Low-Carbon Support for Businesses This grid details available national and regional support and funding for low-carbon business activity.
National Business Support & Funding Category
Description
Timelines & Eligibility
Smart Export Guarantee (SEG). A Government backed initiative that requires some (SEG licenced) electricity suppliers to pay small-scale generators (SEG generators) for low-carbon electricity exported to back to the National Grid.
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Eligibility: Businesses that have installed a renewable electricity generating technology under 5MW (such as Solar PV, wind, anaerobic digestion) and up to 50kW Your energy supplier may be obliged to offer a tariff and make payments to you as for micro CHP and grid exporting potential. you export energy to the National Grid.
See more on the Smart Export Guarantee here.
Green Gas Support Scheme. New anaerobic digestion biomethane plants receive financial incentives to increase the proportion of green gas in the gas grid.
Eligibility: Must be a plant producing biomethane via anaerobic digestion, which is injected into the grid.
See more information on the Green Gas Scheme and apply here. .
Timeline: Ends April 2025.
See more here.
Eligibility: The grant is available for some non-domestic buildings and homes in England and Wales. Eligibility: Business in England, investing in eligible green plant and machinery. This includes technologies such as solar panels, battery technology and heat pumps.
See more here.
Registered participants receive quarterly payments based on the amount of biomethane inputted to the gas grid Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS). Provides capital grant to support building decarbonisation. Grants are available for the installation of heat pumps and depending on circumstance, biomass boilers.
Business rates relief on Renewable Energy Technology. Targeted business rates exemptions for onsite renewable energy generation and storage.
Timeline: Closes November 2025.
1 V10 Date Issued: 23/06/2023