Green Homes Scheme - invitation letter

Harry227

Just received a letter, addressed to the 'homeowner' from a private company called "Green Homes Scheme", the name of which sounds exactly like the Government's scheme.  The letter offers up to a £4000 grant to upgrade our current PVs from 250w to 450 w, which will apparently "not affect your FIT payments", with the upgrade providing an extra "10p per kw of generation in addition to your FIT payments".

We've no intention of changing anything, but we're curious if anyone else has received this letter, or similar.  Aside from a limitation of our inverter to deal with the greater generation, and also the local (very rural) pole mounted transformer - which previous took time to gain permission/confirmation from The National Grid, we've now less than 10 years remaining on our current agreement,  and finally we're also suspicious of unsolicited offers, being crusty ol' gits that we are!  

QrizB

Fails the sniff test and there are reports on other forums of it being a scam.

Eg. https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/scam.142183/

Edit to add:

On Trustpilot there's a suggestion that they are related to ESE Group, who were investigated by Trading Standards a few years ago. There's a thread about it somewhere.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.greenhomesscheme.com

Harry227

QrizB said:

Fails the sniff test and there are reports on other forums of it being a scam.

Eg. https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/scam.142183/

Edit to add:

On Trustpilot there's a suggestion that they are related to ESE Group, who were investigated by Trading Standards a few years ago. There's a thread about it somewhere.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.greenhomesscheme.com

Yes, our thoughts too.  And there is nowhere on the letter which refers to a Companies House listing, reg. no. or similar.  It's headign for the recycle bin (once we've removed our home address of course!).