Providing Easy Access For Contractors To ECO Funding

Effective Energy Solutions helps contractors gain effortless access to the funding that is needed to install the home energy efficiency improvements that our communities need.

Contractors

Carbon Lowering

ECO 4 Funding

GBIS

Retrofit -Co-Ordination

Through energy efficient improvements, installations and innovations, we empower our customers to make more sustainable choices. Choices that save time and money as we all work towards net zero.

And we do this with a heart.

We have cared about improving the lives of many from day one. From accessing grant funding for low income households to supporting local and national contractors. We exist to make a sustainable difference one home, one community, one business at a time. To help everyone use less, lose less and generate their own energy.

Why work with Effective Energy Solutions?

Effective Energy was formed in 2008 to help companies in meeting carbon saving
obligations and others tasked with delivering energy saving measures.

Experienced & knowledgeable ECO compliance team

Trusted payment terms

Strong energy supplier relationships

Dedicated contract management support

Full ECO Compliance Training along with excellent office support

A full ‘hand holding’ service

Effective Energy Solutions also help to transform homeowners’ lives by providing ECO funding
to vulnerable homes in England, Scotland & Wales.

Our services go further to help heating, insulation and renewable installers with government funding and compliance.

Energising Sustainable Communities

We work hard to make everyday life easier for our contractors. Helping make sure their customers get the help that’s available – and all the benefits of lower carbon emissions and reduced fuel bills

Big impacts with little effort for our customers…

UK homes transformed since 2008

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Our network of over 60 energy professionals

Effective Energy Solutions are working with installers, contractors, local authorities, social housing and landlords in communities across the UK, with the ultimate aim of…

Saving energy

Tackling fuel poverty

Cutting carbon

By helping communities access funding - and fast

Our Values

Powering energy services forward

Experience drives us forward as we look for new and innovative ways to help our customers save money, cut carbon and use energy more efficiently.

Investing in a better way

We work alongside like-minded businesses that are good for the planet, from selling solar energy to innovative energy technologies.

Seamless service delivery

Our breadth of services and expert support can help organisations secure funding to upgrade housing stock and reduce its carbon footprint – in one hit.

What we do for homeowners

Sustainable upgrades and energy efficient living doesn’t have to cost the earth – it could be free. We can even help you get a grant or funding.

What we do for organisations

As one of the UK’s leading energy efficient solutions providers, we offer an unrivalled, impartial service across all sectors.

Interested in a strategic partnership? Find out more about our journey to Net Zero

Timeline

These milestones have come from the hard work that we have carried out in previous ECO schemes, starting back in 2008 with Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT).

2008 - 2012

CERT required larger gas and electricity suppliers to achieve targets for reducing carbon emissions from domestic premises in Britain.

2009 - 2012

CESP started ran alongside CERT, designed to promote a ‘whole house’ approach and treat as many properties as possible in defined geographical areas; selected using the Income Domain of the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) in England, Scotland and Wales.

2013

The first of the government’s ECO schemes started with the emergence of ECO1. This had three main obligations which energy companies were required to meet. The obligations were the Carbon Emissions Reduction Obligation (CERO), the Carbon Saving Community Obligation (CSCO) and the Home Heating Cost Reduction Obligation (HHCRO).

2015 - 2017

The next scheme, ECO2, launched. Suppliers were required to achieve the following cost and carbon savings – 19.7 Mt CO2 under CERO, 6 Mt CO2 under CSCO and £6.46 billion under HHCRO.

2018 - 2022

ECO3 replaced ECO2t with a few changes in place, for those in receipt of a qualifying benefit or through the LA Flex scheme. Notable changes: ECO3 widens the criteria for First Time Central Heating (FTCH), with 15% of the ECO3 fund set aside for rural measures.

2022 - 2026

ECO4, the latest iteration of the Energy Company Obligation, commenced 1st April 2022 and runs until 31st March 2026. The scheme is designed to offer ‘whole house’ retrofit solutions to low income and vulnerable households. To complement ECO4, a new obligation called The Great British Insulation Scheme will also run alongside ECO4 to offer single insulation measures such as cavity wall and loft insulation.

The main objective of the government’s ECO4 scheme is to improve the least energy efficient housing stock occupied by low income and vulnerable households, thereby making progress towards the government’s statutory target of improving as many fuel poor homes as reasonably practicable to EPC band C by 2030, with an interim milestone of band D by 2025.