Insulation Installations to Plummet Under Green Deal

The government’s own assessment of the Green Deal, its new green policy to make homes more energy efficient, suggests that it looks set to fail. The Department for Energy and Climate Change have estimated that once the scheme is launched in the autumn of this year installations of loft insulation will plummet by 83% and cavity walls by a similar amount. Only insulation of solid walls is expected to rise, due to government grants that will be available.

 

Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) statistics show that 10 million (43%) of all lofts require more insulation and that 8 million home with cavity walls (42%) have yet to be insulated.

 

Currently loft and cavity wall insulation can be installed in homes for free, or at a highly subsidised cost. This will end in December 2012. To find out more about offers in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire visit our Insulation Offers page.