Aims
The Environmental Transformation Fund (ETF) aims to encourage the development of low-carbon energy and energy efficiency technologies in the UK.
Full details of the Environmental Transformation Fund’s strategy, published in September 2008, are available here:
UK funds
Funds of up to £400 million have been allocated for the period 2008/09 to 2010/11 for the UK ETF.
International funds
How the ETF will be used
The ETF will be used to speed up the commercial use of low-carbon energy and energy efficiency technologies in the UK, raising their profile in the energy market. This should help to reduce the carbon intensity of energy production, and reduce overall energy demand – which is crucial if we want to achieve our climate change and renewable energy goals for 2020 and beyond.
Applying for funding
The ETF is not open to direct funding requests. Instead, schemes funded by the ETF, such as those run by DECC, and by others, such as the Carbon Trust, are publicised when funding is available.
Scope of the ETF
The ETF combines a number of Government low-carbon technology funding programmes that existed prior to the creation of the ETF itself, with new programmes. The range of these programmes is wide and includes:
- Carbon Trust’s innovation programme and funding for new low-carbon technology enterprises, together with loans both for the private and public sector (Salix Finance)
- Low Carbon Buildings Programmes
- Bio-energy Capital Grants and Bio-energy Infrastructure Schemes
- Offshore Wind Capital Grants Programme
- Marine Renewables Deployment Fund
- Carbon Abatement Technology Demonstration Programme
- Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Demonstration Programme
Contact Point
Jeremy MacKenzie, Science and Innovation Directorate
Jeremy.mackenzie@decc.gsi.gov.uk, telephone: 0300 068 6022, mobile phone: 07702 677891.
Related documents
Energy white paper: chapter 6 - research and development, demonstration and deployment, and skills