No, this must be new spend. Purchases must not be made, or committed to, prior to the grant being approved.

Community groups, not for profit organisations, voluntary or charitable organisations (except social enterprises) are ineligible for the grant.

No, all payments for approved expenditure must be made through the business bank account and supported by invoices/receipts from suppliers. Items or services paid for by cash do not meet audit trail requirements and are not eligible for grant.

Yes, a business can apply for a second EEF if the project improvements supported by the first grant has been completed, and the second grant will support further additional carbon reduction.

No, this will not impact your eligibility to apply.

The minimum grant that businesses can receive is £1,000 (requires eligible expenditure of £1,330).

The maximum amount you can apply for is £25,000.

The maximum amount you can apply for is £25,000, if eligible expenditure exceeds 75% (ie £33,333) of this you can still apply; however, the fund will only cover up to £25,000 of these costs.

No, the funding only includes costs excluding VAT. When submitting your application, include the costs before VAT is applied.

No we cannot recommend a particular supplier; however, the Energy Savings Trust have a useful renewables installer finder tool on their website.

You should be able to get information from the companies providing quotes on how efficient the heat pump is. For example, they may be able to give you an idea of how much electricity may be used. The CO₂e savings from heat pumps is slightly more complicated to calculate so we have provided some information below.

There will be two elements to your calculation for heat pumps you will need to show your electricity and heating source ie, gas baseline. It may be the case you are heating your premises using electricity and therefore only need to provide one baseline.

For the project scenario emissions again, you will need to calculate this for electricity and heating source (only electricity if your premises is heated this way). If the installer expects the heat pump to use an extra 15% in electricity, then you apply this to your baseline usage. For example, your baseline electricity is 20,000 kWh your project scenario electricity usage will be 23,000 kWh.

If your heating source is gas or oil, then your project scenario kWh usage will be zero as you are removing this heating source. Therefore, in this case your savings for this will be the emissions you stated for the baseline.

If you are heating your premises using electricity, then the heat pump will likely be more efficient than your current electrical heating source. The companies providing quotes should be able to provide more information on this.

A worked example is included below to give you a better idea of how to complete the calculation.

CO₂e savings = baseline minus (-) projected

Total baseline CO₂e emissions = Gas baseline (+) plus Electricity baseline

Total baseline CO₂e emissions: 5.49 + 4.25 = 10.74 tCO₂e

Total project scenario emissions = Gas projection plus (+) electricity projection

Total project scenario emissions: 0 + 4.88 = 4.88 tCO₂e

This is your baseline minus your project scenario: 10.74 - 4.88 = 5.86 tCO₂e

Please contact climatechange@falkirk.gov.uk if you need further support on this.