Green Deal has had a shaky start to it’s Nationwide campaign, failing to clearly define what customers will be signing up for, and making the Green Deal package far too complicated. With a monumentally bad start to the Green Deal campaign, governing bodies are quoting that the Green Deal is on the up and there are now more than 10,000 Green Deal packages have now been signed up and delivered on.
This is positive news to the Green Deal and Energy Companies Obligation (ECO) installers across the UK, who have had a torrid first 12 months. With many Green Deal Installers having to shut their doors, as energy companies placed a lot of pressure on the Government. Diluting the ECO targets by nearly 50% and increasing the amount of time the energy companies have to deliver their targets by.
Green Deal Installers (GDI) are set to lobby against the coming changes to ECO and feel that by diluting the targets by two more years, it allows energy companies to not focus on heating the UK’s housing stock, which is amongst the most leaky properties in Europe.
Pressure should be placed on the Energy Companies, to deliver their targets as and when they first were targeted to delivery, which will be 2015. The only targets that are due to be delivered by 2015, are CSCO and HHCRO. CERO targets have been diluted by two further years, which means that according to many within the industry that the profits made year on year by energy companies will be used to pay for the cost of ECO and yet customers bills will still increase.