Applications for the next wave of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) open in September 2022, with Aico offering to help housing providers with their bids for funding.
The SHDF is a £3.8 billion programme to help housing providers fund improvements to the energy performance of their property portfolios. This latest wave of funding includes the provision of digitisation, such as IoT-based sensors in properties, as part of housing providers’ bids for funding.
The UK government’s department for business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS) identified, “The use of smart technology, sensors and monitoring platforms to collect relevant real-world data (from the properties being retrofitted) for the assessment of properties to enable retrofit, or after retrofit for monitoring and evaluation purposes.”
Aico said that its HomeLink Portal can give housing providers an overview of the performance of their housing stock so they can compare their properties, identify the worst performing to target first, and monitor how installed measures have impacted their homes.
Please see aico.co.uk/social-housing-decarbonisation-fund for details of Aico’s help with SHDF bids.
