Green Deal for Microgen

[SRE]

Government's Green Deal may now support solar - Solar Power Portal

1st time microgen been directly mentioned with Green Deal - could be good news, then again - more paperwork!!!!

 

[Markc]

then again - more paperwork!!!!

Will need bigger office!

 

[TedM]

There will be a whole new setup for accredited 'advisers' under the Green Deal. I think it is mainly aimed at people who are already Domestic Energy Assessors. Installers will just need to be MCS.

Anyone should be entitled to the loans, as long as they are justified by the repayments being covered by the savings on energy bills.

See Green Deal to be best deal for consumers (press release) - Department of Energy and Climate Change

 

[PVFIT]

The model for microgeneration inclusion as part of the Green Deal has been trialled under a different name: Pay As You Save (Pay As You Save (PAYS) is an innovative finance solution that will give households the opportunity to invest in energy efficiency (such as solid wall insulation) and microgeneration technologies (such as solar panels) in their homes with no upfront c) which I'm pretty sure the Grean Deal will follow the same principles.

I was involved in developing the solar thermal offering with B&Q in the Sutton pilot. Solar thermal, even 2 years ago, would have been a goer with the Green Deal however the pilot was conducted on an area where all properties were solid wall meaning entire £10k budgets went on insulation - so take up on renewables was low, although participants did express interest in PV despite it being financially unviable at the time.

I'd be interested to see the return on investment via savings requirements, plus as TedM suggests it may well be worth exploring domestic energy assessor qualifications as the emphasise will be on energy efficiency first.