The Social Housing Net Zero Heat Fund provides support to registered social landlords across Scotland to install clean heating systems and energy efficiency measures across their existing stock.

Reducing emissions from our homes and buildings is one of the most important things we can do help end Scotland’s contribution to climate change.

We must rapidly scale up deployment of zero emissions heating systems, such as heat pumps and heat networks, as we stated in the Heat in Buildings Strategy. The Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 set legally binding targets for us to achieve Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, with interim targets requiring a 75% reduction by 2030, and 90% by 2040.

Our statutory fuel poverty targets are similarly ambitious, requiring that in 2040 no more than 5% of households are fuel poor and no more than 1% are in extreme fuel poverty. It is therefore imperative that, as we take action to cut emissions from Scotland’s homes, we do so in a way that supports and enables the eradication of fuel poverty.