Funding

From 1st April 2010 individuals, organisations, schools and businesses in England, Wales and Scotland can claim cash back for electricity they produce from eligible renewable and low-carbon sources. The new scheme provides a fixed payment for the electricity you generate, called the generation tariff. It also pays for any unused electricity that you export to the grid, the export tariff. A further benefit is that you wont have to pay for electricity that you generate and use yourself.

This scheme provides grants towards the complete installation of biomass fuelled heat and biomass combined heat and power projects. There is no minimum grant for any one application and the maximum grant is half a million pounds per installation. The grant is available to business and community organisations, including schools.

The Scottish Power Green Energy Trust will grant up to half the cost of the chosen renewable technology. There is a maximum award of 25,000 but most projects receive around 10,000.

The Energy Saving Trust provides a search facility for grants and offers to improve energy efficiency in the home.

The Community Sustainable Energy Programme provides funding to community-based organisations for the installation of microgeneration technologies, such as solar panels or wind turbines and energy efficiency measures including loft and cavity wall insulation. It will also provides project development grants that will help community organisations establish if a microgeneration and energy efficiency installation will work for them.

A free on-site survey from the Carbon Trust could save your school a significant amount of money.Each survey will identify short-term low (or even zero) cost changes, through to longer term improvements in equipment and infrastructure.

Solar4Schools has been designed to help primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and universities apply for half price solar energy systems by providing advice for solar PV projects under the government's Low Carbon Buildings Programme.

Foundation gathers up donations from people and businesses and uses them to support individual carbon reduction projects across the Northwest. From energy saving measures to mossland restoration, these seemingly small projects make a much bigger impact, together.

The Scheme will provide interest free loans to pay for the installation of a wide range of energy efficiency measures across the public sector estate providing 100% support in making further progress towards reducing their energy bills and carbon emissions.

The Green Fund awards grants to organisations who apply for funds to help cover the cost of renewable energy technology that can be used to produce green energy from the sun, wind, water, wood and other renewable sources.

Grants are available to community groups and not for profit organisations that wish to consider and implement sustainable energy projects in their buildings.