Green Deal signals green light

Legal Framework for the Green Deal is now in place. The green light now signals to the industry that the market can get started.

This now means that Green Deal providers, assessors and installers can start to become authorised, display the Green Deal Quality Mark and put in place their systems for delivering assessments to consumers, however, the Green Deal Finance plan won’t be available for consumers untill 28th January 2013.

The Green Deal will remove the biggest barriers to demand for energy efficiency solutions, opening up the market for more participants and giving people more choice.

From Late January Green Deal providers will be able to offer Green Deal plans to consumers and begin delivering energy efficiency and heating measures.

The Green Deal will empower consumers by giving them new ways of funding home improvements, and empower businesses by enabling them to compete for energy efficiency opportunities in new and innovative ways. It will boost the low carbon economy by supporting up to 60,000 jobs in the insulation sector alone by 2015, up from around 26,000 today.

The Green Deal could see homes and businesses save enough energy to power one million homes by 2020.