New Green Homes Grant to give up to £5,000 in vouchers for insulation and double-glazing

Reed_Richards

Their approach from the outset seems to have been to use every possible stalling tactic they could think of.  What was the point?  Did they think they were going to get to keep the money if it was not handed out in vouchers?

Aauk25

Reed_Richards said:

Their approach from the outset seems to have been to use every possible stalling tactic they could think of.  What was the point?  Did they think they were going to get to keep the money if it was not handed out in vouchers?

Probably told by the government to avoid paying out as much as possible as it was really a publicity stunt

JohnnyFish

These details have recently been published and give the impression that the scheme is finished with just 6742 vouchers being redeemed.

Well I still have mine but the installer is refusing to do the work (I thought by signing the order we had a contract and he has broken it.

The government’s Green Homes Grant Vouchers scheme approved 55 per cent of applications in period from September 2020 to end of March this year.

The scheme was launched last autumn to help people make their homes more energy efficient. But it was scrapped this year after running into troubles including a dearth of registered installers.

Figures for the scheme published by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial strategy show that applications by household totalled 113,725, of which 55 per cent have been approved.

The number of households to have an energy efficiency measure installed was 9,602.

This amounted to 166,924 vouchers applied for, of which 33 per cent have been issued.

The number of measures installed was 10,274 and vouchers paid 6,742.

The scheme allowed households to apply for vouchers to fund energy efficient improvements like cavity wall insulation and loft insulation. As well, low carbon heat sources such as heat pumps and biomass boilers, and secondary measures like hot water tank insulation or draught proofing.

The total number of insulation measures installed was 8,272, low carbon heat, 1,930 and secondary measures, 72.

Reed_Richards

Do you have statistics for how many installers have actually been paid the grant?  I'm sure some were deterred by the delay in getting paid.  

tek-monkey

Only 72 secondary measures?  Is that because they wait on your primary first?

brewerdave

Presumably they will have to launch something similar (but for very much bigger sums ) in a few years time IF they intend to replace GCH in homes. God help us if it is as badly handled as this scheme has !!!

Zanderman

brewerdave said:

Presumably they will have to launch something similar (but for very much bigger sums ) in a few years time IF they intend to replace GCH in homes. God help us if it is as badly handled as this scheme has !!!

I don't think anyone's proposing replace GCH in existing homes.  That would be a gargantuan task.

The proposal is stop installing GCH in new homes.  A different matter entirely.

Afourteen

Still chasing... Supplied them with the requested information 3 weeks ago. Wrote to them this week asking for an update. Reply inside 24 hours asking for yet more information; Apparently I've not supplied enough info about the rented property I've applied for a grant on.

I do wonder if the installer is still registered for Trustmark or even in business.

brewerdave

Zanderman said:

brewerdave said:

Presumably they will have to launch something similar (but for very much bigger sums ) in a few years time IF they intend to replace GCH in homes. God help us if it is as badly handled as this scheme has !!!

I don't think anyone's proposing replace GCH in existing homes.  That would be a gargantuan task.

The proposal is stop installing GCH in new homes.  A different matter entirely.

The initial intention is to stop installations. But at some future date (as I understand it) the proposal is to stop replacement gas boilers as well . That's when it will get very interesting................

Reed_Richards

I think the Government will simply introduce "green" taxation where the price of fossil fuels is gradually ramped-up through taxation to the point where they become economically unattractive.  They could also tax things that consume fossil fuels more heavily so that replacement gas boiler becomes a lot more expensive.