{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "last_updated": "2026-08-02",
  "source": "https://heatpumpgranthub.com/uk/already-had-eco-or-a-grant-can-i-get-bus/",
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "attribution": "HeatPumpGrantHub (heatpumpgranthub.com)"
  },
  "disclaimer": "Informational, not legal advice. Every row is a quotation from a published document, not our interpretation of it. Verify against the current version before relying on any value.",
  "coverage": {
    "geography": "England and Wales",
    "note": "The Boiler Upgrade Scheme is an England and Wales scheme. Scotland and Northern Ireland run separate arrangements and are out of scope here."
  },
  "field_notes": {
    "bus_compatible": "true, false, or null. null means the document does not answer the question for that pairing - it is a record of silence, not an unknown we could look up. Five of the eight rows are null.",
    "scope_counted": "What the statement counts: measure, device, installation, property or address. This is the field that carries the finding. Statements that appear to say the same thing count different objects.",
    "qualifier": "Any hedge in the published wording, verbatim. Only one row has one.",
    "page_number": "Given where the source document has numbered pages, so a citation can be checked in reasonable time.",
    "document_url": "The exact file read. Ofgem PDF filenames carry a timestamp and will change when a new version is published, so this records which file the quote came from rather than where the current one lives."
  },
  "statement_count": 8,
  "unresolved_count": 5,
  "statements": [
    {
      "scheme_pair": "BUS × previous BUS grant",
      "bus_compatible": false,
      "scope_counted": "address",
      "qualifier": null,
      "source_document": "Ofgem, Boiler Upgrade Scheme: Guidance for Installers",
      "guidance_version": "V5.1",
      "applies_to_applications_from": "2026-04-28",
      "paragraph": "3.36",
      "page_number": null,
      "total_pages": 99,
      "document_url": "https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2026-07/boiler_upgrade_scheme_guidance_for_installers_v5.1_20260630135616-20260701135531.pdf",
      "verbatim_quote": "A property will not be eligible for BUS funding if: a previous BUS grant has already been received for installing a heat pump or biomass boiler at the same address",
      "note": "The only one of the eight statements that resolves without qualification.",
      "date_verified": "2026-08-02"
    },
    {
      "scheme_pair": "BUS × ECO",
      "bus_compatible": null,
      "scope_counted": "device",
      "qualifier": null,
      "source_document": "Ofgem, Boiler Upgrade Scheme: Guidance for Installers",
      "guidance_version": "V5.1",
      "applies_to_applications_from": "2026-04-28",
      "paragraph": "3.36",
      "page_number": null,
      "total_pages": 99,
      "document_url": "https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2026-07/boiler_upgrade_scheme_guidance_for_installers_v5.1_20260630135616-20260701135531.pdf",
      "verbatim_quote": "the heat pump or biomass boiler being installed under BUS has also been promoted as a measure under the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme",
      "note": "Carries no footnote. Scope is the appliance being installed under BUS, not the property. Does not address ECO funding for a different measure.",
      "date_verified": "2026-08-02"
    },
    {
      "scheme_pair": "BUS × any other public funds",
      "bus_compatible": null,
      "scope_counted": "device",
      "qualifier": null,
      "source_document": "Ofgem, Boiler Upgrade Scheme: Guidance for Installers",
      "guidance_version": "V5.1",
      "applies_to_applications_from": "2026-04-28",
      "paragraph": "3.36",
      "page_number": null,
      "total_pages": 99,
      "document_url": "https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2026-07/boiler_upgrade_scheme_guidance_for_installers_v5.1_20260630135616-20260701135531.pdf",
      "verbatim_quote": "the heat pump or biomass boiler being installed under BUS has received any other grant from public funds towards purchase or installation costs",
      "note": "Carries footnote 37, which reads 'In limited circumstances, if a previously redeemed BUS voucher has been fully repaid to Ofgem, a subsequent...' - an exception note, not a citation to the BUS regulations. Recorded as published; we do not resolve which bullet it qualifies.",
      "date_verified": "2026-08-02"
    },
    {
      "scheme_pair": "BUS × public funding for a low-carbon heating system",
      "bus_compatible": null,
      "scope_counted": "property",
      "qualifier": "usually",
      "source_document": "Ofgem, Boiler Upgrade Scheme: Guidance for Property Owners",
      "guidance_version": "V5.1",
      "applies_to_applications_from": "2026-04-28",
      "paragraph": "3.14",
      "page_number": null,
      "total_pages": 45,
      "document_url": "https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2026-07/boiler_upgrade_scheme_guidance_for_property_owners_v5.1_20260630134104-20260701140218.pdf",
