Since the UK’s government flagship energy efficiency scheme “Green Deal” was launched officially at the end of this January, Green Deal providers have completed more than 1,800 assessments on homes.
Last week, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) released its figures which revealed that within a month, between the end of January until the end of February, a great amount of people used the Green Deal package in order to have their houses assessed.
According to the statement of Mr. Edward Davey (Energy and Climate Change Secretary), this represented an “excellent start” to the programme and that the UK government was mainly encouraged by the early adoption rates.
The Green Deal scheme enables households and businesses to adopt energy efficient measures at no upfront cost and then repay by using the savings that have been resulted through their energy bills.
However, even if the data showed a moderately high level of interest in the scheme, no figures have been published on the extent to which assessments are being transformed into full Green Deal finance packages.
Moreover, DECC’s figures show that 77 Green Deal assessor organisations and approximately 620 Green Deal advisers they employ, have been accredited to provide Green Deal services.
In addition, more than £26.9 million worth of contracts have been traded through the ECO (Energy Company Obligation) brokerage system, which enables companies to bid for lots of energy efficient improvement works funded directly by energy companies.
