How Can the Energy Company Obligation (ECO3) Work For you?

June 29, 2021|3 minutes read
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Updated: Feb 21, 2023

Your home should be energy efficient with solutions that keep your property feeling comfortable and safe. However, for low income and vulnerable households, making the necessary heating upgrades is not always possible financially but you could be eligible for government funding through the ECO 3 scheme.

Here’s how the energy company obligation can work for you.

What is the ECO 3 scheme?

ECO 3 is the government’s umbrella term for its programme to make houses in the UK more energy efficient. The current scheme that launched in 2018 and continues to run until 2022, is focused solely on targeting energy efficiency measures in lower-income and more vulnerable households. The scheme works

with medium and larger energy suppliers who will fund the installation of energy-efficient upgrades including up to 35,000 broken heating systems per year.

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What kind of heating upgrades can you receive?

An accredited team like UK Energy Management (NE) Ltd will assess your home to find the best solution for your heating needs. The types of ECO 3 upgrades available include:

● Gas boiler, LPG boiler and electric heating replacement

● Cavity wall insulation

● Under floor insulation

● Loft insulation

● Solid wall insulation

There are a range of options to suit all homes and requirements so you can make your property energy efficient.

Why is heating funding beneficial?

Everybody deserves an efficient heating system but if you are in need of an upgrade and need extra support covering the costs, the ECO 3 scheme is in place to help.

The ECO 3 scheme can benefit you in the following ways:

● You can receive a free boiler or heating upgrade with no contribution.

● Your home will become more energy efficient compared to living with old or faulty installations.

● Your property will be warmer and safer especially for households with vulnerable residents.

● Energy bills can become more affordable across the year.

● Efficient heating installations will benefit you for years to come.

If you require a heating upgrade, the energy company obligation is in place to help people save money by reducing energy bills, keeping homes warm and reducing carbon emissions. Find out if you’re eligible today and experience the range of benefits of energy-efficient heating.

At UK Energy Management (NE) Ltd, our expert team will work alongside you to access the heating upgrades that you are eligible for. As part of the ECO 3 scheme, our relationships with large utility companies allow us to fund a range of energy-efficient solutions so you can save money and lower your bills. Simply complete our online survey and we will be in touch directly to start your funding application.

UPDATE: The ECO 3 Scheme has now been replaced by

the ECO 4 scheme. Find out more here.

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We need to check you are eligible for the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and/or Great British Insulation Schemes (GBIS) and/or Land Registry (LR). To do this, for ECO and GBIS we would like to share your information with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) via Energy Saving Trust who will verify whether or not you are receiving the relevant benefits to be eligible for either scheme. To check the ownership of your property as registered with HM Land Registry, we need to submit your information through an online checking service provided by the Energy Saving Trust (EST). This will enable us to securely verify the property’s private ownership against the data on the register. EST will not use this data for any other purpose.

Please note that it is not possible for Energy Saving Trust or us, the company using this service, to see which benefits you are through this service. DWP will only confirm whether you are in receipt of a qualifying benefit, not which one. This will not have any impact on future benefit payments.

If you do not want us to share your data with DWP via Energy Saving Trust, you will be required to provide copies of documents that provide proof of the benefits you are in receipt of from the DWP.

If you go on to receive funding through ECO4 or GBIS your data may be audited by Ofgem and/or your Energy Supplier to ensure a valid eligibility check has been completed for you. For full information on what will happen to the data we collect about you, please refer to the privacy notices from your Energy Supplier and installer, Energy Saving Trust, DWP, and Ofgem.

By ticking the box below, and providing your details, you agree to share this data with the DWP via Energy Saving Trust.

You can contact us to withdraw your consent for us to share your data with DWP via Energy Saving Trust. If you withdraw consent, the collected data will continue to be processed, however no new data will be collected or used for further processing. We will be required to keep a record of any data already processed for the purposes of Ofgem audits however your data would only be audited in cases where you have received funding from ECO4 or GBIS. Data relating to ECO4 and GBIS eligibility checks will be retained until 30 September 2026 unless otherwise notified by Ofgem.

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Fully funded solutions to improve your homes energy efficiency

Find out if you are eligible for 100% FREE energy efficiency upgrades, simply entering your postcode:
Don't worry, many homes do not have a current EPC certificate. Let's find your address from the Royal Mail instead:

Your address does not have a valid EPC certificate

Don't worry, whilst your property doesn't have a current Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) we can still check your eligibility by taking some more details from you. Just click next button to proceed.

Your rating score is:

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C
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G
Due to the EPC rating of your property, your home's rating is unlikely to be improved by the measures we install. We are sorry that we cannot help you further in this instance.
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The lower your home's energy efficiency rating, the more money the government make available for you to improve it.
Unfortunately ECO4 funding is not currently available directly to the occupant of Social housing.

Please contact your Local Authority directly for more information on how to improve the Energy Efficiency Performance of your home.

We are sorry we could not help you further