SME Loan and Cashback Scheme
Up to £30,000 in cashback grants for eligible equipment + up to £100,000 in interest-free loans, enabling businesses to fund solar photovoltaics (PV) to generate electricity.
What it covers
- Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning upgrades.
- Renewable heat technologies such as an air source heat pump.
- Improving insulation, draught-proofing, double glazing etc.
- Installing solar thermal systems, wind turbines and biomass boilers.
Who may be eligible
- Available to Scottish businesses, not-for profit organisations and charities that have been trading for at least a year and fall under SME criteria.
- Must be less than 25% owned by one or more other enterprises and have a holding of less than 25% in any other enterprise.
- Businesses must not have already completed or started work on your project.
What's offered
- A cashback grant of up to £30,000.
- 75% of eligible costs up to a maximum of £20,000 can be claimed for energy efficiency measures.
- 75% of eligible costs up to a maximum of £10,000 can also be claimed for a range of renewable heat measures (heat pumps, biomass boilers and solar thermal).



