Social Housing and the Green Deal

Greg Barker, Minister for Energy and Climate Change, visited a Green Deal retrofit at the Lakes Estate in Milton Keynes to launch the Home Energy Conservation Act (HECA)

Local Authorities and the Green Deal

What benefits will the Green Deal offer to local authorities and their communities?

Millions still available for social landlord projects

The Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) social landlords competition is being reopened, with millions of pounds still available for social landlords to fund low carbon heating into the homes of hundreds of social housing tenants.

Householders can choose which green deal measures they want fitted

,Consumers can choose themselves which measures they would like for their homes, however, an assessment will then be undertaken to see if the measure is necessary and it will save the household energy in the long run.

Government prepares £2m Green Deal publicity campaign

The government looks set to undertake a partial U-turn and launch a national communications campaign to promote its new Green Deal energy efficiency scheme when it launches in the autumn.

The Green Deal

• The Green Deal is about establishing a framework to enable private firms to offer consumers energy efficiency improvements to their homes and businesses at no upfront costs. The cost will be paid back through the energy bills and not...