Green Solutions funded by BEAS
Is your business looking for support on how to reduce your costs and become greener?
Green Solutions is a programme that offers support to businesses in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent to enable you to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Providing Free Energy Assessments and Grants of up to £100,000 for SMEs. The Business Energy Advice Service (BEAS) is a government-funded pilot programme designed to help businesses reduce energy costs and drive growth through free energy assessments and 50% match-funded grants.
You can access BEAS support for:
- Energy Assessment: This FREE Energy Assessment will look at your energy consumption and provide you with recommendations to save money and reduce your carbon emissions.
- Low Carbon Grant: A grant of between £1,000 and £100,000 (cover up to 50% of eligible costs) is available per business to implement any of the recommendations from the Energy Assessment. (Grant Application Deadline: 15th December 2025.)
Visit the SCC website to express your interest.
Green Loan Scheme
We are now offering businesses in Staffordshire the opportunity to spread the cost of implementing energy efficient measures to their premises with our new Green Loan Scheme.
Businesses who have had or who are undergoing an energy assessment will be able to apply for a Green Loan for 100% of the cost of the eligible report recommendations.
What we are offering:
- 100% upfront for implementing the eligible recommendations
- 2-4 year payback period
- Interest free
- No administration fee
- Loans from £5,000 up to £200,000
To express your interest please email lowcarbon@staffordshire.gov.uk
Carbon Literacy Training
To help your business reduce your costs and your carbon footprint at the same time, we are offering two FREE places per Staffordshire-based business (excludes Stoke-on-Trent area) on a Carbon Literacy Training course.
This FREE 8-hour training course will provide you the knowledge and skills to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. You can choose whether to attend an in-person, online course or the NEW E-Learning course; and the training is accredited by the Carbon Literacy Project. You can book your course place on our website.
The Tracker Tool
The Tracker tool is sben’s FREE online data monitoring and reporting tool that enables Staffordshire organisations to measure their energy use, fuel use, travel, water consumption, waste and energy generation.
Funded through Staffordshire County Council, developed by sben, and boosting the Environmental Quality Mark CIC, the Tracker tool is available to eligible Staffordshire organisations who are members of sben.
The Tracker tool will help businesses measure business data year on year, so they can focus their actions to reduce environmental impacts over time. A report will be generated for you to share with your board, colleagues, and customers to demonstrate your yearly progress.
Start your tracking journey now!
Staffordshire Green Skills for Growth
Staffordshire Green Skills for Growth looks at how we can support and grow Staffordshire’s green economy and ensure people have the skills to be successful in a more sustainable future. The project is run in partnership between Staffordshire County Council and Keele University and is part funded by Innovate UK.