Heat pump grant for electric heating
Storage heaters and other electric heating are not the oil and LPG uplift. The values notice lists them at £7,500 for air-to-water and ground source.
Key takeaways
- Electric heating that is not a heat pump has its own rows.
- Those air-to-water and ground source rows are £7,500, on or off the gas grid.
- Already having a heat pump is a different question, and we do not treat it as a fresh grant.
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£7,500
An air-to-water heat pump in England or Wales is the standard £7,500 grant when the £9,000 oil and LPG category does not apply.
A typical air-to-water install is often quoted around £10,000 to £16,000 before the grant, so the amount after a £7,500 grant would commonly sit around £2,500 to £8,500. That is a published range, not your quote.
See how quotes workThis is a guide, not a decision. Your installer applies and Ofgem decides.
Amounts come from the GOV.UK grant values notice and the Ofgem property owner page. This is a guide, not a decision. Your installer applies and Ofgem decides.
The amount
The values notice has a row for an air-to-water heat pump replacing electric heating that is not a heat pump, including in an off-gas property. The value is £7,500. The ground source row is the same. Air-to-air is £2,500.
Being off the gas grid is not enough for £9,000. The heating being replaced has to be oil or LPG as well.
If you already have a heat pump
The electric rows exclude a heat pump that is already there. Replacing one heat pump with another is not described as the electric-heating grant. Ask the installer to show which category they intend to use, and expect a refusal if the home already has a funded system.
Solar panels do not, by themselves, create or cancel this grant. We have not published a combined solar-and-heat-pump page.
Cost
The same air-to-water range applies: about £10,000 to £16,000 before the grant and about £2,500 to £8,500 after £7,500. Homes that already have radiators and a cylinder may sit at the lower end. Homes that need both may not. The quote is the only figure that counts.
We are not publishing a running-cost comparison against night storage heaters until the tariffs are sourced.
Sources
- Ofgem: Boiler Upgrade Scheme for property owners
- Ofgem: Boiler Upgrade Scheme for installers
- Ofgem: Boiler Upgrade Scheme property owner guidance (April 2026)
- GOV.UK: Notice of approved grant categories and values (updated 29 September 2026)
- GOV.UK: Apply for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme — what you can get
- GOV.UK: Apply for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme
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UK Heat Pump & Funding Specialist
MCIBSE and MCS certified retrofit specialist. Director of Thomson and Sons Low Carbon Consulting Firm Ltd, specialising in heat pump retrofits since 2005.