Deal Finance ECO Subsidy Measures fully meets the Golden Rule The next most cost effective measures, combination of ECO subsidy and GD finance Measures providing affordable warmth to the vulnerable

39. Obligation Period The current ECO Obligation runs from 1 January 2013 to 31 March 2015 split into 3 phases: Phase One: 1 January 2013 to 31 March 2013 Phase Two: 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 Phase Three: 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015

40. ECO – Obligated Suppliers Only suppliers that have more than 250,000 domestic customers and provide over 400 gigawatts of electricity, or over 2000 gigawatts of gas, to domestic customers will be included in the scheme.

41. ECO targets Obligation split into three main targets: Carbon Emissions Reduction Obligation (CERO) Carbon Saving Community Obligation (CSCO) Home Heating Cost Reduction Obligation (HHCRO)

42. Carbon Emissions Reduction Obligation (CERO) 20.9 million lifetime tonnes of carbon dioxide Focusing on hard to treat homes and, in particular, measures that cannot be fully funded through the Green Deal as they do not meet the ‘golden rule’.

43. CERO Qualifying Measures *only eligible when delivered as part of a package with solid wall insulation or hard to treat cavity wall insulation

44. Carbon Saving Community Obligation (CSCO) 6.8 million lifetime tonnes of carbon dioxide Focusing on the provision of insulation measures to domestic energy users that live within an area of low income 15% of each supplier’s obligation must be achieved in rural areas

45. CSCO Qualifying Measures

46. Home Heating Cost Reduction Obligation (HHCRO) £4.2bn of cost savings Requires energy suppliers to provide measures which improve the ability of low income and vulnerable households (the ‘Affordable Warmth Group’) to affordably heat their homes

47. HHCRO Qualifying Measures

48. Examples

49. Refreshment Break15 Mins

50. activity session:Understanding green deal and ECO65 mins