Electric Storage Heaters
These grants are designed to benefit those on low income who have an existing, inefficient electric heating. The grants are awarded directly to obligated installers, companies that have committed to delivering the government’s ECO policy.
The amount that you can get for a grant will depend on a wide range of different factors. Assuming you are eligible, this could include the size and type of property you live in, whether you have solid walls or cavity walls, and how well insulated your home is. Typically, the bigger energy savings you can achieve with a new installation, the higher the grant you are likely to get.
When the installer assesses your application for the storage heater grant in most cases they will also check whether you might be entitled to insulation grants such as loft insulation, roof insulation, cavity wall insulation, solid wall insulation (including both internal wall insulation and external wall insulation) and underfloor insulation.
Often if insulation is available at your property and you’d like it to be installed, the installer will make arrangements for the insulation to be installed alongside the upgrade to your electric heating.
Is there a limit to how many grants I can claim?
Homeowners can apply for different grants to cover any installations under the ECO scheme. That means you could apply for an electric storage heater grant and an insulation grant, for example, or something else that is covered under the agreement.
You cannot apply for the same measure twice or two similar installations (such as two different heating grants).