Green Deal Consultation CAN members' views

[ALEO Admin]

On 23 November 2011 DECC opened their consultation on the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligations. The National Carbon Action Network will be submitting a response to this consultation and we would very much like you to post your opinions, comments and questions on this forum so that we can feed them into our response.

Separate threads have been set up for each of the consultation's chapters, within this forum, with an initial post listing the questions from each particular chapter of the consultation document. Alternatively if you have any general comments to make or you aren't sure which chapter your comments relate to, please post your comments in this thread.

DECC's official deadline is 18.01.12, but please post you comments on this forum as soon as possible so that we have time to incorporate them into our response. Alternatively, you can also email your comments to me at rob.leeson@can.uk.net.

From DECC website:

This Consultation seeks your views on the details of the Green Deal and ECO policies that are to be implemented in secondary legislation and under the energy licensing framework. We would like to hear from as wide a range of stakeholders as we can including, in particular, those organisations with an interest in operating within the framework and members of the general public including those who might be considering investing in energy efficiency.

The Energy Act 2011 made provisions for the development of a Green Deal and a new Energy Company Obligation (ECO) to replace the existing Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) and the Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP), which will both expire in 2012.

Green Deal is a market led framework that will allow individuals and businesses to make energy efficiency improvements to their buildings at no upfront cost. Central to the Green Deal is a finance mechanism that will allow access to the finance needed for the improvements with repayment, in instalments, attached to the electricity bill.

Underpinning the delivery of the Green Deal is the ECO. ECO will place one or more obligations on energy companies requiring them to generate a specific amount of credit by facilitating the installation of energy efficiency measures in homes in Great Britain before a set deadline. ECO has been designed to fit within the Green Deal framework and provide support, in the domestic sector, where Green Deal finance alone is not enough.

More information including the full consultation documentation is available at:
http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/c ... _deal.aspx.

Please post any comments you have for CAN's consultation response below.

Many thanks,
Rob Leeson
CAN National Secretariat