Green Home Systems has been approved to deliver energy saving measures to residents throughout Argyll & Bute as part of the national ECO4 fuel poverty scheme.
The energy efficiency specialist will help households seeking to access free and low cost energy efficiency measures such as insulation, renewable heating and solar panels, by identifying applicants, allocating funding, and delivering the projects.
ECO4 is the UK Government’s flagship energy efficiency programme that aims to tackle fuel poverty and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from homes by providing free or heavily subsidised energy efficient home improvements.
The guidelines permit each local authority to develop its own eligibility criteria for applicants called “ECO4 Flex”, and this means that councils can assist fuel poor residents by developing bespoke eligibility routes that best serve the local population.
ECO4 Flex is not just for those receiving state benefits, and the local authority flexibility widens the eligibility criteria out to households with:
- Total household income of less than £31,000; or
- Children in receipt of free school meals; or
- Council Tax reduction due to a low income; or
- Health conditions, a disability or mobility issue.
Argyll & Bute Council appointed Scarf, a fuel poverty charity, to manage the scheme locally, and Green Home Systems have been appointed to install measures as an approved ECO4 Flex installer.
Established in 2014, Green Home Systems has considerable experience delivering ECO4 measures to households, and currently has 19 local authority ECO4 Flex partnerships in operation across Scotland.
Green Home Systems is an accredited energy efficiency specialist holding multiple industry qualifications and provides a wide range of energy efficiency services including thermal insulation, solar panels and heat pumps.
Green Home Systems sales director, Graeme Kerr, said:
“Argyll and Bute is an area with above average levels of fuel poverty and we are really excited to be able to offer residents ECO4 grant funded energy efficiency measures to help lower their energy bills. With the expanded ECO4 Flex criteria it is not just families on state benefits who can now apply.
We are keen to raise as much awareness about this as possible, and are now calling on all private households in Argyll and Bute to contact us to check their eligibility. This includes private homeowners, private renters, private landlords and their letting agents.
We can provide free insulation, solar panels, heat pumps and electric storage heaters, and now have the flexibility to unlock considerable levels of grant funding to many households and not just those receiving state benefits.”
Green Home Systems has been operating since 2014 and is one of Scotland’s leading energy efficiency installers. Over the last decade it has completed more than 20,000 retrofit projects, including 10,000 solar panel installations, and unlocked over £50M of grant funding for homeowners and communities.
If you would like more information or to apply for an ECO4 Flex grant please complete our funding eligibility form here.
