Smart Export Guarantee Scheme

The Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) is designed to ensure small-scale generators are paid for the renewable electricity they export to the national grid. You may be eligible to apply if you have one of the following:

• solar PV panels
• a wind turbine
• hydro
• anaerobic digestion
• micro combined heat and power (micro-CHP)

Boiler Upgrade Scheme

The government is offering grants to homeowners to install low carbon heating systems such as heat pumps, through the Boiler Upgrade Scheme. These grants can help with the upfront cost of low carbon heating technologies.

The scheme is open to domestic and small non-domestic properties in England and Wales.

You can get:

• £7,500 towards an air source heat pump
• £7,500 towards a ground source heat pump (including water source heat pumps and those on shared ground loops)
• £5,000 towards a biomass boiler.

ECO4 Flex Scheme

The energy company obligation scheme, known as ECO, helps to make homes more energy efficient by installing improvements, free of charge to eligible households.

Find out more by visiting our ECO4 Flex webpage.

Action on energy 

Action on Energy is a partnership of councils in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, including South Cambridgeshire District Council, that provides communities with advice and support for improving home energy efficiency. 

You can find more information and check eligibility requirements on the Action on Energy Website.