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VIDEO: 'Green Deal' loans to help warm homes
2013-01-28 08:46:20| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Householders are to be offered long-term loans to help make their homes more energy efficient and cut bills under a new government scheme.
United Kingdom: Green deal: the secrets of a 'warm and cosy' eco-house
2013-01-28 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: When Nigel Robinsons parents built their home on a leafy hillside in north Brighton, it was 1958, a time of low-energy costs, and the environment came rather low down on peoples to worry about list. Yet Nigels mother liked to be warm, so when his parents designed their home, Peggy Robinson insisted that all the large rooms in the house were south-facing, with large windows, to maximise solar gain. Nigel and his wife, Sally, eventually inherited his parents home, and following a few years...
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United Kingdom: Green Deal launches amid criticism over interest rates
2013-01-28 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The government's flagship Green Deal programme to transform the energy efficiency of the UK's building stock officially launches today, promising to allow households and businesses to undertake wide-ranging property improvements at no upfront cost. But businesses have warned the scheme will have to overcome a series of teething problems if it is to have the transformational impact ministers are predicting. Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey last week promised the "world first" programme...
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Green Deal loans scheme to launch
2013-01-28 05:44:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The government launches its Green Deal, with householders offered long-term loans to make their homes more energy efficient and cut bills.
The Green Deal is a good deal, but it could have been a great deal
2013-01-28 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: First the caveats, the Green Deal could and should have been a lot better. The numerous flaws afflicting the scheme are well documented and should have been addressed by now. The month-long gap between the end of previous energy efficiency schemes and the launch of the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) led to entirely avoidable job losses. The transition from Warm Front to ECO continues to raise questions over whether fuel-poor households will really be better off. The axing of the...
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