As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly find energy-saving grants you might qualify for.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open GOV.UK, your council website and any relevant energy-scheme provider pages, then note the official pages that describe current energy-saving support.
   2. Gather your postcode or council area, tenure, property type and age, EPC rating if available, heating system, proposed improvement, household income band and benefits information.
   3. Paste those details into the prompt, replacing each bracketed slot with your own information and removing anything you do not know.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce the table and separate confirmed matches, possible matches and schemes that do not appear to apply.
   5. Open every official link in the result and compare the current eligibility wording, application status, evidence requirements and responsible organisation with the drafted table.
   6. Contact the named council, supplier or scheme provider with your property details and ask them to confirm eligibility before paying an installer or starting work.
   7. Save the confirmation and use the provider's official application route, supplying only the documents it requests.

   Prompt

   Find current energy-saving grants and schemes that may be available to me in the UK. Use official sources first, including GOV.UK, my local council and the scheme provider. Do not rely on search-result summaries, affiliate pages or old articles.
   
   My details:
   - Location and council: [postcode or council area]
   - Tenure: [owner, private tenant, social tenant or other]
   - Property type and age: [details]
   - Current heating system: [details]
   - Proposed improvement: [insulation, heat pump, boiler, solar panels or other]
   - EPC rating, if known: [rating]
   - Household income band: [band]
   - Benefits received, if any: [details or none]
   - Energy supplier, if relevant: [supplier]
   
   Create a table with the scheme name, what it funds, whether applications appear open as of 2026-08-13, the eligibility rules that match or do not match my details, whether my council or supplier is involved, the official application link, and what evidence I would need. Separate confirmed matches, possible matches needing a check, and schemes that do not appear to apply. Quote or summarise the relevant rule from each official source. Do not say I qualify unless the official provider confirms it. Flag anything you cannot verify, and tell me which organisation I must contact before applying. Do not estimate savings, grant amounts or approval chances.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.