Scotland's Heat Network Fund: application guidance

Programme rules

The following rules form part of the agreement between your business and SHNF. Please ensure that you fully understand and accept the following: 

• the lead organisation must ensure that proper and early warning is provided to the SHNF team of any problems that may be developing with the organisation/project 

• the lead organisation must agree with the SHNF team the nature and frequency of returns needed to keep it adequately informed of the project's situation 

• the lead organisation agrees to confirm in writing acceptance of any offer to procure a service by the SHNF and agrees that the offer will expire after a 2-month period

Successful projects : grant claims 

Grant recipients will be able to claim their grant after they have demonstrated that eligible spend has occurred. Evidence to be provided includes invoices to show spend on eligible capital items and a bank statement to show payment to the relevant payee.  

Grant recipients must demonstrate they continue to meet the conditions of the grant prior to claiming. 

Successful applicants will be provided with further guidance on the grant claim process after a grant offer letter has been agreed.            

Monitoring 

The SHNF will monitor progress during the project’s delivery. Projects will submit monthly progress reports to and meet regularly with Scottish Government officials and our client engineer contractor. 

As a condition of the grant funding, projects must meet post-commissioning reporting requirements as part of the Scottish Government’s monitoring of SHNF supported projects.  

The monitoring will gather information on key agreed outcomes in the SHNF Grant Offer Letter, including carbon savings, affordability of heat provided and impact on supply chain.