''I have heard from a GD assessor that if I take a green deal my energy bill will be fixed and will not exceed what it is now for the length of my GD loan

Suddenly I am very keen to take up a small one simply to fix me energy costs!

Is this true and what are the caveats?''

AFAIK ***no!!!***

What he/she *may* have meant is that, all other things being equal for the term of the loan (which they are highly unlikely to be), your *heating* energy *consumption* ''will not exceed what it is now for the length of (your) GD loan''. That's plausible. There is, to my knowledge, absolutely nothing in the GD re fixing prices. They don't even fix the loan cost, let alone ongoing fuel costs.

How many have taken up the green deal so far?

I registered that I was interested over two months ago, no one contacted me yet

Was a bit on You and Yours about con men taking a survey fee of people today, so if that puts people off taking up the GD, then it is a good scam, can't always say that.
"Sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace"

The number of homeowners insulating their walls has crashed this year, according to new data that places fresh pressure on the government to make a success of its flagship energy efficiency Green Deal programme.

According to figures from the Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency (CIGA), the number of homes installing cavity wall insulation fell to just over 1,000 last month, compared to nearly 40,000 in April 2012.

http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2271183/green-deal-under-pressure-to-deliver-as-insulation-market-crashes

So there you have it, home insulation is dead!!

Colin, I would think somewhere between none and a few. Talking to installers the GD has effectively killed off CWI and loft insulation. What used to be done under CERT and CESP for almost nothing is priced at £500-600 under GD. Effectively the only CWI that's being done through 3rd party funding is that falling within the Affordable Warmth section of ECO

According to You and Yours (05/06/2013) Enact Energy has gone into administration because the change over from ECO to GD has not been very successful.
My one experience of Enact was when they were trying to set up with the big retailers to fit PV, and it was not a happy one.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b021431d

Could be, only had half an ear on it, good to hear that a Cornish company is leading the way.
So are the official figures on the DECC site now? they are about due

cant see how many green deals have been taken up

Posted By: CWattersHow hard can it be to count them?

Should that nor be 'how hard can it be to massage them'

We had an announcement about wind farm planning this morning. So GD is not that great, wind installation will be virtually impossible, Fracking is going to take ages, coal isn't allowed, the EU is now taking the problems of Biomass fuels seriously, we don't have a great potential for Hydro, Nuclear is going to take 15 year.
What shall we do for energy? Hardly seems worth saving any if there is none to go around.

<blockquote><cite>Posted By: SteamyTea</cite>we don't have a great potential for Hydro</blockquote>

maybe not down your way, but up here we have plenty potential, indeed a handfull of schemes across a few sizes are underway. of course not strictly being done in the spirit (or scale) of the orginal NOSHEB hydro schemes from back in the day, but never mind..... in the event of independance i'm sure we'll (probably have to!) sell you some :)

back on topic, i was rencent at a presentation in aberdeenshire about this very thing, and this presentation is probably well worth a read regarding the "attractiveness" of GD as it stands

http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/support/nick-heath.pdf

fair point, although we do have extensive previous for steamrollering all the issues you describe when needs must, there was quite a big uproar about the original schemes, but they still (eventually) went ahead. if having no electricity was a powerful incentive in the 1940's, doubtless it may be again the 2040s?

certainly in rural areas up here (which was what that conference was about) HTT is a fairly sizable proportion, complicated by the majority of the being off gas network (mix of oil/lpg and electric storage), so no easy boiler upgrade fixes. solid granite walls with coombed ceilings (so no cavity or loft insulation) is also pretty much the norm in almost all traditional (pre-1919) houses, and a sizable number of pre-WW2 ones as well. so for a lot of rural scotland, all the "easy" fixes are off the menu, and the green deal economics mostly don't stack up for the rest (edit:even with ECO).

certainly from my own coombed and solid walled perspecitve (albeit on gas network) i wouldn't touch it with a bargepole, rather get a conventional loan and do the work myself, thus maximising the percentage of actual efficiency measures, and elimiating the percentage going to accreditation bodies (which is considerable, and often overlooked) and middlemen. there's also pretty substantial potential liabilities and long term damage arising from poorly trained/inexperienced assessors, who may not grasp the full extent of likely issues with retrofit (interstial condensation, inadequate permeability of fabric, ventilation etc etc etc). and don't get me started on rdSAP.....

i'd guess that's a fairly common GBF view? the layman might say different though i suppose.

The Government’s flagship Green Deal scheme is making “painfully slow” progress, with just 12 homes installing energy saving measures since its launch in January.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said 71,210 households had been assessed for Green Deal measures such as solar panels and insulation at the end of August, up from 58,124 in July.

But only 677 households have gone to the next stage and said they would like to proceed with the scheme. Of these, 12 houses have had measures installed, while 293 properties had quotes accepted on work and 372 properties had installations "pending".

The figures also showed the number of homes assessed for energy-saving measures fell in August. There were 13,086 properties assessed during the month, a 4pc fall from July.

Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker said: “It is still early days for the new Green Deal market but encouragingly over 71,000 Green Deal assessments have now been completed.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/household-bills/10321339/Just-12-homes-get-Green-Deal-energy-savers.html?goback=.gde_4675317_member_275242328#!

All they need to do is drop the interest rate to level that covers cost without profit (as with student loan ?)
and they might get some takers
Is it just me or ........

James, the 'bond markets' are not going to be interested at lower interest rates, and that is where the finance comes from...