Home Energy Grants and Schemes

Save and Reward Home Insulation Scheme

One of the easiest ways to substantially save energy and cut your fuel bills is to fully insulate your home.

The Save and Reward Home Insulation Offer, provides discounted loft and cavity wall insulation to homeowners in Clackmannanshire.

Discounted costs

Examples of discounted insulation costs and fuel bill savings
3 Bedroom Flat or House	Scottish Gas subsidised price	Cost if you receive qualifying benefits	Annual Energy Bill Saving
Cavity Wall Insulation:	£250	Free	£90
Loft insulation (0-250mm)	£274	Free	£110

Working with Scottish Gas and the Energy Saving Scotland advice centre (ESSAC) , we are offering discounted insulation to save homeowners money on future fuel bills.

You don't need to be a Scottish Gas customer to benefit from this scheme.

This scheme is also available free to homeowners over 70 or to people on certain qualifying benefits. To find out if you qualify for the free insulation, please call the Energy Saving Scotland Advice Centre on 0800 512 012.

If you spend £250 installing cavity wall insulation or £274 installing loft insulation in your home, you'll qualify for a £75 reward paid direct to you by postal order from Scottish Gas once the work has been completed.

In addition, Clackmannanshire Council offer a further £50 reward to the first 100 householders who install both cavity wall and loft insulation. This will be paid direct to you once Scottish Gas has completed installing both measures.

There is also the option of interest free credit over 1 or 2 years (subject to status). This means that the savings on your fuel bill could pay for the installation costs.

Energy Assistance Packages

The Scottish Government has replaced their central heating programme and Warm Deal grant, with the Energy Assistance Package.

The package is a four stage process which aims to reach out to more people. It gives advice and support to help you maximise your income, reduce your fuel bill and make your home more affordable to heat.

Stage 1
- Provides energy advice on making your home as energy efficient as possible to help you reduce your energy bills.
- Available to everyone.
Stage 2
- Provides benefit, pension and tax credit check and advice to help you maximise your income, you could also be given help to access low cost energy tariffs.
- Anyone maybe referred, depending on circumstances.
Stage 3
- Provides free home insulation to make your home more energy efficient and easier to heat and keep warm.
  - You must be a homeowner, or in private rented accommodation and receive a qualifying benefit;
  - You or your partner must be over 70;
  - You or your partner must be over 75 and have no central heating.
Stage 4
- Provides enhanced energy efficiency measures such as heating systems and insulation measures for hard to insulate homes for people on low incomes.
  - You must be a homeowner or in private rented accommodation;
  - You or your partner are pensioners who have never had central heating installed;
  - You or your partner are pensioners in an energy inefficient home and you receive Guarantee Element of Pension Credit;
  - You or your partner are aged 75 or over and live in an energy inefficient home;
  - You have a child under 5 or a disabled child under 16 and you live in an energy inefficient home and receive qualifying benefits.