Heat in Buildings: progress report 2024

Annual update on progress against our Heat in Buildings Strategy and Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.


Annex B: Scottish Government delivery schemes and advice services

Domestic support:

Area Based Schemes

Scheme to reduce fuel poverty by enabling local authorities to design and deliver energy efficiency programmes in fuel poor areas. Primary focus on insulation measures for 'hard to treat' properties but includes clean heating and microgeneration measures as part of a ‘whole house’ approach.

Home Energy Scotland: Grant and Loan scheme

Has offered grants up to £15,000 for heat pumps and energy efficiency measures. Loans have also been available to cover additional costs. An additional rural uplift of £1,500 has been applied to both clean heating, such as heat pumps and energy efficiency grants.

Warmer Homes Scotland

Our national fuel poverty programme designed to help those living in or at risk of fuel poverty through the installation of measures such as insulation and clean heating systems.

Home Energy Scotland

Free independent advice and referral scheme.

Business support :

SME Loan and Cashback

The SME Loan and Cashback scheme provides interest free loans from £1,000 up to £100,000 and cashback of up to £30,000 to small and medium sized Scotland based businesses for the installation of energy efficiency measures and clean heating.

Business Energy Scotland

Free advice and support to SMEs for energy efficiency and heat decarbonisation.

Public sector support:

Scottish Green Public Sector Estate Decarbonisation Scheme

The main government-led capital funding mechanism to support leadership for decarbonisation of buildings owned by the public sector. The scheme comprises four support elements for public sector bodies:

  1. The Scottish Public Sector Non-Domestic Energy Efficiency (NDEE) Frameworks and Project Support Unit (PSU)
  2. The Scottish Central Government Energy Efficiency Grant scheme
  3. The Scottish Public Sector Energy Efficiency Loan Scheme
  1. Scotland’s Public Sector Heat Decarbonisation Fund

Multi-sector support

Scotland’s Heat Network Fund

Open to public and private sector organisations, including support for new heat networks and the decarbonisation and expansion of existing heat networks.

Heat Network Support Unit

The Heat Network Support Unit (HNSU) supports the development of heat network projects in Scotland. It does this by offering grant funding and expert advice throughout the pre-capital stages of development. We are working on building a project pipeline to meet our targets and to build capacity within the public sector to lead on, invest in and deliver heat network projects.

Social Housing Net Zero Heat Fund

Capital grant funding to support social housing landlords to install clean heating systems and energy efficiency measures.

Contact

Email: heatinbuildings@gov.scot

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