£9,000 heat pump grant in Plymouth
70 oil and 318 LPG heated homes in Plymouth sit off the gas grid, 0.4% of local properties.
How Plymouth compares
Mostly on the gas grid
Most homes in Plymouth have a gas connection, so the off-gas uplift applies to relatively few of them.
0% of homes here run on oil or LPG, against 4% across England and Wales. That ranks Plymouth 209 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.
How Plymouth heats its homes
Of 94,932 properties with a current certificate.
What the grant is worth here
£9,000 towards an air source heat pump for an eligible off-gas property. A home on the gas grid gets £7,500, so being off the grid is worth £1,500 more.
Eligible off-gas-grid properties. The installer must be MCS-certified and applies on the owner's behalf. Landlords are eligible.
Rented property in Plymouth
27 of the oil and LPG heated homes here are privately rented. Landlords are eligible for the grant, and these properties also face the EPC C deadline in 2030.
Other authorities in South West
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Bristol, City of
- Cheltenham
- Cornwall
- Cotswold
- Dorset
- East Devon
- Exeter
- Forest of Dean
- Gloucester
- Isles of Scilly
- Mid Devon
- North Devon
- North Somerset
- Somerset
- South Gloucestershire
- South Hams
- Stroud
- Swindon
- Teignbridge
- Tewkesbury
- Torbay
- Torridge
- West Devon
- Wiltshire