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Off‑Gas Grant

Where the £9,000 off-gas grant applies, postcode by postcode

£9,000 heat pump grant in Somerset

22,965 oil and 3,414 LPG heated homes in Somerset sit off the gas grid, 13.1% of local properties.

How Somerset compares

Heavily off the gas grid

Oil and LPG heating is far more common in Somerset than across England and Wales, so the £9,000 uplift applies to more homes here.

Least off-grid Most off-grid

13% of homes here run on oil or LPG, against 4% across England and Wales. That ranks Somerset 37 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Somerset heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 22,965
LPG Qualifies 3,414
Electric only Usually not 33,039

Of 201,717 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 Somerset

3,245 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.

Postcode districts in Somerset

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Somerset.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
TA7 Bridgwater 2,186 340 51.3%
BA22 Yeovil 1,843 251 33.0%
DT9 Sherborne 1,642 274 24.1%
TA3 Taunton 1,420 233 35.9%
TA4 Taunton 1,281 159 19.4%
TA5 Bridgwater 1,163 235 31.7%
TA24 Minehead 1,181 104 17.2%
TA19 Ilminster 1,065 186 29.4%
BA4 Shepton Mallet 1,017 106 19.0%
TA10 Langport 994 126 33.7%
TA20 Chard 888 124 13.2%
BA11 Frome 886 119 8.3%
BA3 Radstock 864 66 8.3%
BA6 Glastonbury 689 130 16.3%
TA21 Wellington 704 95 10.2%
TA11 Somerton 657 92 21.4%
BA5 Wells 633 93 10.1%
TA9 Highbridge 571 146 14.1%
BA8 Templecombe 574 113 46.1%
TA22 Dulverton 598 50 57.5%

Other authorities in South West