Hundreds of installers have been reminded to help deliver the £450m government Boiler Upgrade scheme as it goes live today (11 April).
Installers can sign up to deliver the scheme from midday. Then from 23 May householders and small businesses in England and Wales will get access to grants of up to £6,000 towards the cost of replacing traditional fossil fuel boilers with more efficient, low carbon heating technologies including heat pumps and biomass boilers.
By setting up an account early with scheme administrators Ofgem, installers will be ready to benefit by helping deliver up to 30,000 installations in the first year, a government reminder said.
Philippa Pickford, director of delivery and schemes at Ofgem, said: “We are delighted to be working with BEIS in administering the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) on behalf of government. Continuing to decarbonise heat is central to the delivery of Ofgem’s decarbonisation action plan.”
It added that social housing will not be eligible for support, and neither are new buildings, which are covered by existing legislation, except for self-built domestic properties.