Comments on: FOI act application re: Domestic Energy Assessors (DEA) numbers

By: Training as a Community & Housing Energy Adviser

Training as a Community & Housing Energy Adviser — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:22:33 +0000

[...] It was initially planned that one of the pre-requisites of training as a Community and/or Housing Energy Advisor would be being a qualified domestic energy assessor. One must wonder why this original intention was dropped when we have such an over supply and easily accessible existing workforce with current DEA numbers. [...]

By: Mike Duhig

Mike Duhig — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:26:01 +0000

Thank you, very interesting update.
Given the numbers of DEAs in the market and the very few, relatively, of properties coming to market it is surprising any of us are making a living!

By: David

David — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:54:43 +0000

Thanks HIP-Consultant.co.uk and to everyone who posted a comment on training to become an energy assessor.

This article has helped me see through a training provider’s exaggerations and lies and saved me a lot of time and money now that I am not going to consider their course for which I was offered an interview.

David

By: Mike D

Mike D — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:40:29 +0000

All I know is that it is very hard to get work and all the promises by the Training Providers have proved to be empty. Prices are being driven down as dog-eats-dog and I admit that I’m a guilty as the next in trying to get work to regain some (never ALL) of my investment in this business. However I will hold on because I beleive that all the indicators are that we need to be more energy-consious and that there is a future. Written on on the first GREEN BRITAIN DAY.

One problem is that the public have not been made sufficiently aware of EPCs and many Landlords are flouting the law . What is needed is a Government ad-campaign and Local Trading Standards to start prosecutions

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:50:14 +0000

I have read one training providers website this morning stating that 50,000 assessors are needed just in the South. How do they get away with it if the government have stated that only 3,000 are needed.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:54:29 +0000

looking at the figures even in 2007 we had twice the amount needed. Every week advertisements say that there is a shortage. I am not sure the latest figures can be relied on as the training companies are still in business. I expect many more thousands have been trained than we know of.

By: Ian Bristow

Ian Bristow — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Its good to keep it fresh and up to date, thank you.

It seems that too many companies, including property organisations, are reliant on providing training for their own income during these hard times. Lots of people have invested their redundancy money and hopes into the promises their training would return, only to find it’s not true or there.

These numbers show that there are still too many qualified DEAs.