Funding and grants
Boiler Upgrade Scheme
The government is providing grants to encourage property owners to install low carbon heating systems such as heat pumps, through the Boiler Upgrade Scheme. These grants will not normally be enough to fully fund the improvements, but can help property owners with some of the upfront cost of low carbon heating technologies. More information about the scheme is available on the GOV.UK – Boiler upgrade website.
Energy Company Obligation (ECO)
The Energy Company Obligation (ECO) is one of the main schemes for supporting energy efficiency improvements including insulation and some heating improvements in low income and vulnerable households. Some energy companies are obligated to promote promote measures which improve the ability of low income, fuel poor and vulnerable households to heat their homes. This includes actions that result in heating savings, such as the replacement of a broken heating system or the upgrade of an inefficient heating system. The main component of ECO is administered to nationally agreed eligibility.
There is also a second element which is called ‘ECO Flex’ or Flexible Eligibility. This has enabled local authorities to develop their own ‘statement of intent’ (SOI) which defines local broader eligibility. All East Sussex local authorities have one shared SOI which can be accessed here.
Hastings Borough Council, on behalf of all East Sussex councils, administers the declarations issued under the SOI. This means that Hastings Borough Council checks that a household is eligible under the agreed broader eligibility.
The Warm Home Check service is able to access and coordinate ECO funded energy efficiency improvements for you.
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