{"id":43792,"date":"2014-06-17T11:24:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T11:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=0b50c16eceedfe6e26c70b22f22d1efe"},"modified":"2014-06-17T11:24:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T11:24:35","slug":"news-story-more-than-2-6-million-issued-for-new-green-deal-home-improvement-fund-in-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=43792","title":{"rendered":"News story: More than \u00a32.6 million issued for new Green Deal Home Improvement Fund in first week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>1,736 applications were made for the fund which offers households in England and Wales up to \u00a37600 cash back for making energy efficient home improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve changed the Green Deal to make it simpler and faster for people to make their homes more energy efficient \u2013 you could get up to \u00a37600 back, straight into your bank account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want as many people as possible to benefit from this unmissable offer. It won\u2019t be around forever, so sign up now and get your home ready for the winter.\u201d<br \/>\nUnder the new incentive scheme domestic energy customers can get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>up to \u00a31000 for installing two measures from an approved list; and\/or<\/li>\n<li>up to \u00a36000 for installing solid wall insulation; and<\/li>\n<li>up to \u00a3100 refunded for their Green Deal Assessment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The scheme also entitles those who have bought a property in the 12 months prior to application to qualify for up to an additional \u00a3500 if they carry out energy efficiency improvements.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/energy-savings-advice-service-esas-calls-and-green-deal-webpage-views\">Green Deal Home Improvement Fund application data is available<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/7600-to-make-your-home-more-energy-efficient\">More information about the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund is available<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a32.61 million was issued to households through the new Green Deal Home Improvement Fund during the scheme\u2019s first week, according to industry estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}