Household energy

Services

Help with your energy bills

Get help with your energy bills through the Warm Home Discount, home energy improvement schemes and the Energy Bills Discount Scheme for businesses.
Help from your energy supplier: the Energy Company Obligation

Help for home energy-saving improvements - eligibility, how to apply
Green Deal

Complain about Green Deal providers or installers, what to do if you sell or move into a property with a Green Deal loan
Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)

Help with renewable energy costs for homeowners and landlords through the RHI scheme.
Sustainable Warmth competition (closed to applications)

Funding for local authorities to help them install energy saving upgrades and low carbon heating in low-income households.

Domestic private rented property: minimum energy efficiency standard - landlord guidance
- Detailed guide
- 20 August 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Warm Homes: Local Grant – guidance for local authorities
- Guidance
- 20 August 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Sign in to your Boiler Upgrade Scheme installer account
- Detailed guide
- 28 November 2022
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ofgem, and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
What to do if you have poor quality wall insulation
- Detailed guide
- 18 February 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Ofgem
Gas meter readings and bill calculation
- Detailed guide
- 10 June 2014
- Office for Product Safety and Standards

Reminder to eligible households to get £150 off energy bills
- 13 August 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Press release
Households given freedom and choice with more ways to cut energy bills
- 23 July 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, National Energy System Operator, and Ofgem
- Press release
Government steps in to protect consumers with old energy meters
- 19 June 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Press release
Rooftop solar for new builds to save people money
- 6 June 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Press release
'Biggest building boom' in a generation through planning reforms
- 11 March 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Press release

Home Decarbonisation Skills Training competition Phase 1 and 2: summary of evaluation findings
- 1 September 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Research
Secondary heating behaviours
- 1 August 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Research
English Housing Survey 2023 to 2024: climate resilient homes - fact sheet
- 17 July 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- National statistics
Exploring options for improving energy bill equity for fuel poor households
- 8 July 2025
- Committee on Fuel Poverty
- Research
Warm Home Discount statistics, 2023 to 2024
- 26 June 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Official statistics

Extending the ECO4 end date
- 29 August 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Open consultation
- Closing date 25 September 2025
Heat networks regulation: implementing consumer protections
- 8 August 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Ofgem
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 31 January 2025
Raising product standards for household tumble dryers
- 17 July 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 14 August 2025
Great British Energy Bill: factsheets
- 3 September 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Great British Energy
- Policy paper
Retrofit System Reform Advisory Panel: terms of reference
- 17 July 2025
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Policy paper