Social housing

Home Analytics is an extensive database we’ve developed for UK housing stock. With it, you can get an accurate and insightful profile of your housing stock and customers, right down to individual address level.

The unique dataset can help social housing providers plan, deliver, and monitor progress of programmes to improve energy efficiency, alleviate fuel poverty, and move towards net zero carbon.

Using our Portfolio Energy Assessment Tool (PEAT), you can then model and compare the outcomes for different retrofit scenarios based on your home energy data.

For out more about Home Analytics and our Portfolio Energy Assessment Tool.

We can offer you advice on sourcing funding through the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and Great British Insulation Scheme. We can also advise on how to make your properties more energy efficient and warmer for tenants.

For more information call Mark McArthur, ECO Support Manager, at mark.mcarthur@est.org.uk or 07507 642 263.

You can also call Home Energy Scotland for free, impartial advice on local schemes and support on 0808 808 2282.

The Green Network for Social Housing is a searchable archive of case studies from across Scotland. Case studies are submitted by members who have installed energy efficient and renewable measures as part of a social housing project. You can use the case studies to inspire your own social housing project.

A £300 million fund available over the next five years  to support the development and rollout of zero emission heat networks across Scotland. The scheme can support up to 50% of capital costs.

Provides grants to support feasibility studies and procurement support for heat networks.

A £200 million fund available from 2021-2026. The fund supports social landlords across Scotland to install zero emissions heating systems and energy efficiency measures across their existing stock to help progress towards Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing targets. Funding bids are invited over a number of rounds.

Supports energy efficiency measures measures for:

• EPC D-G rated owner-occupied properties.
• EPC E-G rated private rented properties, where households meet low income and benefit eligibility criteria and insulation.
• Some renewable energy heating measures in social housing EPC E-G properties (D-G for innovation measures).

More information on Energy Company Obligation (ECO4).

Will usually provide single measures to households in EPC D-G owner occupied and social rented properties, and EPC D-E private rented properties.

These households fall into two eligibility groups: general eligibility or low income.

More information on the Great British Insulation Scheme from Ofgem.

Provided energy efficiency and heating measures to low-income private sector households that:

• Meet various benefit eligibility criteria.
• Have SAP ratings of 72 or below.
• Live in Council Tax band A-E properties.

The scheme has now paused and has now been replaced with a successor programme on 2 October 2023.

Learn more about Heat and Efficiency in Scotland: Warmer Homes Scotland.

Scheme offering a range of energy efficiency measures in private sector lower council tax band properties (A-D), in areas that local authorities have proposed to the Scottish Government. Delivery is managed by local authorities, who procure contractors to carry out the works. Alternatively, they can partner with social housing providers to support works in private sector properties in conjunction with social housing programmes.

Discover more about the scheme.

Provides interest free loans and grants available to private sector owner occupiers installing various energy efficiency and heating measures. The scheme also provides loans to households that pay contributions to Warmer Homes Scotland or EES:abs measures.

Find out more about Home Energy Scotland.

Provides loans to private sector landlords for energy efficiency and heating improvements.

Learn more about the loan.

Provides grants to support feasibility studies and procurement support for heat networks.

Learn more about the support.