The Green Deal home energy efficiency improvement initiative kicks off in earnest today! More details appear in these NHIC pages. Announced by the government's DECC, basically this is a long-term loan scheme designed to help reduce household energy bills. The cost of...
The Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) framework has passed another milestone with secondary legislation approval by the House of Lords. So it also set for an October launch? Except, of course, householders and homeowners, who may be adopting the Green...
What is said to be 'a significant milestone' in the Green Deal/ECO process is the secondary legislation which has now passed through the House of Commons. The next stage is for it to go before the House on Lords later this month. It fits 'exactly' with the DECC...
Green Deal, the government-backed initiative aimed to reduced the majority of household carbon emissions at least by 2050, seems under seriod pressure at the present time, according to reports in today's newspapers. Apparently a group of senior Tory ministers is...
Twenty two organisations have met with Climate Change Minister Greg Barker 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...
Implications of the Green Deal were at the centre of an exclusive NHIC Members Forum when Charles Phillips, the DECC’s deputy director, lead this controversial debate. He described it as ‘a genuinely stimulating session’ in which he was ‘challenged’ by a ‘reasonably...
Chris Huhne’s recent departure as Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, might be a blessing in disguise for him, bearing in mind the somewhat fragile state of the government’s Green Deal initiative. Green Deal has the potential to play an important role...