Oct
27
The Green Deal for residential landlords
October 27, 2012 | Comments Off
The Green Deal helps you or your tenants make energy-saving home improvements, like insulation, to make your rental property more comfortable. The person responsible for paying the electricity will pay for some or all of the improvements over time through their electricity bill. Repayments will be no more than what a typical household should save [...]
Oct
27
Green Deal Cashback Scheme
October 27, 2012 | Comments Off
The Green Deal is a new initiative that will let homes and businesses pay for energy saving improvements, like insulation, through savings on their fuel bills. The Green Deal Cashback Scheme is a first-come, first-served offer where householders can claim cash back from Government on energy saving improvements like insulation, front doors, windows and boilers. [...]
Feb
3
Solar feed-in tariff cuts legally flawed
February 3, 2012 | Comments Off
The government has today suffered another blow to it’s proposed cuts to feed in tariffs. The popular feed-in tariff programme sees that people with solar panels in the UK are guaranteed a set price for electricity they generate and sell to the National Grid. The previous tariff was just above 43p per KWh, with new tariff [...]
Jan
1
Department of Energy and Climate Change — February 1st 2012
January 1, 2012 | Comments Off
The Department of Energy and Climate Change yesterday launched their consultation on changes to the Building Regulations regime in relation to the much hyped Green Deal. This includes a package of potential changes to support the Green Deal. In summary, this includes new requirements for additional ‘consequential’ energy efficiency improvements where work (such as an [...]
