Every federal home energy credit ended. Not every IRS page says so.

If you are trying to find out whether a federal tax credit can still help pay for a heat pump, a solar array or a charger on your garage wall, the answer for anything you install from here on is no. Every one of them has ended, the last of them on June 30, 2026.

Ended is not the same as unclaimable, and this month the difference is worth money. Each of these credits has a date the property had to be installed or acquired by, and you claim it on the return for the year that happened. Work finished before the deadline still belongs on a return, and nobody has filed a 2026 return yet.

So the question is not only what ended and when. It is also why so many people are still being told these credits are live, and part of that answer is that the pages you would visit to check are not all telling you either.

Five credits, three end dates

Two of those rows carry a footnote the IRS supplies itself. The 25C page words its own deadline two ways, a day apart. And the fuel cell exception in the 25D row is a real cap rather than a technicality: fuel cell property is limited to $500 for each half kilowatt of capacity, and where more than one person lives in the home the combined credit for all residents cannot exceed $1,667 for each half kilowatt. Both are covered below.

The law that did this is Public Law 119-21, 139 Stat. 72, dated July 4, 2025. The two vehicle pages carry a link, in a list headed Related, to IRS guidance described as addressing the accelerated termination of several energy provisions. The link beside it names the full list of sections that changed: 25C, 25D, 25E, 30C, 30D, 45L, 45W and 179D. The last three cover home builders, commercial vehicles and commercial buildings, so they do not appear on a homeowner’s return and are not covered here.

Where that link is missing matters more. The charger page carries it too, near the bottom under Related. Neither of the two home energy pages, the ones a homeowner searching for heat pump or solar help will actually land on, links to that guidance at all.

Two pages warn you. Three do not.

This is the part that matters most, and it is the reason a reader can do everything right and still come away misinformed.

Both vehicle pages open, before anything else, with an update stating the credit is not available for vehicles acquired after September 30, 2025. Both then explain a distinction that decides whether some people can still file: acquisition and placing in service are different events. A vehicle placed in service after that date can still qualify if it was acquired on or before it, which the IRS says you can demonstrate with a binding written contract and a payment made by that date. So a 2026 filing referencing a 2025 acquisition is not automatically an error.

The other three pages have no such banner. A reader arriving from a search result sees a page describing eligibility rules, dollar caps and how to file, written throughout in the present tense.

The dates make this harder to explain away as a backlog. The two pages that carry the notice were reviewed on July 13, 2026. The Residential Clean Energy page was reviewed on July 4, 2026, and does not carry one.

The solar page argues with itself

The Residential Clean Energy page states plainly that the credit is not available for any property placed in service after December 31, 2025.

Further down the same page, in the section explaining how the credit works, it tells the reader they can claim it every year that they install eligible property “until the credit begins to phase out in 2033”.

Both sentences are on the page. The second is a leftover from the schedule that applied before the 2025 law, and read on its own it tells a homeowner they have another seven years. Which sentence a reader believes depends on how far down they scroll.

The Energy Efficient Home Improvement page has a smaller version of the same problem. One sentence says the credit can be claimed for improvements made through December 31, 2025. Another says it is allowed for property placed in service before December 31, 2025. Those differ by a day, and for anyone whose installation finished on the last day of the year, that day is the whole question.

On the more common version of that question, both home pages are clear and they agree with each other. Each says you must claim the credit for the tax year when the property is installed, not merely purchased. The charger page puts the same rule differently, that the credit allowed is based on the placed-in-service date. So a contract signed and paid in 2025 for work that was finished in 2026 does not qualify. Vehicles are the exception, and the vehicle pages say so outright.

The charger credit is the live trap

Section 30C is the one most likely to catch someone this month, because it died most recently and its page shows no sign of it.

The page describes a window running from January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026, with a credit of 30% of cost up to $1,000 per item at a main home. For businesses and organizations the same window carried 6% up to $100,000 per item, rising to 30% with the same per-item limit where prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements were met.

That window has closed. The page was last reviewed on May 26, 2026, which is before its own expiry date, and it carries no notice of that deadline anywhere. It still opens by telling readers they may be eligible. It still walks them through looking up their census tract. It still says the IRS will periodically publish updated lists of qualified tracts and invites them to check back later to see if they qualify.

The top-level page the IRS uses to introduce all of these credits is no better. Reviewed on June 27, 2026, it still opens by saying the agency is working on implementing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, and it names no end date for anything.

What actually remains

For work you have not started, nothing federal. For work already finished, check the deadline in the first table against the date your equipment actually went in, before you decide you have missed it. A charger placed in service before June 30, 2026 belongs on a return that is not due yet.

Beyond that, what is left runs through three other channels: your state’s own programs, your utility’s rebates, and the federally funded rebates that each state administers on its own timetable.

That last channel is where the money now is, and the Energy Department’s page for it describes two rebates rather than one. It puts HOMES, which covers whole-home upgrades, at up to $8,000 based on modeled energy savings levels with a minimum savings of 20%. The other rebate is paid at the point of sale, either at retail outlets or through contractors, and covers insulation, air sealing, ventilation, wiring, electric heating and cooling, and efficient electric appliances, up to $14,000. The federal page calls that one HEEHR. The two state pages examined in a separate look at these rebates both call it HEAR, and they set very different income ceilings.

None of that is a tax credit. You do not claim it on a return, you apply. The Energy Department’s page will not tell you where your own state stands either. It says the rebates are available in select states, that details are coming soon, and that you should contact your state or territory energy office for status and eligibility. A state being open does not mean the measure you want is open. Where each state stands is tracked on Is it open in my state?.

If you find that one of the IRS pages described above has changed since this check, or that your state told you something that contradicts what is here, write in. A correction is the most useful thing this site can receive.

What is not confirmed here

• The OBBB guidance document itself. The list of affected sections above was read off the link text on the IRS pages that point to it. The linked FAQ was not opened, so nothing inside it is asserted here.
• Whether these pages still read this way. Every statement above about what an IRS page does or does not say was true on the verification date at the top of this article. A page can also be edited without its review date moving. That is the kind of claim that goes stale without anyone here touching the file, and it is scheduled for a re-check.
• Sections 45L, 45W and 179D. The IRS names them as modified by the same law. The top-level page cited here describes each in a line, including credits of up to $5,000 per home for builders of energy-efficient homes, but none of their own pages were read and no deadline for them is asserted here.
• Whether any state replaced any of these credits. Some states run their own solar or heat pump incentives. Whether yours did anything in response to the federal terminations was not checked.
• Which side of the 25C wording discrepancy governs. The general timing rule is answered above and both pages agree on it. What is unresolved is work completed on December 31, 2025 itself, where the page’s two sentences point opposite ways. Nothing here should be read as advice about a particular return.