Funding and finance

A number of funding sources are available to local authorities and housing associations to help you promote energy efficiency and renewable energy initiatives in your area.

Go to our England site to find out about funding available in England.

Go to our Scotland site to find out about funding available in Scotland.

Feed-in tariffs

The introduction of Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) represents a real opportunity for public bodies to create environmental benefit, coupled with a range of economic benefits. We have a range of resources available if you are looking at setting up a Feed in Tariff scheme.

Renewable Heat Incentive

The Renewable Heat Incentive, encourages the installation of renewable heat equipment such as solar thermal technologies, biomass boilers and heat pumps by offering payments for generating renewable heat.

Sustainable retrofit 

We have evaluated the installation phase of the FutureFit project - the retrofit of 102 homes using low, medium and high cost packages of measures.

Find out more about our work with Affinity Sutton.

Read the report on the installation phase.

Read the previous report – FutureFit part one.

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Are you an architect, builder, designer, or developer? A specifier, installer, or manufacturer?

Go straight to our section for housing professionals.

Contact us

For local authorities and housing associations:

FREE independent help and advice

If you are a homeowner or tenant and want advice on how to save energy in your home,

please call our free local helpline on

0800 512 012

or email us using this form

Publications
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We have a huge range of publications for local authorities and housing authorities, including documents on legislation and policy, strategy development, funding and finance, existing housing, new build, and district heating and energy services; plus quarterly newsletters aimed at local authority and housing association staff.

Find our publications for local authorities and housing associations.

Search all our publications.

Sustainable refurbishment training courses

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If you are a housing professional and want to improve your skills in eco retrofit, book your place on our one-day training course.