School Solar Enabling Fund
What is the School Solar Enabling Fund?
The School Solar Enabling Fund is a £150,000 investment scheme providing capital grants to schools and education providers within the North East and Yorkshire Net Zero Hub’s geography to fund a viability gap preventing the delivery of solar energy projects.
The School Solar Enabling Fund is a £150,000 investment scheme providing capital grants to schools and education providers within the North East and Yorkshire Net Zero Hub’s geography to fund a viability gap preventing the delivery of solar energy projects. The NEY Net Zero Hub geography covers the North East, Tees Valley, York and North Yorkshire, Hull and East Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire.
Grants of between £5,000 and £10,000 were available to eligible schools and learning providers. These funds have been provided by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (formally BEIS) to deliver enabling works and meet viability funding gaps to leverage investment for school’s solar projects across the North East and Yorkshire region. The School Solar Enabling Fund was live from August 2022 until March 2023, with all funding committed by successful applicants, and all projects delivered, by March 2023.
In November, nine successful School Solar Enabling Fund projects were offered a combined grant award of £85,810. The nine successful schools had an overall combined project cost of £736,719.
Successful projects are as follows:
- Abingdon Primary School
- Ashfield Primary School
- Montalbo Nursery and Primary School
- Shakespeare Primary School
- Shadwell Primary School
- Scholes Elmet Primary School
- Thorner CoE Primary School
- Hartside Primary School
- Whale Hill Primary School
Case studies for each of the successful School Solar Enabling Fund projects will be available following the completion of the programme.
