The Boiler Upgrade Scheme provides a grant for private residents to cover part of the cost of replacing fossil fuel heating systems with a heat pump or biomass boiler. Fossil fuel heating systems include oil, gas, electric or LPG (liquefied petroleum gas).

One grant per property is available and current grant limits are as follows:

• £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

More information and how to apply is available through the Government website.