      "verbatim_quote": "A property will usually not be eligible if public funding has already been received to install a low-carbon heating system at the same address",
      "note": "The only statement containing a qualifier. Also the only one whose subject is 'a low-carbon heating system' rather than a heat pump or biomass boiler, which is a wider category.",
      "date_verified": "2026-08-02"
    },
    {
      "scheme_pair": "BUS × any other public funding",
      "bus_compatible": null,
      "scope_counted": "installation",
      "qualifier": null,
      "source_document": "Ofgem, Boiler Upgrade Scheme: Guidance for Property Owners",
      "guidance_version": "V5.1",
      "applies_to_applications_from": "2026-04-28",
      "paragraph": "4.38",
      "page_number": null,
      "total_pages": 45,
      "document_url": "https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2026-07/boiler_upgrade_scheme_guidance_for_property_owners_v5.1_20260630134104-20260701140218.pdf",
      "verbatim_quote": "When giving consent, you will be asked to confirm: ... that no other public funding has been used for this installation",
      "note": "This is the declaration the property owner personally confirms to Ofgem after the installer applies. It is the shortest statement of the eight and carries no qualifier.",
      "date_verified": "2026-08-02"
    },
    {
      "scheme_pair": "BUS × government or ECO funding for the heat pump or biomass boiler",
      "bus_compatible": null,
      "scope_counted": "property",
      "qualifier": null,
      "source_document": "Ofgem website, Boiler Upgrade Scheme - Property owners",
      "guidance_version": null,
      "applies_to_applications_from": null,
      "paragraph": "Eligibility for a grant - Property eligibility",
      "page_number": null,
      "total_pages": null,
      "document_url": "https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-and-social-schemes/boiler-upgrade-scheme-bus/boiler-upgrade-scheme-bus-property-owners",
      "verbatim_quote": "Grants are not available for: properties that have already received funding from government or an Energy Company Obligation for the purchase or installation of the heat pump or biomass boiler",
      "note": "Consumer-facing summary. Scope is the property; subject is the appliance.",
      "date_verified": "2026-08-02"
    },
    {
      "scheme_pair": "Warm Homes: Local Grant × BUS, same measure",
      "bus_compatible": false,
      "scope_counted": "measure",
      "qualifier": null,
      "source_document": "DESNZ, Warm Homes: Local Grant - Policy Guidance for Local Authorities",
      "guidance_version": "Updated June 2026 (cover); July 2026 (GOV.UK attachment title and file name) - recorded as found, not resolved",
      "applies_to_applications_from": null,
      "paragraph": "8.1 Interaction with other schemes",
      "page_number": 49,
      "total_pages": 59,
      "document_url": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a4629fa732d8e7ce5f53b13/warm-homes-local-grant-policy-guidance-july-2026.pdf",
      "verbatim_quote": "Funding received from the Warm Homes: Local Grant must not be blended simultaneously to install the same individual measure with other government energy performance schemes such as the Energy Company Obligation (ECO), the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS), the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund schemes (SHDF), or the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund (WH:SHF).",
      "note": "Binds local authorities in how Warm Homes funding may be spent. It does not state what Ofgem will accept on a BUS application; the six Ofgem rows above are what govern that.",
      "date_verified": "2026-08-02"
    },
    {
      "scheme_pair": "Warm Homes: Local Grant × BUS, different measure",
      "bus_compatible": true,
      "scope_counted": "measure",
      "qualifier": null,
      "source_document": "DESNZ, Warm Homes: Local Grant - Policy Guidance for Local Authorities",
      "guidance_version": "Updated June 2026 (cover); July 2026 (GOV.UK attachment title and file name) - recorded as found, not resolved",
      "applies_to_applications_from": null,
      "paragraph": "8.1 Interaction with other schemes",
      "page_number": 49,
      "total_pages": 59,
      "document_url": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a4629fa732d8e7ce5f53b13/warm-homes-local-grant-policy-guidance-july-2026.pdf",
      "verbatim_quote": "It is possible for installations to be undertaken at the same property, where the measure installed is not the same or where a measure installed under a previous scheme is topped-up by the Warm Homes: Local Grant. For example, a household may receive funding under Warm Homes: Local Grant to install a heat pump, alongside funding to install solid wall insulation under ECO.",
      "note": "Same caveat as the row above: it governs Warm Homes money, not Ofgem's decision.",
      "date_verified": "2026-08-02"
    }
  ]
}