The Green Deal program aims to create 100,000 jobs by 2015 through energy efficiency upgrades to homes and businesses. It will commence in late 2012 and offer measures like insulation, efficient heating and lighting, and renewables. The program will target the 26.6 million homes in the UK, a large portion of which could benefit from upgrades like loft and cavity wall insulation. The Green Deal will follow a process where assessments identify eligible measures, financing covers installation costs, and repayments are made through energy bills over time. Quality control standards and accredited professionals will aim to ensure high quality installations.

1. CENTRE FOR WASTE
MANAGEMENT
Ross Fielding, Research Officer

2. GREEN DEAL or NO DEAL
 To commence late 2012
 To create 100,000 jobs by 2015
 Energy Efficiency Measures
 Insulation
 Efficient
heating or lighting
 Renewables
 For Businesses, Owner/occupiers, tenants or
landlords
 (Separate Funding for Social Housing)

3. GREEN DEAL – BIG PICTURE 1
 UK Housing Stock Total - 26.6m homes
 Owner/occupied 67%
 Private landlord 15%
 Local authority 9%
 Housing Association 9%
 (New dwelling completions in 2010 were 102,000
or only 0.4% of the total stock!)

4. GREEN DEAL BIG PICTURE 2
 23.3 million homes have lofts
 (but only 13.4m lofts insulated to 125mm) – so 10m
lofts still need upgrading!
 18.7m homes have Cavity Walls
 (butonly 10.9m homes have Cavity Wall Insulation) –
8m homes need CWI (though some may be DTT)
 7.9m homes have solid walls
 (estimate not more than 1m homes have had internal or
external cladding) – 6.9m still to go!

5. THE GREEN DEAL MEASURES
 Improvements that conserve or generate energy
 Eligibility criteria:
 Suitable for the property & not portable
 Create savings to “pay-back” the cost. The Golden
Rule: Savings MUST cover the Green Deal offered!
(installation & finance costs)
Government subsidies will support low income groups –
danger of Golden Rule Failures

6. DECC - QUOTED MEASURES
 Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, controls etc.
 Cavity wall injection, lofts, flat roofs, cladding of
solid walls, draught-proofing, insulation of tanks &
pipes
 Lighting fittings & controls
 Water heating, water efficient appliances, taps etc.
 Microgeneration - heat pumps, solar (thermal or
PV), biomass & CHP are all mentioned.

7. QUALITY CONTROL
 BSI Publicly Available Specification PAS 2030 for
retrofitting energy efficiency to domestic & non-
domestic buildings
 UKAS has been appointed to accredit assessors &
installers.
 Green Deal Providers must use accredited assessors
AND installers.
 New Green Deal Code

8. THE PROCESS
 1. Owner or tenant contacts Green Deal Provider.
 2. Assessor reports on cost/payback & confirms
meets “Golden Rule”.
 3. Green Deal Provider accepts report and makes
Green Deal Finance Offer.
 4. Client accepts Green Deal.
 5. Green Deal Provider appoints certified installer.
 6. Finance charges (not capital) paid through
energy bills to Green Deal Provider – up to 25 yrs

9. Back to the Future
 Some professional groups fear take-up will be poor
 Energy still too cheap!
 Holidays will still have priority over cavity walls!
 But under the Golden Rule there should be NO COST.
 The PQQ for Green Deal Advice expects over 750,000
enquiries per year.
 Also there is a precedent - this is not actually the
first Green Deal!

10. And Finally..........
The Devil will still undoubtedly
be in the detail – of which there
will be a great deal to come!