Green deal award accolade for Burnley College (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Green deal award accolade for Burnley College
11:50am Tuesday 7th August 2012 in News
BURNLEY College is celebrating becoming the Green Deal accredited training centre for the North West.
The Government initiative will aim to improve energy efficiency in homes and businesses.
Up to 100,000 Green Deal workers will require Energy Performance Certificates and Display Energy Certificates by 2015.
The college is now one of 10 training centres around the country which will offer a three-day training programme.
More than 40 people have signed up for the course which starts in October.
Mike Keoghan, director of skills at the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, met with college bosses and local energy companies to discuss the initiative.
John Shaw, head of construction at Burnley College, said: “We have worked in partnership with local and national green energy providers, including Worcester Bosch, Speakman Contractors, EcoSolartech and the Low Carbon Energy Company.
“This is to ensure our training programmes and facilities meet the skills needs of the industry and we are delighted that this has resulted in us being awarded a highly sought after national training accreditation."
brossen99 says...
12:41pm Tue 7 Aug 12
Everyone must be familiar with the Green Deal as proposed by the government in the alleged quest for energy efficiency, most addresses must have been cold called first from India and then with a recorded message even if like me you are theoretically on the Telephone Preference Service. It is alleged that insulating your loft and cavity walls plus double glazing can save you a fortune on your energy, however, consumer group Which has grave reservations about the assessments for the Energy Performance Certificate. It would appear that said assessments only take into account an average of an average and therefore it may be the case that after taking out the government backed LOAN they want you to, you may not actually save any money as a result of the works undertaken. There is also some question about the early payment clause, if in future you actually have the money available to pay off the loan early you will be hit by huge Bank charges. Most people who’s house has been upgraded since the mid 1980s will probably already have some loft insulation ( the biggest energy loss ) and most people have double glazing by now, cavity wall insulation can cause major damp problems. It would appear that the Green Deal has all the hallmarks of a stock market parasite investment scam to entice currently solvent people into taking out a loan against their house in the hope that their unfortunate victim will never be able to afford to pay it off. I suppose this particularly applies to pensioners who currently own their own home outright, who are income poor yet their only aim in life is to pass their property onto their children. Its all too easy to be enticed by the prospect of lower energy bills as already 15% inflated by Green Taxes and rising, yet your energy payment will simply be replaced by the repayment of the loan so that in actual fact many people could save precisely nothing, or in some cases pay out more every month.
The whole Green Deal is wide open to miss-selling and anyone even thinking about it should be wary of the snake oil salesmen likely to move in for a quick buck, I suggest that people should be very very wary of anyone claiming that they can save money by taking out a loan and going into debt, especially pensioners who may not be as sharp minded as they once were. If you are short on ready cash it is said that a good set of thick curtains are almost as good as double glazing at reducing heat loss through your windows !