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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.

From:
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Published
16 June 2021
Last updated
7 October 2022 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Sustainable Warmth competition: guidance

PDF, 694 KB, 40 pages

Sustainable Warmth competition: questions and answers

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Sustainable Warmth Competition: requirements for TrustMark Scheme providers and registered businesses

https://www.trustmark.org.uk/docs/default-source/scheme-documents/sustainable-warmth-competition-trustmark-requirements-for-scheme-providers-and-registered-businesses-v1.pdf

Sustainable Warmth competition: draft memorandum of understanding

MS Word Document, 363 KB

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Details

The Sustainable Warmth Competition awards funding to Local Authorities to help them upgrade energy inefficient homes of low income households in England. It launched in June 2021 and closed to applications in August 2021.

The competition encompasses 2 existing schemes:

  • Local Authority Delivery Phase 3 (LAD3): £287 million to support low-income households heated by mains gas
  • Home Upgrade Grant Phase 1 (HUG1): £152 million to support low-income households off the gas grid

Its focus is on upgrading the worst insulated owner occupier and private rented homes with energy efficiency installations and low carbon heating. Projects that upgrade homes with an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of E, F or G will be prioritised. Upgrades to properties with an EPC rating of D will be allowed but will be limited.

Low-income households who own their home can get upgrades fully funded within the relevant cost caps and do not have to contribute. Where a household is low-income and renting their home, the landlord must contribute at least a third of the total cost of upgrading the property within the relevant cost caps.

We allocated funding to successful local authorities. Projects must be completed by 31 March 2023.

Applications

The competition is now closed to applications.

Contact

If you need further information, please contact Sustainable.Warmth@beis.gov.uk.

Published 16 June 2021
Last updated 7 October 2022 + show all updates

  1. Update to provide further clarification on delivery and timescales, grant funding, eligible homes, funding and eligible costs and there is now a new definitions section.

  2. Questions and answers replaced with new questions received since competition closed. Update to Trustmark guidance.

  3. The Sustainable Warmth Competition is now closed to applications.

  4. We have published further answers in the questions and answers document.

  5. We have updated the questions and answers document to provide answers on the application process, timescales, eligibility criteria, funding, eligibility measures and administrative costs.

  6. We have published a questions and answers document which provides more information about the competition.

  7. First published.

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