Ecoskies

[Eco Deal]

I am trying the same but how did you get on with the FITNESS test did you submit it yet?

 

[SRE]

well MEP has done the course and hes going to be racking it in

That remains to be seen, no disprespect to MEP and I hope he makes it work but you, MCS Renewables and MEP are the only people I've had contact with who think there are opportunities as the Green Deal stands at the minute.

I'm at yet another meeting for Green Deal next week with the key companies in our area - not one of them has enough capital to fund the requirements of a GDP. It's not the upfront costs that are the issue it's the cashflow - and we've all been there with solar cashflow at the start, the companies I'm working with have turnovers in excess of £10 million and they haven't enough to cover what they need to make the margins viable - apart from which no-one thinks that the 7.5% interest proposed will be taken up by consumers.

Some years ago we tested out ashp using an Innovation Grant. Loads went wrong with them, manufacturers, installers, consumers and people marketing them all learned loads and with quite a bit of cash behind us to get things resolved they eventually got ashp's into the main market. The difference was there was a lot of cash behind the project to resolve teething issues - and there were a lot. I have no wish to waste my business reserves while the government messes about with yet another gung-ho project that they haven't a scooby about.

My stand for what it's worth is this: When we started solar we paid an arm and a leg for training (and it was really poor quality) and after 12 months of fitting the training courses were less than half price. The worst that can happen to us is that Green Deal takes off and we train at a reduced price when we're certain it's cost effective for us.