Ann: UK market update , page-11

Some more fishing... CFU BLUE DEAL!
This is consistent with the announcement from:
http://www.ipoweruk.com/index.php/social-landlords
"Social Landlords
Many housing associations and local authorities have been looking at the scope for renewable heat and power and energy efficiency projects and trying to establish the best means of funding and structuring these projects. iPower’s approach is designed to meet the varying low carbon funding needs of social landlords and other organisations throughout the UK. iPower is a social enterprise and a majority of our profit is used to help combat fuel poverty and climate change.

We can deliver renewable heat or power projects with or without funding. Click Funding Options for more information.

We are also planning a pilot deployment of Fuel Cell MicroCHP during 2012 working with a limited number of housing associations. Fuel Cell MicroCHP offers scope for reducing tenant’s bills for both heat and power in homes with a gas supply. Click Fuel Cell CHP for more information.

As part of this programme iPower is running a seminar, in conjunction with our partners CFC Ltd, on the 24th October 2012 at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation. Entitled "Saving Energy through the Use of Fuel cells", the seminar will run from 9.30-12.30. The seminar is free but early registration is encouraged because of limited space. Contact [email protected] for further details."

No doubt the feature presentation will be the current installations with "Carbon Trust" etc

This may be very big apparently there is a "CFU Blue Deal" to combat issues with the UK Green Deal.
http://lnkd.in/WSVx3t
Refer:http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=3778358&type=member&item=170785928&commentID=97462802&qid=f74199cd-0c09-4b35-8a2d-9acea7c3998c&goback=%2Egmp_3778358%2Egde_3778358_member_161930205%2Egmp_3778358#commentID_97462802
Quote per LinkedIn: Paddy Thompson "The Green Deal is excellent in principle, fraught with problems in reality. That's why we've come up with our own "Blue Deal" where small businesses and registered social landlords can sign up with a social enterprise ESCO to benefit from guaranteed bill savings of at least 10%... This approach also avoids all the bureaucracy which comes along with the Green Deal. "

Also Ref:http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/oct/01/green-deal-energy-efficiency?goback=%2Egmp_3778358%2Egde_3778358_member_161930205%2Egmp_3778358%2Egde_3778358_member_170785928
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The green deal still has big gaps to plug

It aims to transform the energy efficiency of 14m draughty homes, cutting carbon and bills. But the cold wind of doubt remains strong

Half of the UK's carbon emissions are generated in producing heat for homes and industry.
As the evenings grow cooler, what better time to launch the biggest transformation of the nation's draughty housing stock ever attempted? The government's "green deal", which begins on Monday, aims to plug the gaps in 14m of Britain's leaky homes, making them cosier, cheaper to heat and producing less climate-heating carbon emissions. Yet severe doubts are swirling around the programme like a bitter winter wind, some even whipped up by the government's own analyses.

If the immediate prospects look bleak, Ed Davey, the secretary of state for energy and climate change, sees better weather ahead: "It will be a gradual roll out because it is a new market: we should be looking ahead two, three, four, five years." Perhaps ministers' desire to focus on the future is why the green deal launch is set to be quieter than mouse buried under three feet of insulation.

It does not lack for ambition being, not just new, but entirely uncharted territory. "It's an experiment that has never been tested before," said Oxford University's Jan Rosenow. "It may work, but there is a high chance it will not."

The current subsidies and legal obligations on energy companies to help people insulate their homes are being bulldozed away and a new approach, built on private-sector loans, is being developed on its foundations. The benefit of this is that it paves a way to accessing the many billions of pounds that will be needed to fund the country's great green transformation. The risk is, that if these private deals are not attractive enough to persuade millions of people to open their doors and lofts to the builders, the grand plan will crumble to rubble.

The winds of doubt have not had to search hard for gaps in the green deal to whistle through. The government's own impact assessment - even after revision - shows that loft and cavity insulations are set to plummet by 83% and 67% respectively after the green deal starts.

Andrew Warren, director of the Association for the Conservation of Energy, explains: "We are moving from a period where people were offered basic insulation at zero cost into a brave new world where you pay the full amount and a full interest rate on top."

This predicted collapse in the cheapest and most effective energy efficiency measures means that the carbon emissions savings from newly-insulated homes are also set to plunge by 75%, according to Rosenow. His new study, with colleague Nick Eyre, lists another serious concern: "The current proposals indicate that fewer resources will be directed to address fuel poverty than under existing policies, making eliminating fuel poverty even less plausible." Add to these the umpteen technical problems arising from setting up a new, national personal finance scheme and accrediting a whole new industry of supplier and installers and the uncertainty reaches gale force.

Yet ministers are not running for the storm shelters yet. They argue radical action was needed in order to deliver more expensive efficiency measures, such as solid-wall insulation, and argue that loft and cavity wall insulation now save money so quickly for homeowners that no subsidy should be needed.

So which way is the wind blowing for the green deal? Much will depend on the shelter afforded by government giveaways aimed at pulling in early adopters. This will involve £200m of cashback and ministers believe they can deliver council tax rebates too. Without good incentives, Rosenow said the take up will not be anywhere near the government's hopes and he doubts those revealed so far are enough to rescue the policy.

Warren acknowledges that the government's own data predict a "dire flop", but is more optimistic. If the right incentives are in place, it is a completely different picture, he said.

"In the long run the green deal is a model which really should work, though what does concern me is the transition," Warren said. "Ministers right across the government think this is a major policy and say they will make it work, and we've never had that before for energy efficiency."

But David Kennedy, chief executive of the government's official advisors, the Committee on climate change, has warned: "We think there is a significant risk in leaving it to the market, as that has never worked anywhere in the world and is unlikely to happen in the UK."

The green deal matters. If successful, it could deal with the severe and pressing problem of soaring energy bills and fuel poverty, while making a huge contribution to the UK's efforts to avert dangerous climate change. But will it work? The answer, for now, is blowing in the wind.
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