Flagship Green Deal branded 'failing'and 'flawed' by MPs

摘要

The Green Deal is "failing", "flawed", "inefficient" and has been "poorly implemented", MPs have said in a scathing report on the government's flagship retrofit scheme. In a report, published this week, the Energy and Climate Change Committee said the Green Deal had been a "disappointing failure" in its first 18 months and the carbon emission savings it had delivered had been "negligible". The scheme, which offers consumers loans to retrofit their properties with energy saving measures, was launched in January 2013. But take-up has been sluggish, with the most recent government figures showing that at the end of July just 1,815 Green Deal plans were completed - which means the work installed and the household paying back the cost through their energy bills. The MPs said: "The Green Deal has failed to live up to expectations: its planning was flawed, its funding inefficiently delivered, and its implementation has been poor. These problems have all been aggravated by poor communication."