LCBP2 - Now Closed
Closed May 2010 - The Low Carbon Buildings Programme - Phase 2E (LCBP2E) was a Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) scheme offering grants for microgeneration installations by public sector and charitable organisations.
Grants were available for installations of up to a maximum of 300kW heat. Qualifying organisations could apply for 50% of the project cost of installing microgeneration technologies. Products and installers had to be selected from the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS). In regards to products solar thermal collectors certificated under the Solar Keymark scheme were also eligible. Biomass boilers and heat pumps between 45kW and 300kW listed on the Energy Technology List (part of the Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) Scheme were also used.
Qualifying organisations could apply for 50% of the project cost of installing microgeneration technologies. Grants were available for the purchase and installation of any combination of the following technologies, at one or more buildings within a site owned or leased by the applicant. For heat projects the limit was amended to support larger scale heat projects up to 300kWth. For electricity generating technologies, the maximum limit for each installation was 50kW in line with the definitions of microgeneration stated in section 82 of the Energy Act 2004 (phase 2 was closed to new applications for electricity generating technologies as of 3rd February 2010)
- Solar thermal hot water
- Ground source heat pumps
- Air source heat pumps
- Wood fuelled heating (Biomass Systems)
- Solar photovoltaic (PV)
- Wind turbines
- Small scale hydro power
The extended programme continued to provide grant funding to charitable organisations, community groups and the public sector.
- The upper limit for heat technologies was raised to 300kW.
- Organisations could apply for up to 50% of the cost of installing approved technologies up to a maximum of £200,000 (though maximum grant levels depended on the nature of the organisation).
- There was a £13 million pot for solar PV, which had been increased from originally £9m.
- All other technologies benefitted from the remaining £21 million.
For details on current grant funding and financial incentives please call a member of our MCS team on 0844 414 60 41.
