Guidance

Home Decarbonisation Skills Training competition: Phase 1 (closed to applications)

The competition funded training for people working in the energy efficiency, retrofit and low carbon heating sectors.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 20 September 2022
• Last updated: 1 December 2022 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on 5 September 2025

This competition is closed to new applicants.

There are other schemes available offering funding to train people in the retrofit, energy efficiency and low carbon heating sectors.

See:

• Warm Homes Skills Programme
• Heat Training Grant: discounted heat network training

Documents

[Withdrawn] Home Decarbonisation Skills Training competition: guidance

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Home Decarbonisation Skills Training competition: privacy notice

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-decarbonisation-skills-training-competition-privacy-notice

Details

Applications to the Home Decarbonisation Skills Training Competition Phase 1 are now closed.

Find out more about the successful Phase 1 projects.

See the Phase 1 evaluation.

The Home Decarbonisation Skills Training Competition funded training for people in the energy efficiency, building retrofit and low carbon heating sectors. The competition aimed to increase supply chain capacity, both in terms of volume and skill level.

The increased supply chain capacity supported the delivery of existing home retrofit schemes as well as the decarbonisation of our buildings in support of the UK’s net zero carbon emissions target.

The competition

Phase 1 of the competition awarded £9.2 million of grant funding to 18 training providers to deliver accredited training across England.

Successful projects were expected to achieve one or more of the following:

• installation training to the specific technology standard - for example, National Occupational Standards, PAS 2030:2019 standards, PAS 2035 standards, MCS standards or higher
• training in the installation of one or more individual energy efficiency and/or low carbon heating measures, including training for individuals with existing construction skills and training for those new to the sector
• support for training in retrofit assessor and retrofit coordinator skills to PAS 2035 standard, leading to the relevant qualification

The scheme was administered by the Midlands Net Zero Hub on behalf of the department.

Published 20 September 2022

Last updated 1 December 2022 + show all updates

1. 1 December 2022

   Home Decarbonisation Skills Training Competition closed to applications.

2. 20 September 2022

   First published.