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• Offering a Green Deal Plan to customers, based on recommendations from a licensed assessor 
• Ensuring that the energy efficiency work is carried out by an authorised Green Deal installer
• On-going obligations in relation to Green Deal plans, including dealing with customer complaints, guarantees and warrantees.

Setting up a Green Deal... 

Once the customer has made an enquiry, a Green Deal Assessor will visit the property and provide recommendations on measures that would suit the property. The Assessment may be undertaken by an independent assessor or appointed by the Green Deal Provider.

Following assessment, the Green Deal Provider will offer the customer a quote for installation of some or all of the measures, and then assuming that this is accepted, a Green Deal Plan will be created. Once a Green Deal Plan has been agreed between a customer and a Green Deal Provider, the Provider will arrange for the installation of the measures, and once completed repayments can begin via the energy bill.

What measure will be available in the Green Deal?

The list of measures in RdSAP has been used to create the list of qualifying Green Deal energy improvements for domestic properties. Being modelled in RdSAP also means the measure can be recommended by Green Deal assessors. 

• Air source heat pumps                                            
• Internal wall insulation
• Biomass boilers
• Lighting systems fittings and controls
• Biomass room heater (with radiators)
• Loft or rafter insulation and loft hatch insulation
• Cavity wall insulation
• Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery
• Cylinder thermostats
• Micro combined heat and power
• Draught proofing
• Micro wind generation
• Energy efficient glazing
• Oil-fired condensing boilers
• External wall insulation
• Photovoltaics
• Fan-assisted replacement storage heaters
• Roof insulation
• Flue gas heat recovery devices
• Room in roof insulation
• Ground source heat pumps
• Solar water heating
• High efficiency replacement warm-air units
• Under-floor heating
• High thermal performance external doors
• Under-floor insulation
• Hot water cylinder insulation
• Waste water heat recovery devices attached to showers

The Simplified Building Energy Model (SBEM) will form the basis for the assessment of non-domestic properties and assessors have much greater flexibility to recommend appropriate measures to reflect the wider range of non-domestic building types. The consultation proposed that new measures can become Green Deal Eligible by going through the‘Appendix Q’ process of SAP. Measures must have been recommended during the Green Deal Assessment by the assessor in order to be installed using relevant finance to ensure the measures installed are appropriate for the building in question. Where a package includes a measure which is particularly cost-effective, the Green Deal Provider may be able to rely on the savings likely to be generated by that improvement to finance some slightly less cost- effective improvements under the Green Deal Plan which would otherwise have required top up finance from another source.

Energy Company Obligation (ECO)

The ECO is due to replace the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) and Community Energy Savings Programme which has been the major vehicle for energy efficiency delivery over the past four years. The Government anticipates that delivering on its targets for ECO will require an annualised investment by energy suppliers of ~£1.3bn, and that the ECO will last for 10 years. The £1.3bn funding pot will be financed via energy bills and divided between the two targets below: 75% to Carbon Saving and 5% to Affordable Warmth.