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22 organisations have met with Climate Change Minister Greg Barker to sign an agreement with government to work to become the first Green Deal providers.
The Green Deal is the government’s plan to improve the nation’s draughty homes at no upfront cost to the consumer.
The organisations who have signed today’s agreement at DECC include big business, SMEs and a community group. Green Deal providers will be offering energy efficiency packages to consumers when the scheme launches later this year.
The Government will be working with the pioneers to ensure the move from testing into a managed launch in October works seamlessly and provides a good customer experience from day one.
Greg Barker said:
“The signing of this agreement between government and business pioneers represents a watershed moment in the development of the Green Deal.
“The commitment shown today highlights the opportunity organisations see in the Green Deal from community groups, SMEs to big business which only bodes well for the scheme’s future success.
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) is a mandatory UK-wide trading scheme introduced in April 2010 which targets emissions from large public and private sector organisations. It is designed to drive emissions reductions in the target sectors by incentivising the uptake of cost-effective energy efficiency opportunities through the application of financial and reputational drivers.
This consultation is being undertaken as a result of a broader simplification review and engagement with stakeholders. This consultation document builds on the vision set out in June 2011 and sets out specific proposals to simplify the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme. These proposals take into account feedback from stakeholders on the June publication, feedback from the administrative burden survey and analysis of participant data from reports collected in July 2011.
The consultation document includes proposals which aim to streamline and simplify the scheme to create a new leaner, simplified and refocused CRC. The simplified CRC will deliver its energy efficiency and carbon reduction objectives whilst making compliance easier and less burdensome for participants.
Government is seeking views and evidence from all interested parties.
Shropshire Council’s Cabinet approved a plan this week to install up to 30 solar photovoltaic (PV) installations on council owned buildings.
Councillors approved the £2.5 million investment which would produce 3,200 to 39,600 kilowatt hours of electricity each year, and generate annual income for the council under the ‘feed-in tariff’ (FIT) scheme.
For the council this will also achieve a reduction in its carbon emissions footprint, further saving on its ‘carbon tax’ liability under the CRC Energy Efficiency scheme, a Government initiative aimed at improving energy efficiency and cutting emissions in large public and private sector organisations. If all of the proposed schemes gain planning consent and Distribution Network Operators approval, they could cumulatively save 500 tonnes CO2 annually.
The Government had proposed dropping the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) payment by 50%, ie from 43.3 pence per kilowatt hour to 21 pence per kilowatt hour for 4 kilowatt power systems, with effect from 12 December 2011. That proposal has been ruled unlawful by the courts, but it is still expected to be introduced in the near future when the scheme is reviewed again.
Climate Change Minister Greg Barker has launched a partnership to ensure the UK has the right skills to implement the Green Deal, the Government’s flagship policy to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. The Green Deal aims to enable private firms to offer consumers energy improvements to their homes, communities and businesses at no upfront cost and recoup payments as a change in instalments on the energy bill.
The Green Deal Skills Alliance (GDSA) is working to create new training and accreditation for the energy assessment, advice and installation workforce — the people who will carry out the improvements. The GDSA is made up of three Sector Skills Councils — Asset Skills, Construction Skills and SummitSkills.
During the consultation on the Green Deal by the Department of Energy & Climate Change, which closed on 18 January, concerns were expressed about ensuring its effectiveness.
The Royal Institute for British Architects raised concerns that significant obstacles need to be resolved for the scheme to work in practice. In its response to the consultation, RIBA stressed the need for an integrated approach to the installation of energy-efficiency measures, which will require Green Deal project managers.
RIBA also believes that Green Deal funding must be delivered in ways to maximise initial take-up and that create solutions to incentivise long-term take-up. The institute also stresses the need for performance targets and monitoring, particularly around carbon emissions, to ensure it delivers.
2012 is set to be a monumental year for Britain. Of course we are looking forward to the diamond jubilee and the Olympics, but it’s also the year in which we’ll launch the pioneering green deal, unleashing real competitive forces in the energy efficiency market.
Attracting more investment than ever before, the green deal will be the biggest home energy improvement programme of modern times, to tackle our draughty and expensive-to-heat housing stock.
In a world of increasing prices, market volatility and reliance on imports, we simply cannot afford to be wasteful with energy. Our homes are among the most inefficient in Europe and up to 4.1m households live in fuel poverty in England alone.
The time has come for a radical new approach to home energy improvement, moving away from pepper potting individual measures to whole house or property solutions.
On Tuesday we’re launching a YouTube video to explain the massive opportunity the green deal presents to industry and to businesses and people managing their energy bills. The vision is an ambitious and far-reaching one, putting the consumer in charge, with nationwide brands, small local businesses and community organisations competing to deliver the best offers. Competing not just on price but on quality and service and all underpinned by the highest standards.
Social landlords look set to be excluded from the bulk of a £1.3 billion a year fund to improve energy efficiency and target fuel poverty.
In a consultation on the green deal and energy company obligation issued today the Department of Energy and Climate Change confirms fears that the sector will lose out when ECO begins next October.
The green deal energy efficiency scheme, which will launch at the same time, will see households offered efficiency improvements to their home at no upfront cost. The cost will be repaid over 25 years using savings from fuel bills, and the amount that can be repaid must be less than the fuel saving.
Using ECO subsidy alongside the green deal will allow providers to offer more expensive ways of improving energy efficiency, but social landlords will struggle to access this funding.
As reported in Inside Housing last month, ECO will be split into two pots – one to fund hard-to-treat homes, and one for ‘affordable warmth’.
New analysis by strategic energy consultants Element Energy, commissioned by Friends of the Earth and the Cut Don’t Kill campaign has revealed that the Government’s planned cut to the Solar PV Feed-in Tariff will destroy up to 29,000 jobs and cause the Treasury to lose up to £230 million a year in tax income.
The research highlights the remarkable fact that this cut will cause the Government to lose sizeable amounts of money through reduced income taxes and National Insurance. Campaigners have described the cut as “utterly counterproductive”.
The estimated current income for the Treasury from employment taxes and VAT alone from the Solar PV sector is £275m – a figure which is even higher once corporation tax and indirect spending are taken into account. The proposal to cut the Feed-in Tariff from 43.3p per kiloWatt hour to 21p per kWh has been billed by Climate Change Minister Greg Barker as a money-saving measure, but Element’s new analysis demonstrates that in fact it would be a costly loss to the Government through reduced tax revenues.