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The Energy Project Enabling Fund

The third round of our Energy Project Enabling Fund (EPEF) is now closed. 

Through round 3 of this programme, capital grants of between £30,000 and £245,000 were available to Community Energy Groups, Public Sector Organisations, charities, and other eligible organisations wanting to deliver local energy projects. 

This funding was provided by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero as part of their commitment to the Local Net Zero Hubs and has been allocated by the NEY Net Zero Hub to facilitate the development and delivery of local energy projects in the North East and Yorkshire region.

In October 2022, seventeen successful Energy Project Enabling Fund Projects were offered a combined grant award of £422,295.90, with an additional two projects being offered funding in November, resulting in an overall grant offer of £476,449.90 across nineteen successful EPEF projects. The additional £76,449.90 above the original grant pot of £400,000 was sourced from the Hub’s budget to ensure a wide range of the strongest proposals could be supported.

Successful projects are as follows:

  • Coastal Regeneration, Sewerby Methodist Church
  • Insulation, Solar Power and LED Lighting for St Augustine’s Centre, Halifax
  • Freedom House, The Basement Recovery Project
  • Mayford House Surgery Solar Project
  • Heat Decarbonisation of Two Oil Powered Ambulance Stations, Yorkshire Ambulance Service
  • Project Zephuros, Hartlepower
  • BBIC EV Project, Barnsley Business and Innovation Centre
  • Replacing Solid Fuel Heating System, The Edlington Hilltop Centre
  • Zetland Carpark Solar PV Scheme, Middlesbrough Council
  • St John’s Church Solar Panels Project
  • Ferryhill Football Renewables
  • Warm Welcome, St Margaret’s Parish Church, Frizinghall
  • Project EV Whitby, Whitby Group Practice
  • Solar PV installation – Stokesley School
  • Solar PV installation – Northallerton School
  • Slaley Commemoration Hall – Battery Storage Solution
  • FAR Community Centre
  • South Holderness In Need: Energy (SHIN:E) Project, South Holderness Methodist Circuit
  • GPCC Solar Project, Great Park Community Centre
In August 2023, ten successful Energy Project Enabling Fund Projects were offered a combined grant award of £535,423 and match funding of 675,408.62.

Successful projects are as follows:

  • Peacock & Verity Community Spaces
  • Yorkshire North and East Methodist District
  • Norham Community Energy
  • Hartlepool Borough Council
  • Acomb Parish Council Climate Change Sub-committee 
  • Wickersley Partnership Trust
  • South Tyneside Council
  • City of Doncaster Council
  • Community Action Northumberland
  • Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions 

In April 2025, four successful Energy Project Enabling Fund Projects were offered a combined grant award of £215,000 and they provided match funding of £419,745.90.

Successful projects are as follows:

  • Birley Health Centre
  • Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council
  • Bradford Trident
  • The Chapter of York