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Green Deal Scheme, or Green Deal Scam?
The Green Deal scheme is about to be launched, this is the Government initiative to get us all to cut carbon output by installing more insulation and use alternative technologies to produce heat and power.
There are a couple of hurdles to overcome along the way. But this site believes that at the moment the Government is in pretty good shape. The initiative hasn’t even been launched you cry!! Needless to say there are those who say this scheme will fall flat on its face before its even started. But let us look at what we know to date:
- The pilot Green Deal scheme was a success, people were cautious in their expenditure and this could follow suit in October when the main scheme is launched.
- The Green Investment bank is opening its doors and will be able to lend at low rates beating the high street banks.
- The Government needs this to work. There is no major other job producing project running in October. The Olympics will be over and all those idle hands need work.
As the UK faces up to the bitter reality it must realise that the halcyon days of double digit growth are ancient history and now is the time of austerity and economy. But this is where the Green Deal scheme can succeed, all the new technology needs research and development and of course a large amount of installation and maintainece.
We can look forward to two things this summer; one is the Olympics, which will show us how good team GB are on the track and field. The other will be how the Government can launch the Green Deal without a TV campaign? A self imposed ban was introduced by the coalition Government soon after taking office. Maybe this will help? A slower up take might allow all involved more room to polish the scheme to make it a roaring success!
How do you think the Green Deal Scheme will be received? Will you champion it or do you think it’s a massive waste of tax payers money? Comments below.
For those who have already insulated their attics, had insulation pumped into cavity walls, draught-proofed their property, and replaced all old windows and doors with uPVC, there’s not a lot more that can be achieved to reduce both energy loss and carbon ouput – other than, that is, by replacing old gas back-boilers, old central-heating boilers, and suchlike.
But what’s this I hear? Although it is possible to replace inefficient gas boilers by very efficient, energy-saving and carbon reducing condensing/combination boilers, such are not going to come under the Government’s Green Deal Initiative!
For the Green Deal Initiative to succeed, whilst I agree that it would be wonderful for private households to have space and the wherewithal to instal Biomass heaters, be facing the right direction for wind-turbines and PV cells, have large enough land to accommodate a ground source heat pump etc, one has to wonder about the logic behind a scheme which appears not to be aimed at those who live in terraced properties, or ‘small’ properties in Urban/Suburban areas.
Put another way, if an applicant lives in a large rural property which has lots of land, the Green Deal Initiative will indeed be a massive success for him/her, but for those without such privileges, I sincerely believe that for them, the items needed in order to fulfil the the Green Deal Initiative requirements will prove to be virtually impossible.
Surely whilst the Green Deal Initiative is an excellent idea, there should be wider scope in what can be provided under the scheme, so that the majority can benefit, rather than the privileged few?!
John, I can see your point and this is another Government initiative that could be aimed at the middle classes and importantly middle of the road voters. Lets see how this all plays out…