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New £185m UK funding boosts eco-friendly business upgrades
UK businesses can tap into a new £185 million fund for eco-friendly upgrades, including efficient insulation, heat pumps, and solar panels, to drive their net zero transitions.
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Accelerating heat pump deployment
2023 saw the number of heat pumps installed across the UK increase 25% on the previous year.
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Additional £1.5bn trebles BUS funding following success of increased heat pump grant
Government announces £6 billion energy efficiency support for families, business and industry.
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Calls for fully funded heat pumps and hydrogen to be ruled out
Government urged to vastly expand heat pump subsidies to meet net zero goals.
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Installers opt for hybrid systems for their homes in low carbon survey
Hybrid systems are the low carbon solution of choice for installers
Special Report
How a new policy model has created an island paradise for heat pumps
The Jersey model making electricity-based heating a far more cost-effective choice
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MCS response to the Ofgem Boiler Upgrade Scheme consultation
MCS has called for ‘lessons learned’ and ‘more clarity’ about payment, in response to the Boiler Upgrade Scheme consultation, which seeks views on Ofgem’s proposal for the new grant.
Opinion
Learning lessons for future government green schemes
As we approach the launch of campaigns such as the Boiler Grant Scheme, due for release in April, as part of the government’s plans to drive down the cost of low carbon heating technologies, we believe reflection on past scheme failures will be the key to moving forward effectively in the future.
Opinion
Grant UK welcomes Boiler upgrade scheme
Grant UK has broadly welcomed the Government plans to incentivise people to install low-carbon heating systems via the Boiler Upgrade Scheme
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£5k heat pump grants welcomed by industry
In the Heat and Buildings strategy released today, Government firmly backs heat pumps with plans to drive down their cost through a £450million scheme
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Majority of homeowners will install heat pumps if financially supported
Heat pumps are a crucial part of the Government’s decarbonisation strategy but the poll of more than 2,000 homeowners across the UK found that, while a significant 8 in 10 are willing to replace gas boilers with low carbon solutions such as heat pumps, they will only do so with substantial financial support.
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Grants available for renewable energy systems at commercial premises
Grants between £1,000 and £5,000 are available to help fund up to a third of the cost of systems including solar PV, biomass boilers, solar thermal, small-wind turbines, and wood fuel heaters. Projects funded include equipment upgrades, waste reduction machinery, and of course renewable energy systems. The programme has already awarded over 30 grants for renewable energy projects, with a sharp increase in applications for solar being seen in 2020/21. Solar PV projects are now the second most popular across the scheme, with 10% of applications being for this intervention (up from 0.6%) A further increase has been seen during the last month, with 50% of awarded grants in Berkshire having been for solar PV arrays.
Opinion
Green Homes Grant – what now?
On 8th February the Government reluctantly admitted that it had issued just 20,000 GHG vouchers since the scheme began in Autumn 2020, immediately hampering efforts towards the PM’s ambitious 600,000 heat pump installations per year by 2028. Then just days later the situation was exacerbated when it was announced that hundreds of millions of pounds would be withdrawn from the scheme entirely.