Scotland’s Public Sector Heat Decarbonisation Fund will provide grant funding for local authorities, universities, and arms-length external organisations to progress whole building approach projects that decarbonise heating systems and improve the overall energy performance of their buildings.
Closed
29/04/2025
27/05/2025
The application portal for projects delivering in the 2025/2026 financial year closed at 2:00 p.m. on 27 May 2025.
Over the next eight weeks we will be assessing your applications, please keep an eye on your email inbox for queries from our assessors. It's important that queries are answered promptly. This will enable us to maintain our proposed timelines and issue grant offer letters by the end of August 2025.
If you have any queries about the fund please contact our Scotland team at ScotlandGrants@salixfinance.co.uk.
Scotland’s Public Sector Heat Decarbonisation Fund will provide grant funding for local authorities, universities and arms-length external organisations to progress whole building approach projects that decarbonise heating systems and improve the overall energy performance of their buildings.
The Scottish Government has made grant funding available within this financial year for projects to decarbonise their heating systems. This will allow organisations to implement clean heating systems, and for retrofit energy efficiency measures to support the overall decarbonisation of heat in buildings.
Please have a look at the accompanying documents to discover more about the fund, including eligibility and criteria.
Scotland’s Public Sector Heat Decarbonisation Fund has two strategic objectives:
There are some changes that have been made to Phase 2 of Scotland’s Public Sector Heat Decarbonisation Fund. Please have a look at the guidance notes, below, for full explanation of this grant. The main changes are;
Public sector bodies that are subject to the Public Bodies Duties in the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 are eligible to apply for this grant. These organisations remain subject to the existing procurement rules such as the Public Contracts (Scotland) regulations 2015.
Eligible bodies include:
