The Hub has delivered a number of earlier national community energy funding programmes in the North East and Yorkshire, as well as supporting them with programmes of our own.
These projects have now seen over 130 local projects given the funding they need to start local energy and heat generation projects which their communities benefit from.
On this page you can find details of those programmes and organisations funded through them – alongisde video case studies of some of the projects we’ve supported!
The Community Energy Fund (CEF) was a national grant scheme for urban and rural communities to develop energy services to benefit their local area. The Fund was succeeded by the Great British Energy Fund.
Across three rounds of funding the following organisations received funding through the North East and Yorkshire Net Zero Hub.
The Hub secured three rounds of funding through the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero for capital grants of between £30,000 and £245,000 available to Community Energy Groups, Public Sector Organisations, charities, and other eligible organisations wanting to deliver local energy projects.
17 projects were offered a combined grant award of £422,296, with an additional two projects being offered funding in November, resulting in an overall grant offer of £476,450 across 19 projects.
A further four projects were offered a combined grant award of £215,000 – providing match funding of £419,746.
The Hub allocated £302,000 in funding from the Rural Community Energy Fund (RCEF) which supported community energy groups to progress innovative community energy projects in non-urban areas following successful feasibility studies.
The successful projects were:
