Central Government
About the Scheme

The Scheme will provide interest free conditional grants to pay for the installation of a wide range of energy efficiency measures across the central government estate – providing 100% support in making further progress towards reducing their energy bills and carbon emissions.

  • All central government, trading funds , executive agencies and NDPB’s are eligible to apply.
  • This funding is a capital grant from the private sector and thus can and should be scored in your budget as negative CDEL, offsetting the expenditure when it is incurred, in line with paragraph 7.3 of the Consolidated Budget Guidance 2009-10.
  • Conditional Grants will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
  • The minimum amount available is £5000 per application with no upper limit providing all projects can be completed within 9 months of agreed application.
  • The conditional grants will be interest free.
  • The conditional grants should cover the total cost of the project and no match funding is required.
  • Conditional grants will be available for around 80 different energy efficiency technologies, including building insulation, boiler and lighting upgrades and IT energy efficiency improvements.
  • Conditional grants will be repayable and in accordance with Salix’s terms of the grant, a sum equivalent to the grant is repayable to the Treasury in 8 equal six monthly instalments.
  • The repayments should be covered from the energy savings achieved by the projects and organisations can keep all the savings generated once the conditional grant is repaid.