Voucher first, purchase second
The Canary government’s release of 1 September 2026 gives a single sentence a subheading of its own: “Los bonos podrán solicitarse a partir del 15 de septiembre y deberán obtenerse antes de realizar la compra” — the vouchers must be in hand before the purchase is made. The body of the text puts it more briefly: “Las personas interesadas deberán solicitar el bono antes de adquirir el electrodoméstico.”
That fixes the order: register, apply for the voucher, receive it — and only then walk into a participating shop. The discount is deducted at the till; a procedure for reimbursing a purchase already made against a receipt is described nowhere in the release.
How much there is — and what the amount depends on
Two tiers: up to €250 per appliance in general, up to €450 in a vulnerable situation, with €70 as the bottom of the range. The amount depends, per the release, on the appliance and its energy efficiency; a table of fixed amounts by appliance type exists neither there nor on the platform. Vulnerability has to be proven at registration: a certificado de vulnerabilidad, a bill showing the bono social eléctrico, or an Ingreso Mínimo Vital award, the last two no more than three months old.
Eligible are the five appliance types listed above, up to five appliances per person. The release names no minimum energy class as a formal condition. The platform’s catalogue, however, lists the admitted models one by one and offers only A, B and C in its efficiency filter. In practice, then, the catalogue decides: if the model you want is not in it, there is no voucher for it.
What the official gazette says — and what it does not
cita.news searched the Boletín Oficial de Canarias and the national subsidy database for the bases reguladoras — the norm that would set binding conditions for buyers. It does not exist. What does exist is in the BOC of 26 December 2025: a direct grant on grounds of public interest of €1,000,000 each to the employers’ federations Femete and Femepa.
That is not sloppiness but the way the programme is built: the regional government hands the money straight to two federations, which run the voucher scheme under the rules on their own platform. The figures given here therefore come from the release and the platform, not from a citable legal norm — and anyone wanting to challenge something goes to Femete and Femepa, not the gazette.
The old appliance — and your island’s budget
The old appliance has to go, by the regulated route: the release describes the end of the process as delivery of the new appliance and collection of the old one, which enters the authorised waste circuit for electrical and electronic equipment. Which document the buyer should keep as proof is not stated there, and was not to be found elsewhere — a question for the shop, before the delivery van pulls away.
The money is also not a single pot: a resident of Gran Canaria is competing for €600,000, one on El Hierro for €8,000. The government does not use the phrase “first come, first served”. It does write that the campaign runs to 15 December, always subject to the availability of funds, and describes what happens to a lapsed voucher: after 15 days without a purchase it lapses, and the reserved amount may be made available again to others. Reserved, lapsed, back into the pot.
What remains open for foreign residents
The release addresses “the citizenry of all the islands” but defines no residency condition: neither the padrón nor nationality nor the NIE appears in it. The registration form likewise does not ask for nationality, and requests no padrón certificate at that stage.
Whether an NIE is accepted in the “NIF” field, and whether padrón registration is required when the voucher is checked, could not be established: no source examined says anything about it. For foreign residents that is the decisive question — to be asked before the purchase, not after. Femete covers Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro (planrenove@femete.es, 822 11 08 62), Femepa covers Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura (femepa@planrenovecanarias.es, 928 296 161). This text is information, not advice.