The Green Homes Grant Scheme – Comprehensive Consumer Guide
The Green Homes Grant is back! In early July 2020, the UK Government announced another raft of funding to kick-off in September 2020, to help fund energy saving improvements to UK homes and public sector buildings. The £2billion scheme will…
Can I Get Free Loft Insulation?
If you’re anything like me then ‘free’ is one of your favourite words (along with ‘avocados’ and ‘half price Pinot Grigio’). So if you thought there wasn’t a way to make loft insulation exciting then you’ve obviously never prefixed it…
The Green Deal is back in 2017!
The Government’s flagship home improvement loan scheme, the Green Deal, has just been relaunched – but this time from the private sector. The first 3 loans have been issued according to Kilian Pender, the new Green Deal Finance Company chief…
Will the new Green Deal scrap the Golden Rule?
We wrote a few weeks ago saying that the Green Deal is going to be relaunched. First, though, there are a few issues to iron out. The main sticking point left over from the last Green Deal is the so-called…
Green Deal Finance Company Loan Book Sold?
In this article, we ask the question: do pay-as-you-save schemes have a future now there has been a demise in Green Deal Finance Company lending capabilities? Latest update on the Green Deal Finance Company Update: December 2016 – the services…
EcoBuild 2016
We visited EcoBuild 2016 this morning and the one thing that really stuck out was how small this the event had become. Last year it filled two sides of the Excel centre in London, but this year it was just…
Green Deal Communities Grant – Buckinghamshire, Ealing, Oxfordshire
UPDATE: As of 30 March 2016, the government has stopped funding and the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund is closed to new applications. You can read about it here. What is the Green Deal Communities Grant? The Green Deal Communities Grant programme…
Thoughts on Amber Rudd’s Energy Policy Speech – November 2015
Amber Rudd made a speech today, on a new direction for the energy policy of the UK. While some of it was good news (getting rid of coal power plants for example) we felt most of it seemed pretty short…
Why did the Green Deal fail?
The Green Deal was the Governments flagship energy saving program here in the UK. It ran for a couple of years and despite being simple in principle – the energy savings produced from installing a measure are used to cover the…
The Green Deal is finished
UPDATE: Please note if you have GDHIF vouchers already, they are unaffected. You have until the expiry date on the voucher to get the work done and claim your funding. Amber Rudd, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary announced today…