Green Deal webchat this morning with Barking

[Gavin A]

well that's all my questions answered then, where do I sign?

 

[Worcester]

And when you get Press releases like this back in August

Green Deal Oversight Body
Multi service provider Gemserv will run the new Green Deal oversight body and will be responsible for the registration of assessors, installers and providers and monitoring compliance with the Code of Practice under the Government’s flagship energy efficiency programme.

Gemserv, with their partners REAL, has been chosen to provide these services on behalf of DECC for the next three years following an open competition. Both Gemserv and REAL currently operate the MCS scheme for DECC so are well acquainted with the challenges and requirements involved in operating a scheme of this nature.

The service will commence in early August ahead of the staged introduction of the Green Deal later in the year.

i.e. they went with the cheapest, and with the mess up over MCS, I have trouble seeing how they can possibly be considered fit to handle the Green Deal.

Something is going to go wrong big time and it's going to hit the national press and tv - maybe Labour are stroing it up for election time :banghead:

mmmm So In June they say 'later this year' and in November he says end January 2013 --- ah he meant this fiscal year (not).

I'm very frustrated, annoyed, concerned, dissapointed and seriously worried about how many people WILL be mis-sold, oversold, and generally ripped off with over priced (allowing for the finance fees), underdelivered solutions.

 

[SolarCity]

I'm very frustrated, annoyed, concerned, dissapointed and seriously worried about how many people WILL be mis-sold, oversold, and generally ripped off with over priced (allowing for the finance fees), underdelivered solutions.

This is my primary concern too. If it ends up going the same way as the solar market then 'Green Deal' will become synonymous with 'Con Artists'. These kind of things by their very nature lend themselves to mis-selling and the governing bodies have already demonstrated that they are powerless to prevent it.

 

[finchy]

My thoughts are the same too, I was open minded to consider the GD but none of my concerns of how this scheme can be managed have been addressed. It seems a disaster waiting to happen, if it hasn't already. When the Jo public realise that landlords whom wish to up date vast housing stocks for free at the expenses of the tenant, and hard up low earners will be sold overpriced systems that will never meet the expected savings. There will be trouble, the media love a scandal.