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Every UK scheme, and where it stands today

See current status, closing dates and eligibility limits. Each row links to its source.

Every UK solar and home energy scheme, and where it stands

Status

Nation

Scheme	Status	Where	Who qualifies	What you get	Deadline	Important conditions
ECO4	closing	Great Britain	Low-income households on qualifying benefits, or referred by a local authority under LA Flex.	A whole-house retrofit package delivered by an energy supplier’s contractor. Solar may be included as part of it.	31 December 2026	Solar is rarely funded on its own. ECO4 works on a whole-house basis and usually funds insulation or a heating measure first, with solar attached only where the modelling supports it. Pages promising "free solar panels through ECO4" are describing an outcome most applicants will not get.
Warm Homes: Local Grant	open	England	Privately owned home in England, EPC D to G, and any ONE of: an area in IMD income deciles 1–2 (no income check), low-income proxies such as qualifying benefits, or household income of £36,000 or less.	Energy efficiency and low-carbon heating measures, funded through your local authority. Solar panels are named explicitly among them.	Runs while local authority funding lasts	It is administered council by council, so the delivery partner, the opening date and the extra local criteria all differ by authority. There is no single national application, and "eligible" nationally does not mean available where you live. Social housing is not covered — that is the separate Social Housing Fund.
Warm Homes Plan	ongoing	UK-wide, with devolved delivery	Grants target low-income and fuel-poor households. The loan element is aimed more broadly, with fuller eligibility still to be published.	£15bn to upgrade up to 5 million homes by 2030, including solar PV and batteries. Up to £1.7bn of that goes to low- and zero-interest consumer loans.	Running now; schemes consolidate from 2027/28	The plan is already delivering through Warm Homes: Local Grant and the Social Housing Fund. These merge into a single low-income scheme from 2027/28. Per-household grant levels and full loan terms are not yet published.
0% VAT on domestic solar	closing	UK	Any domestic installation. No income or benefit test.	Zero-rated VAT on the supply and installation, rather than the 5% reduced rate.	31 March 2027, then reverts to 5%	It is not a grant and no one applies for it — a compliant installer simply zero-rates the invoice. The saving is real but modest, and it is not a reason on its own to rush a £7,000 decision.
Smart Export Guarantee	ongoing	Great Britain	Any MCS-certified installation up to 5MW with a smart meter capable of half-hourly export readings.	Payment for every unit you export, at a rate the supplier sets.	No end date	Suppliers set their own rate, and the spread is enormous. The best rates are frequently tied to taking your import from the same supplier, which can cost more than the export pays.
Solar Together	ongoing	Participating councils	Anyone in a participating local authority area during a registration window.	Group-buying scheme — a bulk-negotiated price, not a grant.	Runs in rounds; registration windows are short	Group buying is not funding. It can produce a good price, but it commits you to one installer chosen by the scheme, and independently obtained quotes sometimes beat it.
Home Energy Scotland	open	Scotland	Scottish homeowners, with the interest-free loan element income-tested.	Grant plus interest-free loan funding for renewables and efficiency measures.	Ongoing, subject to budget	Budgets are annual and can be paused mid-year. Confirm the current position with Home Energy Scotland directly before committing to an installer.
Nest	open	Wales	Welsh households on a low income living in an energy-inefficient home.	Free home energy improvements from the Welsh Government scheme.	Ongoing	Nest is heating-led. Solar appears far less often than the marketing around it suggests.
Northern Ireland schemes	open	Northern Ireland	Varies by scheme.	NI sits outside GB schemes entirely — different regulator, different network operator, no SEG.	Varies	Northern Ireland has no Smart Export Guarantee, and NIE Networks handles connections. Check that guidance is written for Northern Ireland rather than Great Britain.
Great British Insulation Scheme	closed	Great Britain	Closed to new applications.	Insulation measures. It never funded solar.	Scheduled to end April 2026	This scheme funded insulation only, never solar, and is closed to new applications.

This is one filterable table rather than a page per scheme per nation. Every row links to its full write-up where one exists, and every date is footnoted to gov.uk, Ofgem or DESNZ in the sources block below.

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