Guides to solar funding
The route pages explain each scheme. These guides cut across them: the dates, the EPC rating, eligibility, renting, and how to protect yourself when an offer arrives. Each one is checked against its sources and dated.
The short answer
Start with the question you have. If you don't know which routes apply to you, the checker on the home page sorts them for your situation; if you have an offer in front of you, start with spotting fake grant offers.
Facts checked at source on 2 and 3 November 2026 · Solar PV Panels Grants is an independent explainer from SEO-DONS LTD, not a scheme
Every dated change to home solar support in order, from the end of ECO4 to the last Boiler Upgrade Scheme vouchers, and what each means for a household.
EPC ratings and solar fundingHow to find your energy performance certificate, which ratings the Local Grant and Nest use, and what solar does to a rating.
Low-income routes explainedHow the means-tested schemes decide eligibility: income lines, postcodes and benefits in England, the benefit and health routes in Wales.
Renters and landlordsWhich routes apply to private tenants, social tenants and landlords, who has to agree, and who gets the benefit of the panels.
Questions before agreeing funded workThe questions to ask at each stage of a funded or financed solar job, from the first contact to the paperwork after installation.
Spotting fake grant offersHow misleading solar offers work, what the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled, and what consumer law now bans outright.
Paying for solar without a grantSavings, the loan scheme, VAT relief and export payments compared, for the households that pay for their own panels.
Checked at source, and dated
Every fact in these guides comes from a primary source: GOV.UK and its departments, Ofgem, HMRC, the Welsh and Scottish governments, nidirect, legislation.gov.uk and the Advertising Standards Authority, with the House of Commons Library used for summaries. Each page lists its sources at the foot with the date we checked them. Where a source couldn't be confirmed, we leave the point out rather than guess.
The guides don't recommend installers, lenders or products, and they don't tell anyone they qualify for a scheme. Their job is to explain the rules clearly enough that you can check them yourself, and to point to the official place to do it.
For quick answers to single questions, try the funding questions page. For words you meet in scheme documents and quotes, see funding words. And for everything we rely on in one list, see sources.
Not sure which route, if any, fits your home?
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What happens next
- Your message reaches SEO-DONS LTD, which publishes this explainer.
- We reply by email with the scheme or council page that fits, if there is one.
- Any application is between you and that scheme.