FUNDING FOR HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS

Utility companies:  The Energy Efficiency Commitment

Under the Energy Efficiency Commitment (EEC), electricity and gas suppliers are required to meet targets for the promotion of improvements in household energy efficiency.  The EEC will contribute to the Climate Change Programme by cutting greenhouse gas emissions.  It requires suppliers to focus at least 50 per cent of energy savings on a priority group of low income consumers, so the scheme also contributes to the reduction of fuel poverty.

Contact us for assistance in obtaining the best deal for your housing association from EEC funding.  

The gas and electricity regulator, Ofgem, administers the EEC:  for further information see the Ofgem website.

Alternatively, contact energy suppliers direct to find out what they can offer your housing association.

The Low Carbon Buildings Programme (LCBP)

LCBP replaces Clear Skies and the Solar Photovoltaics Programme, providing grants for microgeneration technologies for householders, community organisations, schools, the public sector and businesses.  

The main aims of the programme are:

• To support a more holistic approach to reducing carbon emissions from buildings by demonstrating combinations of both energy efficiency measures and microgeneration products in a single development.
• To see demonstrated on a wider scale emerging microgeneration technologies (with a focus on building integrated technologies).
• To measure trends in costs of microgeneration technologies. It is expected that these costs should reduce over the lifetime of the programme against a 2005 baseline.
• To raise awareness by linking demonstration projects to a wider programme of activities including developing skills and communicating the potential of microgeneration to change the attitudes and behaviour of consumers. Larger scale projects will seek to engage the construction industry in project replication by demonstrating the business case for developing low carbon buildings.

Grant funding is available under two streams:

• Stream one: householders and community organisations
• Stream two: medium and large microgeneration projects by public, not for profit and commercial organisations.

For further information contact us or click here.