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What changed in the grant data, and when
Every correction, every amount, every price change — with the date we made it and the government page we made it from. This exists because a grant site that never shows its edits is a grant site nobody can check.
Subscribe: The feed updates whenever a figure changes. If you advise homeowners for a living, that is probably more useful than the pages themselves. changes-uk.xml (RSS)
Why publish this at all
Three reasons. It is the only honest way to run a database whose whole value is that it is current — you can see when we last touched a number and decide for yourself whether to trust it. It makes our mistakes visible, which is the price of being trusted about the rest. And it turns out the changes are often the story: the £9,000 that is really £1,500, the Czech grant that quietly became a loan.
The log
CZ Correction 2026-08-11
| Was | Direct NZÚ grant assumed available to all households |
| Now | Direct grant is NZÚ Light only (low income); standard households get a 0 % loan |
Verified against the Ministry of the Environment's own programme presentation. The 2025 rules many sites still quote no longer exist.
cz.programmes · Source
UK Correction 2026-08-11
| Was | £9,000 uplift |
| Now | £1,500 uplift, £9,000 total |
Widely reported as a £9,000 uplift. It is not: the uplift is £1,500 on top of the £7,500 base, giving £9,000 in total for eligible off-gas-grid oil and LPG homes.
uk.bus-oil-lpg-uplift.amount · Source
UK Budget 2026-08-11
| Was | not previously recorded |
| Now | £286,385,000 remaining of £400m, as at 30 June 2026 |
First observation recorded in the budget tracker. £113.6m committed in the first quarter of the scheme year — a run rate of £37.9m a month.
uk.budget.remaining · Source
DE Clarification 2026-08-11
| Was | Base grant falls 30 % → 15 % in February 2027 |
| Now | Base grant falls 30 % → 15 % in Q1 2027, with a proposed 15-point bonus for EU-origin heat pumps |
The cut is close to neutral for an EU-made heat pump and a real halving for a non-EU one. Reporting that omits the value-creation bonus overstates the loss for most buyers and understates it for some.
de.kfw458-grund.change_note · Source
NL Amount changed 2026-08-11
| Was | €1,250 base + €265/kW (2025) |
| Now | €1,025 base + €225/kW + €200 A+++ bonus (2026) |
A 6 kW A+++ unit gets about €465 less than under the 2025 rules.
nl.isde-lucht-water.formula · Source
DE Amount changed 2026-07-21
| Was | €30,000 |
| Now | €28,000 |
Eligible-cost ceiling for the first dwelling unit cut on 21 July 2026. At a 46 % rate that is €920 less grant. The Effizienzbonus and Emissionsminderungszuschlag were removed on the same date.
de.cost_ceiling.first_unit · Source
UK Amount changed 2026-07-21
| Was | no uplift |
| Now | £1,500 uplift for off-gas-grid oil and LPG, to 31 March 2027 |
New from 21 July 2026. Around 1.7 million households in England and Wales heat with oil or LPG.
uk.bus-oil-lpg-uplift · Source
UK Energy price 2026-07-01
| Was | previous cap period |
| Now | 26.11p/kWh electricity, 7.33p/kWh gas |
Ofgem cap for 1 July – 30 September 2026. Standing charges 57.19p and 29.04p a day. The electricity-to-gas ratio is 3.56, which sets the break-even SCOP at 3.20 against a 90 % boiler.
uk.electricity_per_kwh / gas_per_kwh · Source