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Who is eligible for energy companies home installation schemes?
* OIops should have said insulation not installation in the header 
I am a bit confused about the Green Deal and the ECO (Energy Company Obligation) which as I understand it, requires the biggest energy companies to insulate the homes of pensioners and those on low salaries. The energy companies claim this adds £94 annually to household bills.
According to my daily paper, the Fuel Poverty Action Group has written to ministers warning them that any attempt to water down the scheme, will leave them vulnerable to a judicial review.
My brother is 65 and with his family (he married late), lives in a draughty house (which he is buying on a mortgage) in a windy part of East Anglia. Noone has contacted him, from government or the energy companies, to find out if he is eligible to get his house insulated (he uses gas to heat it). Currently he is still working, freelance, for a modest income but I assume the authorities aren't actually joined up enough to know that.
So I looked up ECO and it referred me to the Green Deal which chiefly seems to loans (for a new boiler etc), and complicated to assess. So who is administering the scheme, the government or the energy companies or a quango to whom the government passes the money extracted from the energy companies. And if it is only a loan why is it costing all consumers so much?
And what is the uptake? Is the government or the energy companies sitting on a stock pile of money. Or does it only apply to public sector housing? Anyone know the answers to these questions?
I am a bit confused about the Green Deal and the ECO (Energy Company Obligation) which as I understand it, requires the biggest energy companies to insulate the homes of pensioners and those on low salaries. The energy companies claim this adds £94 annually to household bills.
According to my daily paper, the Fuel Poverty Action Group has written to ministers warning them that any attempt to water down the scheme, will leave them vulnerable to a judicial review.
My brother is 65 and with his family (he married late), lives in a draughty house (which he is buying on a mortgage) in a windy part of East Anglia. Noone has contacted him, from government or the energy companies, to find out if he is eligible to get his house insulated (he uses gas to heat it). Currently he is still working, freelance, for a modest income but I assume the authorities aren't actually joined up enough to know that.
So I looked up ECO and it referred me to the Green Deal which chiefly seems to loans (for a new boiler etc), and complicated to assess. So who is administering the scheme, the government or the energy companies or a quango to whom the government passes the money extracted from the energy companies. And if it is only a loan why is it costing all consumers so much?
And what is the uptake? Is the government or the energy companies sitting on a stock pile of money. Or does it only apply to public sector housing? Anyone know the answers to these questions?
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