You are correct it is a nonrefundable credit. However, if you paid in taxes either through estimated payments or withholdings from your wages, the credit would reduce your tax liability which would result in you getting a refund of money you paid in.
A non refundable credit is just a credit that will not give you cash back that you did not pay in.
One other potential thing that could be happening, is if you have the child tax credit that is also non refundable, it could be being reduced, so the energy credit is used and then you could be getting the refundable portion of the additional child tax credit. This would result in getting more money back than you paid in.
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