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The programme provides free energy assessments (audits) and grants of between £1,000 to £100,000 for eligble SMEs in the West Midlands Combined Authority area.

The BEAS programme helps businesses:

• lower energy bills
• reduce carbon emissions
• improve sustainability

Check if your business is eligible for a grant

You can only request a grant for items identified as energy saving measures in the energy audit report, with a payback period of at least 2 years.

You must complete your project within 3 months, including claiming the grant. For high value, more complex projects, timescales may be negotiable.

The grant funding is aimed at owner occupiers. If you lease your business premises, you must have a minimum of 3 years remaining on the lease.

If you received BEAS funding as part of the 2024/25 programme, you can apply to this programme if:

• you did not receive a grant over £100,000
• there are still audit recommendations that you have not implemented

The grant is match funded

You will need to provide the difference between the grant funding you apply for and the remaining cost of your project. 

This is known as match funding.

The BEAS grant is 50% matched up to £100,000.

You can source match funding from:

• the private sector
• loans
• overdrafts
• savings
• company funds

These would be an eligible match.

Match funding must be secured, and in place, before you receive approval for your BEAS application.

You cannot source match funding from:

• other public sector funding
• asset finance or similar financial products involving a financial arrangement where an item is paid for in instalments of more than the 3 months allocated for the project, as this does not provide full evidence of defrayed expenditure

These would not be an eligible match.

Eligible costs

You can use the grant for a wide range of energy-saving measures, including:

• solar panels - maximum £50,000 grant at a 50% intervention rate
• ventilation systems - fans, distribution, destratification fans
• heating upgrades - replacement boilers, burners, heat pumps
• energy-efficient lighting - LED, controls, sensors
• refrigeration improvements
• insulation enhancements
• recycling and waste management - compactors, balers, crushers
• water management solutions

This list is not exhaustive and may be subject to changes.

You can engage consultants to help you complete your BEAS grant application form. However, you cannot include the cost of using consultants or third parties in the project costs foryour grant application.

How the grant is paid

The approved grant paid will be paid retrospectively, after you provide invoices and evidence of payment. Therefore, you will need to provide evidence that you have the financial capacity to complete the project that you have requested grant funding for.

If you need more information

For 天美传媒, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Walsall and Wolverhampton based businesses, email: wmgp@birmingham.gov.uk

For Coventry based businesses, complete  or email: business@coventry.co.uk

Page last updated: 5 August 2025