As a result of  the popularity of the Energy Saving Scotland home renewables grant scheme and the high  demand, the scheme has closed to all new applications.
The Energy Savings Trust (EST) have advised that anyone applying for a grant before at 5.30pm on Friday 23rd July 2010 will be put on a waiting list. [...]

Thanks to funding from Community Energy Scotland, we have now received this toolkit for any size of community to use for an initial assessment of whether the retrofitting of biomass fired district heating is likely to be feasible in your particular situation. The toolkit is in three parts, an initial Introduction to Biomass Heating , [...]

[ May 24, 2010; ] On 20th April, the Scottish Government announced that £2 million would be available for a boiler scrappage scheme for Scotland.

The Scottish Boiler Scrappage Scheme will provide up to 5,000 households in Scotland with working “G-rated” boilers with a voucher worth £400 off the price of a new, modern Energy Saving Trust (EST) Recommended boiler.

The [...]

The BeGreen project has launched a new grant initiative which means you might be able to get up to £1000 worth of energy efficiency measures in your home. The project is supported by local councillors Paul McClennan, Norman Hampshire and Jacqui Bell who state that East Lothian Council are fully behind it. The project has also [...]

[ April 20, 2010; 10:00 am; ] Dunbar Grammar school’s very own Dragon’s Den competition which was held recently at Dunbar Grammar school was a roaring success said Head teacher Paul Raffaelli. The competition which was sponsored by the BeGreen project was run along the lines of the famous Dragon’s Den BBC T.V. series where “would- be entrepreneurs” pitch their business ideas to [...]