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General: £100m boost for green homes

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    • CommentAuthorbiffvernon
    • CommentTimeNov 19th 2007
     
    Following speeches by Brown and Benn today, there seems to be something in the air. Any guesses as to how this will pan out?

    http://www.politics.co.uk/news/opinion-former-index/environment-and-rural-affairs/100m-boost-green-homes-$481722.htm

    "Announcing the Green Homes Service this morning, environment secretary Hilary Benn said: "When it comes to cutting your carbon footprint, the old adage 'there's no place like home' really is true.
    "We need to make this as easy as possible for people to do. There's a lot of help out there in the form of grants, advice, and other assistance, but it’s hard to know where to start."
    He said the new-look Energy Saving Trust would act as a one-stop shop to extend the use of renewable energy at home and improve efficiency.
    The government wants 150,000 homes to be generating their own renewable energy by 2011, but recognises householders will need government help to meet this goal.
    Mr Benn continued: "The Green Homes Service will cut through the confusion by providing a one stop shop, including a green MOT for your home and a green home makeover."
    Housing minister Yvette Cooper is also backing the initiative, which launches on April 1st 2008. "
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    Caught the tail-end of the lunchtime radio 4 prog re this, and it seems we are looking at roll-out (finance permitting) 'by 2011'. Is this just a 'new clothes' version of the once-proposed Sustainable Energy Centres, or is it something new and more centralised? Where is the place in the plan for the NGOs already providing this sort of in-depth advice (and far more) with no financial support at all (Gnash, Gnash!)? Where was the consultation? What is partnership?

    Nick
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      CommentAuthorted
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2007 edited
     
    Posted By: biffvernonHousing minister Yvette Cooper is also backing the initiative, which launches on April 1st 2008. "


    Well that's OK then. It's not like we're in a rush or anything.
    • CommentAuthorTuna
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2007
     
    "The government wants 150,000 homes to be generating their own renewable energy by 2011"

    And how many currently generate their own renewable energy? How many committed greens and self-builders can say that their houses are going to be run entirely on renewables?

    Having looked at the 'state of the art', and allowing for local planning requirements in a normal domestic setting, I have very little hope of our house being powered by renewable energy. If we are lucky it'll be completed sometime in 2009, only a couple of years before the government's target. Where, then are these 150,000 homes going to come from? This is either hopelessly optimistic, or the government are relying on statistical tricks and fudging the books to meet these lofty goals.
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    Why does HMG insist on calling spending "investment"? What they are talking about here is leasing some offices, employing some staff with a half decent marketing budget. I don't see any capital goods being created there. As an accountant, this annoys me. This will be more taxpayers money down the pan.

    If they has set up a state owned company with seed capital of £100m to go out and get some offshore wind farms built, that would be investment and it would pay dividends for the the tax payer over the next 20 years.

    Until the economics of energy are changed to make it worth reducing consumption and investing in renewables, for example by intoducing TEQs, no amount of money thrown at advice centres will change behaviour because there will no incentive to take any of this advice.
    • CommentAuthortony
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2007
     
    Tuna asked," Where, then are these 150,000 homes going to come from?" I m hoping to build one which will have zero heating requirements.

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