Energy Efficiency: Resources and Financial Support
Guidance and Reports
- The Scottish Government webpage on Energy Efficiency provides an overview of up-to-date government policy action. It has pages specific to Non-Domestic Buildings and Public Sector decarbonisation.
- London Energy Transformation Initiative’s (LETI) Climate Emergency Retrofit Guide is useful for local authorities looking for guidance about best practice retrofit. They also host a Whole Life Carbon webinar series to provide trainings.
- UK government’s Guide to making Retrofit Work (2014) discusses learnings and examples from their Retrofit for the Future campaign.
- Energy Efficient Scotland (EES) provides guidance for SMEs – applicable to the public sector – on steps they can take to improve the energy efficiency of their properties.
- The Public Building Energy Efficiency Report provides a deep-dive analysis of the energy performance and efficiency of public buildings in England and Wales.
Financial Support
The Scottish government has pledged £1.8 billion of capital funding over the course of this current parliament (2021-2026) for heat decarbonisation, allowing for the acceleration of energy efficiency upgrades and renewable heating deployment. The SSN Public Sector Funding Map provides a good summary table of all government funding available to public bodies; the relevant document pages on energy efficiency are p1-5.
The Scottish Central Government Energy Efficiency Grant scheme is the main government-led capital funding mechanism to support leadership for decarbonisation of public buildings. It provides capital funding to the public sector to enable retrofitting of energy efficiency and heat decarbonisation to existing buildings. It will distribute £200 million of capital support between 2021 and 2026.
The SALIX Finance Energy Efficiency Loan Scheme offers zero-interest loans to all public bodies to enable them to undertake retrofit energy efficiency improvement projects. This includes installing insulation and ventilation.
The UK Government’s BEIS has a Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, which provides grants for public sector bodies to fund heat decarbonisation and energy efficiency measures.
