Launched in September 2020, the £1.5 billion Green Homes Grant scheme is the government’s flagship energy efficiency scheme, which is now rumoured to be facing its last days.
The scheme – intended to help finance 600,000 energy efficiency measures has appeared to labour in its delivery with only 22,000 grants issued to date. The scheme was originally intended to come to an end in March 2021 before the government extended it to the end of March 2022.
The scheme has been ladened with administration issues which has seen some installing companies left unpaid and many companies turning their back on the scheme as they believe it to be too costly and involving too much red tape and risk.
Despite this rumour, the department of Business, Energy and Industry Strategy today has confirmed that the Chancellor will still announce that the scheme will have £320 million of support in the next financial year, therefore committing to the continuation of the scheme.
Whilst the scheme has certainly had it’s problems, from speaking to companies involved in the process, it appears that the administration is getting better and that the rate at which the vouchers are issued are increasing. That the Government are willing to fund energy efficiency measures as part of the UK’s strategy on climate change is very much a positive thing and should be seen this way, particularly in a year where the UK hosts the COP 26 (UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties).
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