Notice

Home Decarbonisation Skills Training competition: Phase 2 (closed to applications)

£8.85 million competition to fund training for people working in the energy efficiency and retrofit sectors.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Published: 25 July 2023
• Last updated: 14 August 2023 — See all updates

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Home Decarbonisation Skills Training competition Phase 2: guidance

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Home Decarbonisation Skills Training Competition Phase 2: clarification questions with responses (published 14 August 2023)

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Home Decarbonisation Skills Training Competition Phase 2: application form

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Details

Applications to the Home Decarbonisation Skills Training Competition Phase 2 are now closed.

Find out more about the successful Phase 2 projects.

The Home Decarbonisation Skills Training Competition Phase 2 will fund training for people working, or who want to work, in the energy efficiency and building retrofit sectors. The competition aims to increase supply chain capacity, both in terms of volume and skill level.

This increased supply chain capacity will support:

• the delivery of existing government retrofit schemes such as:
  
  • Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund
  • Energy Company Obligation
  • Great British Insulation Scheme
  • Home Upgrade Grant
• the decarbonisation of our buildings in support of the UK’s net zero carbon emissions target

The competition

£8.85 million will be available to training providers for programmes to deliver a suite of training solutions to support the energy efficiency and retrofit sectors.

A maximum of £1 million will be available for each competition project, subject to subsidy control restrictions. The number of projects funded will depend on the range of solutions proposed and the quality of the proposals received.

Successful projects will be expected to achieve one or more of the following:

• installation training to the specific technology standard - for example, National Occupational Standards, PAS 2030:2019 standards, PAS 2035 standards or higher.
• training in the installation of one or more individual energy efficiency measures, including training for individuals with existing construction skills and training for those new to the sector
• support for training in retrofit assessor and retrofit coordinator skills to PAS 2035 standard, leading to the relevant qualification

The Midlands Net Zero Hub are administering the scheme on behalf of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. For more information on the competition, contact them at HDTrainingCompetition@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.

Published 25 July 2023
Last updated 14 August 2023 + show all updates

1. 14 August 2023

   Added clarification questions with responses.

2. 28 July 2023

   The competition is now open to applications.

3. 25 July 2023

   First published.