What’s wrong with ECO?

Unlike its predecessor schemes, uptake of ECO3 is extremely slow and worrying. Following chart from Ofgem’s ECO3 progress report (published in April 2019) shows that only about 20% progress was made against the phase 1. Is ECO dead already? As long as ECO Legislation...

ECO3 snapshot

ECO2 ends on the 30th September and ECO3 is due to commence. As the consultation process is also ending it is clear that there are considerable changes throughout. These include ECO3 being all HHCRO, with the expansion within the eligibility criteria. The Private...

Green Deal is dead!

Green Deal is dead. Recently DECC also eliminated the requirement of GDARs from domestic RHI. Now leaves ECO as the only scheme that uses GDAR to recommend a measure. Just like with every premature scheme deaths in the past, we would never come to know the financial...

Why count the carbon?

The next domestic energy efficiency scheme is most likely to use deemed scores instead of SAP/RdSAP for carbon and cost saving calculations. Deemed scores have been used in previous energy efficiency schemes. The method is considerably straightforward and is likely to...

Geographic Variation in ECO Installations

DECC publishes quarterly statistics of ECO and Green Deal (may it rest in peace). I have used the provisional cumulative figures of ECO installations provided in the September 2015 quarterly update (table 1.11a) to generate a GIS map. Click on the map to see...