Remember when I sent MP Ed Balls an email, campaigning to make sure windows were installed as part of the Green Deal, as well as trying to push for 5% VAT for energy efficient windows? Well if not, you can read his response to that first email here: https://www.doubleglazingblogger.com/2012/07/letter-from-ed-balls/ Today I received another letter from Mr [...]
One of the main selling points of the Green Deal is that the products included in the scheme are granted the lower 5% rate of VAT (bar windows but that is another matter!). The 5% rate will help ensure that the cost of the home improvements are outweighed by the benefits and energy saving reductions [...]
In a new age of openness and honesty, there are still large swathes of our country and economy which are still run by the dishonest and incapable. We currently live in a country where the every week the banking system appears to be more corrupt and only serves to rip off the general public. To [...]
The title of this post sounds very dry I know, but it contains something we all need to be doing to make sure our industry gets a fair chance when the Green Deal comes to fruition. Our friends @APSWindowCo as well input from Russell from Finesse Windows on the Low VAT Rate For Windows, have [...]
> Fantastic news for the solar industry in the UK has just been announced! The High Court has denied an appeal from the Government to cut the FIT from 43p per kWh to 21p. The Government lost it's original battle before Christmas to implement the cuts, but a challenge sent to the High Court ruled [...]
>The Green Deal has been on shaky ground ever since the details of the deal have been researched and found to be inconsistent at best. However, the Government's latest set of figures could spell the end for a deal which has had so much lobbying, hours of debate in Parliament, and I'm sure many millions [...]
>Everyone seems to have an opinion on the strikes that happened last Wednesday. So here's mine, and I'll try and keep this as swift as possible. On a subject like this it's easy to get carried away!For me, striking at a time when the country is struggling to get it's economy back on track is [...]
>The Government is set to score a huge own goal on 12th December, when it implements a massive 52% cut to the feed-in-tariff from companies who sell their unused energy supplies back to the national grid.Indeed, this is going to make life for solar panel businesses very hard. We had ours done for free by [...]
>The Government is working very hard and very quickly to make sure that the Green Deal covers as many areas as possible, and that it's implemented as soon as is viable. Effort which I have to applaud, which isn't often said by me about this Government.But there is one huge underlying factor which could derail [...]
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