A number of grant schemes and financial incentives are available to help subsidise the cost of Dimplex renewable energy installations across the uK and ireland.

Grants – UK Wide

Low Carbon Building Programme (Phase 1)

Open to households across the UK (except the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man), Phase 1 of the Low Carbon Buildings Programme demonstrates how energy efficiency and microgeneration can work hand in hand to create low carbon buildings. Grants of £400 or 30% of the relevant eligible costs are available to householders for the installation of solar thermal hot water.

For more information: www.lowcarbonbuildings.org.uk

Low Carbon Buildings Programme (Phase 2) – Extended

Phase 2 of the Low Carbon Buildings Programme provides grant funding for the installation of various microgeneration technologies – including solar thermal – by organisations in the UK public and not-for-profit sectors, including local authorities, housing associations, schools, colleges, community buildings, hospitals and registered charities. Organisations can apply for 50% of the cost of installing solar thermal technologies and the scheme is operating until April 2011.

For more information: www.lowcarbonbuildingsphase2.org.uk or email lcbp@dimplex.co.uk

Grants – Scotland

Communities and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES)

CARES provides capital grants for a range of renewable energy solutions of up to £150,000 for all legally constituted not-for-profit community organisations in Scotland.

For more information: www.communityenergyscotland.org.uk/cares

Dimplex Renewable Energy Finance

Dimplex Renewable Energy Finance has been specifically designed to help not-for-profit organisations including local authorities, schools and housing associations overcome the need for initial capital investment when installing renewable energy systems.

The scheme is designed to provide a solution for organisations looking to implement renewable energy technologies but for whom the initial capital outlay, even where grants are available, could make going ahead with the project an impossibility, by allowing investment costs to be repaid over a period of years, funded through the savings in energy costs the equipment will provide.

Benefits of the scheme include:

• Finances match funding for LCBP2 (or other grant schemes)
• Can be used in place of grants to cover entire project costs
• Project costs covered in full with no up-front capital outlay
• Investment costs recovered from energy cost savings on an ongoing basis
• Allows project schedules to be accelerated by removing budgetary constraints
• Flexible payment schedules and accounting structure based on client needs