Grants for Insulation, Heat Pumps and Solar
Labour has jump-started their Warm Homes Plan, working in partnership with business, local government and the third party sector to insulate homes and make them warmer and cheaper to heat. Don’t miss out as the UK aims to become a clean energy superpower.
Register your interest in free Warm Homes Fund grants – open to homeowners, private tenants and some social housing tenants.
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The Labour Government announced that they plan to upgrade millions of homes with their Warm Homes Plan, aimed at giving families cheaper energy bills permanently, with warm, future-proofed homes.
How could I benefit under the Warm Homes Plan?
As a key part of the Warm Homes Plan, the Government has committed with its partners to deliver a range of insulation measures and other improvements such as solar panels, batteries and low carbon heating to cut bills for families, slash fuel poverty, and reduce carbon emissions in support of the net zero 2050 target. If your home is energy inefficient — with an Energy Performance Certificate rating of D to G — the intention is to improve properties to achieve an EPC rating of C.
- The new Warm Homes: Local Grant will help low-income homeowners and private tenants with energy performance upgrades and cleaner heating. This replaces the Local Authority Delivery Scheme and will begin delivery in 2025. Private tenants are also eligible for funding support under Energy Company Obligation.
- The Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund replaces the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund, and is intended to support social housing providers and tenants.
Who is eligible for Warm Homes Plan grants?
Grants are available for energy performance upgrades and low carbon heating to low-income households living in the worst quality, privately owned homes in England to achieve energy bill savings and carbon savings. These upgrades will be open to all fuel types, including on gas households (those heated by mains gas), and off gas households (those heated by electricity, oil, coal, or liquid petroleum gas).
To be eligible for funding the following needs to apply:
- You are located in England
- You are a low income household
- The Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) of your home is between D and G
- You live in a privately owned property (owner occupied or privately rented)
- Social housing providers and tenants may be able to benefit under the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund
How Can The Effective Energy Group Help You?
When it comes to making the Labour Government’s clean energy ambitions come to life, this is where companies like Effective Energy Group are vitally important. We are a group of companies providing energy-related services to individuals and businesses, including; Effective Home, Effective Energy Solutions, Max Energy, and Aztec Solar.
Together, we work to install renewable energy solutions, including energy efficient retrofit projects. We facilitate access to Warm Homes Plan, ECO and other funding for low-income households, and support local and national contractors to help reduce the nation’s carbon footprint.
Whether you are a homeowner, tenant, or even a landlord, register your interest and see how we can help when the Warm Homes funding becomes available.
“The national emergency of rising energy bills has again highlighted the urgent importance of insulating as many homes as possible.
The UK spends more money on energy wasted through the walls and roofs of our houses than any other country in Western Europe. Upgrading the energy efficiency of homes would reduce energy demand, thereby cutting bills for families and building the UK’s energy security. This comes after a decade of failure by the Conservatives to introduce a proper national energy efficiency plan.
Home insulation rates have plummeted – in 2013 the Coalition cut energy efficiency programmes, after which insulation rates fell by 92% in 2013. In 2022, they stood at a figure ten times lower than in 2010. Labour would deliver a National Warm Homes Plan to upgrade millions of homes, installing energy saving measures such as loft and cavity wall insulation, and expanding access to green technologies like solar panels and green technologies.”
Labour Manifesto
Labour coming into power has launched their green prosperity plan
Labour will give devolved governments and local authorities the power and the resources to upgrade cold, draughty homes in their area. This will create jobs across the country for construction workers, plumbers and installers. Labour’s Warm Homes Plan alone will cut household bills by up to £500 every year for families, reduce gas imports, provide opportunities for British businesses of all sizes, and create hundreds of thousands of good jobs for builders, electricians, plumbers, carpenters and architects.
Cut household energy bills by up to £500 a year, insulating millions of homes and building cheaper, cleaner power across the country.
Save businesses £53bn in energy bills up to 2030, making British industry more competitive and lowering prices for consumers
Create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, for plumbers, electricians, engineers and technicians across Britain.
“It’s time to write a new chapter of Labour Party history about how we built a fairer, greener, more dynamic Britain by tackling the climate emergency head on and using it to create the jobs, the industries, the opportunities of the future… And what will it mean for working people? Cheaper bills and higher living standards.”
Keir Starmer
Labour Party Conference, September 2022
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Warm Homes FAQs
A range of different people, including homeowners, private tenants, social housing tenants and even landlords, could potentially benefit from Labour’s Warm Homes Plan. The funding opportunities provide access to grants for a range of different types of applicants to help make their homes more energy efficient.
While the full details are still to be outlined, the Government has stated its intention to help over 1 million tenant households out of fuel poverty by boosting minimum energy efficiency standards for private and social rented homes by 2030. The intention is that all private and social rented homes should achieve Energy Performance Certificate C or equivalent. Currently, private rented homes can be rented out if they meet EPC Certificate E, while social housing has no minimum standards at all.
The Warm Homes Plan aims to transform homes across the country and make them cheaper and cleaner to run by installing energy efficiency measures including insulation, solar and heat pumps.
A list of some of the measures that could be funded by the scheme include the following:
| Energy Performance Measures | Low Carbon Heat |
| Cavity Wall Insulation | Air Source Heat Pump |
| Flat Roof Insulation | Ground Source Heat Pump |
| Internal Wall Insulation | Hybrid Heat Pumps (for homes currently heated by mains gas) |
| Loft Insulation | Shared Ground Loops |
| Park Home Insulation | Wet Central Heating (a system using water to distribute heat) |
| Room-in-roof Insulation | Biomass |
| Solid/External Wall Insulation | High Retention Storage Heaters |
| Underfloor Insulation | |
| Heating Controls | |
| Hot Water Cylinder Insulation | |
| Hot Water Cylinder Thermostat | |
| Hot Water Cylinder/Tank | |
| Low energy lighting | |
| Solar PV | |
| Solar Thermal | |
| Battery Storage | |
| Digital/Smart Controls | |
| Draught Proofing | |
| Double/Triple Glazing | |
| Energy Efficiency Doors |
A new Warm Homes: Local Grant is intended to help low-income homeowners and private tenants with energy performance upgrades and cleaner heating. This replaces the Local Authority Delivery Scheme and will start delivery in 2025.
Low-income private tenants need the agreement of their landlord to be eligible for support. Private tenants are also eligible for funding support under Energy Company Obligation.
The Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund replaces the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund, and is intended to support social housing providers and tenants
There are several ways in which households that already fall within the EPC bands D to G could be classed as ‘low income’ households and therefore be eligible for funding.
- Households that reside within deprived areas (certain postcode areas) according to Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)
- Households which can demonstrate receipt of a specified means-tested benefits
- Households with an annual gross income below £36,000
Under Warm Homes: Local Grant, a simple dual cost cap structure has been set of £15k per home cap for energy performance upgrades, and £15k per home for low carbon heating (Examples of both listed above).
- Owner occupiers are not required or expected to make any contributions to the cost of upgrades.
- Tenants are not required or expected to make any contributions to the cost of upgrades
- Private rented sector landlords may receive one home fully funded per landlord under Warm Homes: Local Grant. A 50% cost contribution will be required from the private landlord for any additional homes upgraded after the first.
- A 50% cost contribution is required from social housing landlords.
