Funding: Commercial

CSEP is an open grants programme run by the BRE (Building Research Establishment), an award partner with the Big Lottery Fund. The aim of the scheme is to raise public awareness and support for renewable energy through the installation of community scale microgeneration schemes. It will provide £8 million to community-based, not-for-profit organisations based in England, for the installation of microgeneration technologies, such as heat pumps and solar panels, and energy efficiency measures including loft and cavity wall insulation. It will also provide £1 million for project development grants that will help community organisations decide if they could benefit from a microgeneration and energy efficiency installations. Grants under this programme are only awarded to not-for-profit community-based organisations in England.

Contact us at Geothermal International for help with your organisation's community project, and get advice whether you can further benefit from LCBP2, together with your CSEP grant.

From April 2010 households and communities who install generating technologies such as photovoltaic solar panels will be entitled to claim payments for the low carbon electricity they produce - up to 5 megawatts generated on site will receive a payment for up to 25 years, depending on the generating technology. Any surplus electricity fed back to the grid will receive a guaranteed price. (See table of Tariff levels).

To find out how to combine technologies to make the most of this scheme and the forthcoming Renewable Heat Incentive, contact us.

The ECA scheme enables a business to claim 100% first-year capital allowance on their spending on qualifying plant and machinery, allowing the full cost to be written off against the taxable profits in the period in which the investment is made. The scheme is intended to encourage the use energy-saving technology as part of the Climate Change Levy Programme. Only products listed on the Energy Technology List (ETL) are eligible. Products listed include all types of heat pumps.

Please contact Geothermal International for help through the application system for your heat pump project.

The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is a new regulatory incentive to improve energy efficiency in large public and private sector organisations. It is a mandatory scheme that starts in April 2010 and aims to improve energy efficiency and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted in the UK. CRC will affect large organisations in both the public and private sector who use more than 6,000MWh per year of electricity (equivalent to an annual electricity bill of about £500,000).

Participating organisations will have to monitor their emissions and purchase allowances, initially sold by Government, for each tonne of CO2 they emit. The more CO2 an organisation emits, the more allowances it has to purchase. .On the other hand, there is a direct incentive for these organisations to reduce their emissions by improving their energy efficiency as they can then benefit by reducing the allowances they need to buy and surrender. This will mean reducing not only the costs of their involvement in CRC, but also benefiting from cutting their energy bills. Qualifying companies need to pay to join the scheme, then pay an annual fee. To see if your company meets the qualification criteria, visit www.decc.gov.uk

This scheme makes it even more important that you are benefiting from the maximum energy efficiency measures for your organisation’s heating requirements. To increase your company's position in the CRC's league table ranking and gain bonuses rather than penalties, contact us to see how we can help.