Grants

Renewable Energy

Householder grants -Low Carbon Buildings Programme.

BERR's Low Carbon Buildings Programme householder stream has funds available until June 2010. The grants are from £400 to £2500 depending on the technology and will subsidise the cost of solar hot water systems, solar photovoltaic, ground and air source heat pumps, small wind systems, wood fuelled boilers, automated wood pellet room heaters or stoves and small hydro systems.

You will have to use an imporved installer and product and meet certain basic energy efficiency standards first, these are to have cavity wall insulation if you have cavity walls, 11" or 270mm of loft insulation, energy efficient lighting, and basic heating controls to include a programmer / timer, room thermostat and thermostatic radiator valves.

Find out more and apply on line here

Public sector and charitable bodies

Grants for the installation of microgeneration technologies are available to public sector buildings (including schools, hospitals, housing associations and local authorities) and charitable bodies.

Applications are being accepted now. It is currently anticipated that funds will be committed through to mid-2009, but this will depend on the actual rate of applications. Once applications are approved, claimants will be given details of the latest date grants can be claimed.

Find out more and apply on line here

Community based organisations

This Lottery fund is for not-for-profit community based organisations in England. It provides Capital grants There are two types of grant available:

Project Development / Feasability Grants - up to £5,000 or 75%

Grants are available for studies investigating the feasibility of installing any combination of the microgeneration technologies listed below. The maximum grant available is £5,000 or 75 per cent of the study cost - whichever is lower.

Capital Grants

Grants are available for the purchase and installation of any combination of the following technologies:

Solar photovoltaics
Solar thermal hot water
Wind turbines
Heat pumps
Automated wood pellet stoves
Wood fuelled boiler systems
Micro-hydro turbines.

Funding will also be available for energy efficiency measures, such as cavity wall and loft insulation in combination with the microgeneration technology. Where these are not already in place, you will have to install them in order to qualify for a microgeneration capital grant.