The Public Sector Low Carbon Skills fund is designed to help public sector bodies boost their decarbonisation skills and take their first steps toward net zero carbon. The fund seeks to decarbonise the public sector by focusing on heating. One of the greatest barriers in meeting the UK’s 2050 Net Zero target is the way buildings are heated. Most of the buildings in the public sector are reliant on fossil fuel-based heating, and expert skills are required to identify and plan how these heating systems can be replaced, ideally at the end of their working lives.
A robust heat decarbonisation plan places organisations in good stead when it comes to achieving the next steps of decarbonisation, and the framework will allow organisations to apply for future grant funding or alternative funding sources for even more innovative decarbonisation measures.
Salix has used learning from delivering previous phases of the Low Carbon Skills Fund to drive operational efficiency and deliver more funding to those who need it most. The most important changes for potential applicants to note include:
As an experienced project engineering, project management and energy engineering consultancy, GEP Environmental has successfully delivered multiple projects including Heat Decarbonisation Plans (HDPs), energy and decarbonisation surveys and audits, detailed renewable feasibility studies, M&E Condition Assessments, Technical Project Lead and Project Management support across a range of Decarbonisation Energy Performance Contracts along with Measurement & Verification (IPMVP independent verification services). Why choose GEP for your LCSF5 project?
GEP are one of only six technical advisors appointed (October 2021) by DESNZ (formally BEIS)/Salix to undertake the technical due diligence of submitted PSDS applications along with evaluating design changes and monitoring and reporting of savings as the PSDS projects progress. This appointment is across a period until September 2025, after which it is to be expected that all projects funded under the recent PSDS3C & forthcoming PSDS4 will be fully evaluated. Our appointment under this framework does provide us with useful insight to the detailed requirements for each iteration of the PSDS funding rounds, and we are able to apply this knowledge when supporting our direct Public Sector clients. Please note that Salix operate a “conflict of interest protocol”, which ensures that the appointed Salix technical advisors cannot carry out PSDS technical due diligence services for a client whose application they have supported.
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