Energy and sustainability
Energy Efficient Highland
We want to improve the quality and condition of properties in the Highlands by providing free and impartial support for domestic buildings.
The Energy Efficient Scotland: Area Based Scheme (EES:ABS) programme provides significant Scottish Government grant funding to Highland residents, offering energy efficiency measures which may lower fuel costs and improve living conditions for the household.
The Energy Company Obligation Flexible Eligibility (ECO4 Flex) and Great British Insulation Scheme Flex (GBIS Flex) provides funding for domestic properties towards energy efficiency upgrades for householders in fuel poverty and on low income and vulnerable to cold.
Find out which funding you may be elgibile for:
Further information booklets:
- External Wall Insulation
- Cavity Wall Insulation
- Loft Insulation
- Internal Wall Insulation
- Ventilation
- Air Source Heat Pump
- Solar PV
Contact us
To register interest, call Home Energy Scotland free on 0808 808 2282.
You can also register interest by contacting the team.
Air Source Heat Pump video
Partnership with SSE Renewables
Our work is in partnership with Home Energy Scotland, who offer free and impartial advice to householders who are interested in improving the energy efficiency of their home.
Highland Council and SSE Renewables have joined forces to help Highland households facing extreme fuel poverty make energy saving adaptations to their homes.
The Cost-of-Living Crisis is having a devastating impact on households across Highland. Highland Council has been delivering the Scottish Government’s Energy Efficient Scotland – Area Based Scheme for over ten years, which offers households the opportunity to benefit from grant funded innovative, energy efficiency measures, which have the potential to improve people’s living conditions.
The scheme has now received vital grant support from SSE Renewables Highland Sustainable Development Fund (£1 million), which will provide additional funds to reduce or remove entirely householder contributions for those in extreme fuel poverty.
Related Downloads
- Biodiversity
- Pending Works Schedules
- ECO Flex Documents
- Examples of completed works
- Energy Efficient Scotland: Area Based Scheme
- External wall Insulation case studies
- Awards
- Renewables case study
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Environmental Health Food Business Advice
- Pre-Packed Foods Labelling Advice
- Growing Our Future - A Community Food Growing Strategy for Highland
- Planning guidance
- Committee paper - item 11
- EV Infrastructure Vision
- Caol and Lochyside FPS Community Liaison
- 2021 Highland Climate Change Conference Downloads
- Strategic Tourism Infrastructure Development Plan
- Food Safety Guidance
- Scotways Newsletter Summer 2023
- Highland Nature Biodiversity Action Plan 2021 to 2026
- Strategic Environmental Assessment Screening Report and Letter of Determination
- Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES) Delivery Plan
- Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES) Executive Summary
- Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES)