BOILER UPGRADE SCHEME - by ADLår
The current government funding only has funding to cover 90,000 homes. Make sure you take advantage of the £7,500 BUS Scheme now. £7,500 represents roughly 80% of the cost. Below you can learn about the program and check your eligibility or take our questionnaire and let us check it for you.
BOILER UPGRADE SCHEME - LIMITED TIME ONLY
The current government grant has enough funding for roughly 90,000 homes ONLY. It also has a three year time limit.
This is not a lot, so we’re encouraging customers to take advantage of it as soon as possible.
Apply for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme: Check if you’re eligible – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
You’re eligible for a grant if all the following are true. You must:
- own the property you’re applying for (including if it’s a business, a second home, or a property you rent out to tenants)
- have installed (or plan to install) your new heating system on or after 1 April 2022
- be replacing fossil fuel heating systems (such as oil, gas or electric)
You’re still eligible if you’ve already had funding to make your property more energy efficient, for example by insulating it.
Apply for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme: Check if you’re eligible – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Your property must have a valid Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) with no outstanding recommendations for loft or cavity wall insulation.
Find out what to do if your property has recommendations for loft or cavity wall insulation.
If you’re not sure whether your property is suitable for a low carbon heating system, speak to an MCS certified installer (Adlår). They can tell you about your options.
Apply for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme: Check if you’re eligible – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
You cannot get a grant for:
- most new build properties
- social housing
- a property that’s already been given government funding or support for a heat pump or biomass boiler
- To replace a low carbon heating system.
Apply for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme: Get help – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
You can also contact Ofgem if you need help with the Boiler Upgrade Scheme.
Ofgem
BUS.enquiry@ofgem.gov.uk
Telephone: 0330 053 2006
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30am to 4:30pm
Wednesday, 9:30am to 12:30pm
Friday, 9:30am to 4pm
You can get one grant per property:
- £5,000 towards an air source heat pump
DON't MISS OUT:
- Adlår’s installers are MCS accredited
- We check your eligibility
- We do a detailed site survey under MCS guidelines
- We apply for your MCS BUS Scheme for you
- We certify and get you your £7,500
Check your eligibility yourself:
QUICK check
You must have property rights to outdoor space at your property either on the:
- Ground floor (1m away from the property boundary);
- Wall space (on the ground floor if it will face a public highway, or any suitable wall facing away from a public highway);
- Flat roof (with 1m space to the edge of the roof) to place the pump?
*Dimensions required: 1,100 * 445 * 850 (L*D*H)
If your house is within a Conservation Area or World Heritage Site we cannot install the pump on a wall or roof facing a public highway. You must therefore have space not facing a highway.
Only your first ASHP is covered under permitted development. The heat pump must also be replacing an existing fossil fuel based system.
Permitted development does not apply for Listed Buildings or within a site designated as a Scheduled Monument.
If your EPC isn’t up-to-date we have partner companies who will survey your house and update your certificate. We make all the arrangements.
The only requirement is that the EPC doesn’t recommend you update your cavity wall or roof need insulation. Again, if it does, we can arrange this for you as well.
We recommend you check with the following parties before installing your ASHP
- The property owner
- Your mortgage provider
- Your mortgage provider may subsidise the cost of installation for you.
- Insurance provider
- Local planning authorities if your property falls under either of these categories:
- Listed building
- Conservation area
Learn about the Boiler upgrade scheme
From May 2022 the government launched the BUS Scheme. It is a three-year scheme with £450 million available, with the aim to hand out 30,000 grants per year.
Using data from MCS, the body in charge of the program, the scheme is currently far behind targets. The government grant gives roughly 50% of the cost, and combined with a cost of energy crisis this scheme should much more popular.
From our position, the core reasons for this are:
- Lack of publicity: The government hasn’t publicised the scheme nearly enough. There are finally now talks of a nationwide media campaign, but we are still yet to see this.
- Installers: we are also experiencing a shortage in skilled craftsmen. Getting to the government targets requires a lot more people are trained in this technology and to do this to the right standard takes time.
- The cost of living crisis: during tough times it is hard to want to invest in new heating systems. Planning ahead is very hard when the day-to-day is difficult enough. We understand this at Adlår and offer payment schedules and walk you through your payback periods to understand if it is right for you.
- Lobbying: unfortunately there is still a lot of lobbying by traditional gas boiler companies. Some of this is legitimate concern over their businesses, as they face difficult decisions about the future of employees and infrastructure invested in gas boilers. Regardless of this the gas boiler lobby is a strong one, and is definitely slowing down the adoption of heat pumps.
Comparing data from the EHPA, we can see the UK is quite far behind our cousins across the pond.
Heat pumps per 100,000 people:
- Norway – 29,745 heat pumps. With only a £1,100 grant the key to Norway’s success is information and a coordinated government push to renewables.
- Finland – 24,159 heat pumps. Finland installed 196,000 heat pumps in 2022, double from 2 years previously. This reduced greenhouse gas emissions by over 2 million tonnes.
- Sweden – 22,727 heat pumps.
The good news is Adlår comes out of Sweden and Holland, we use knowledge we obtained operating there in the UK. We’re investing in the UK because we believe the UK will become a leading nation in heat pumps.
The government wants to reach 600,000 installations by 2028, and we hope to help in achieving this.
Gas boilers will be banned in new builds from 2025, meaning all properties built after 2025 will not be allowed to fit gas boilers.
It will also apply to people replacing their old gas boilers. The natural choice for doing this will be heat pumps.
This move forms part of the government strategy on clean air and their heat and building strategy.
The UK government is committed to reducing carbon emissions and achieving net zero by 2050. Low carbon alternatives such as heat pumps are therefore going to be heavily promoted and gas boilers restricted in order to achieve this.
The UK government has committed to net zero by 2050.
Read more about the government strategies:
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Before purchasing the Aurora || we advise you to request a consultation first. This can be done using our form. Fill it in and we will contact you as soon as possible. With the help of your input, we can advise you which heat pump is best suited to your home so that you get the most return. Together, we will then move towards a future with fewer CO2 emissions!