{"id":26274,"date":"2014-01-18T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-the-green-deal-turned-into-the-green-disaster\/"},"modified":"2016-09-16T19:41:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T12:41:25","slug":"how-the-green-deal-turned-into-the-green-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-the-green-deal-turned-into-the-green-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Green Deal turned into the green disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDogged by funding issues, IT problems and a lack of public support, the energy efficiency scheme has failed to take offIt would be, the climate minister said, the “biggest home improvement programme since the second world war” and “a massive economic and job opportunity”. But the Green Deal, launched in January last year as the government’s main way of encouraging householders to make their homes more energy efficient, has been more of a whimper than the “transformational” scheme that Greg Barker promised.While more than 100,000 people have signed up for the first stage of the deal \u2013 an assessment where an expert visits their property to see which energy-saving measures it would benefit from \u2013 a minuscule number have taken out the financing that makes the scheme unique. By the end of November, just 458 households had finished the process of having works such as new boilers and insulation installed, along with the loan that pays for the upfront cost. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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