Green Deal Advisor Gateway for DEA’s
The Revised Green Deal EPC
The Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Consumer Focus (CF) have been working to revise the design and content of the domestic EPC to deliver an improved product that consumers can rely on and to ensure it can effectively support the Green Deal
They believe the revised EPC is a significant improvement which will now include:
- More graphics and white space
- A single energy efficiency graph on the front page
- Significantly reduced text
- Clear signposting to the Green Deal
- Indicating which recommendations could be funded through the Green Deal
- Greater focus on potential financial savings
- Recommended improvements nearer the front of the document
- Text of less immediate interest moved to the back page
The National Occupational Standards (NOS) have been reviewed and the additional top-up unit developed by Asset Skills has now been created, which will be available as a stand-alone qualification mid January 2012.
Stroma Certification Ltd provide training for this qualification. It is estimated that 8 hours of training will be required to cover the additional requirements. Please note this is in addition to the required 10 hours annual CPD.
Following the training DEAS will be required to undergo a supervised online multiple-choice assessment, consisting of 40 questions lasting 60 minutes. Charges from the examining body will apply for assessment, of which we will be able to notify you of in due course. There is no restriction to the amount of resits available; however, the top-up qualification and assessment will no longer be available after October 2012. (At this point, the full revised DEA qualification would need to be taken).
Domestic Energy Assessors who wish to continue practicing, and to maintain their accreditation after 6th April 2012 will need to undertake training in the new qualification and successfully pass the examination, prior to this date.
You can apply for the upskill training using our online form alternatively contact Stroma directly at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 0845 621 11 11.
DEA & GDA timeline
- November 2011
Revisions to the DEA National Occupational Standard (NOS) completed.
- November 2011
Green Deal pilot scheme begins
- January 2012
Awarding organisations will convert the new QCF unit into a qualification.
- January 2012
Production of Green Deal Advisor NOS completed
- April 2012
All DEAs will be expected to undertake this training and successfully complete the assessment by April 2012.
- April 2012
Anticipated that Green Deal Advisor (GDA) qualification will be available by end of March 2012.
- April 2012
New EPC goes live
- September 2012
First Green Deals appear
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