Boiler Upgrade Scheme

The Boiler Upgrade Scheme provides grants to encourage property owners to replace existing fossil fuel heating with more efficient, low carbon heating systems including air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps and, in limited circumstances, biomass boilers. You can get: £7,500 off the cost and installation of an air source heat pump £7,500 off the cost and installation of a ground source heat pump £5,000 off the cost and installation of a biomass boiler These grants help property owners overcome the upfront cost of installing a low carbon heating system. Contains public sector information from Find a grant, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

your property must be a home or small or medium non-domestic building in England or Wales. The maximum installation capacity of 45 kWth covers the vast majority of these properties. The overall system capacity for any shared ground loop system must not exceed 300 kWth. your property must have a valid energy performance certificate. where a low carbon heating system has been commissioned prior to an installer submitting a voucher application, installers must ensure that the voucher application has been or will be, properly made within 120 days of the commissioning date stated on the MCS certificate. biomass boilers are only eligible in properties that are both in a rural location and not connected to the gas grid. Heat pumps do not have either of these restrictions. you must be fully replacing an existing fossil fuel system such as an oil or gas boiler, or an electric heating system such as storage or panel heaters. Funding will not be available for the replacement of existing low carbo...