Anybody else see Paxman interview Ed Davey, BBC iPlayer - Newsnight: 27/11/2013 (starts at about 14 mins) kinda got a real I told you so feeling watching it, 100,000 assessments 1000 GDF applications (allegedly) 219 completed on GDF, yet he claims over 80,000 have had measures done!!!! -...
The ECA responds to Climate Change Minister Greg Barker’s claims that around 300,000 measures had been installed through energy efficiency schemes to the end of September.
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Been following a couple threads on here and have educated myself with certain responses. So the big question is apart from the big six who else can provide electricity at a good rate? I am with edf and would not mind switching. Anybody got any hidden gems they would share?
There are a number of people that I know (installers of various types) that see - 1 year after it unofficially started, that it might actually get a bit of momentun now the colder weather is coming. (along with the fact that the Government already claims 244,000 technolgies installed to date...
The RCD trips when either the down or up switch for the stairs lighting is pressed.
. I think the circuit is wired from the bottom switch to the top switch, then to the up stairs light....no neutrals in sight, so i suspect the neutral is from the up light circuit. but the live an earth is from...
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"Becoming Green" a South Wales based business have just been featured heavily on 'Rip off Britain' on miss-selling the green deal,
The programme indirectly did quite a good job of promoting the benefits of the Green Deal process and what it could offer.
Most importantly what it did was to...
Paul Reeve, Director of Business Services at the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA) says: “The Energy and Climate Change Committee’s report into the Green Deal issued yesterday (22 May) is a wake-up call to Government, which must keep on top of Green Deal performance if it is to prevent...
Sad news - the administrators were brought into Enact last week.
I've seen the rise and rise of Enact since the 90's. I've seen them manage multi-million pound energy efficiency schemes at the same time I was doing it in the North and they were pretty good at it. Who knows if it was the...
Just a quick update and some good info for NICEIC approved electricians.
We have now got our QMS in order and our inspection has been moved forward to Next Friday 31st May.
They are coming to approve us for Gas Boiler & heating controls.
Some really good news is that we will get assessed for...
For those of you that missed it, A bunkc opf Door to Door Con artisists have been targetting people in South East Wales and West Yorkshire, chargeing them for fraudulent Green Deal Assesements.
They've been promising up to £10,000 of insulation etc for free in exchange for paid for 'surveys'...
Sorry. Being a thick head. Got a super deal meter that was running a cu and seperate cu to storage heaters. main cu is fed from a 60amp main switch via the usual 100a main fuse to the meter and from the switch via 10mm cable. The load to the main cu is just in after diversity. Its a big old 5...
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