Heat pump grant for tenants
If you rent, ask your landlord. Paying the bills does not let you claim the grant.
Key takeaways
- The checker’s tenant result is “ask your landlord”.
- The landlord must tell you before the work.
- Do not pay a deposit for a grant application in your name.
The rule
The scheme is for the property owner. Ofgem asks landlords to tell any tenant about the installation. That sentence only makes sense if the tenant is not the applicant. The checker stops at “ask your landlord” and does not show a grant amount as if you could claim it.
If you own a leasehold flat, you are not a tenant in this sense. Use the flats page. If you are a lodger or an assured tenant, you are a tenant.
What to ask
Ask who will own the heat pump, whether the rent or the service charge changes, and who maintains it. Those are tenancy questions, not grant questions. We cannot answer them from the scheme rules.
A cold home is not, by itself, a Boiler Upgrade Scheme application. In Wales, some low-income households look at Nest as well. Nest is for the household’s circumstances and it is a different scheme.
If the home is in Scotland
Do not use this grant. Point the landlord to Home Energy Scotland. We do not take tenant details to sell to an installer in Scotland or anywhere else while the quote form is off.
Nothing you type into the checker is sent to a landlord or an installer.
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
Reviewed by
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.