Fifty state energy offices read on one day. 13 of them are taking applications.
Heat Pump Rebates by State
Where every state actually stands, not what it has announced. The 155 dollar figures the offices print, the condition attached to each one, who has an income rule, who requires an approved contractor, and the page every line was read from.
13
States taking applications today
26% of the fifty
31
That have announced and not opened
the commonest position in the country
155
Dollar figures printed nationally
21 states print none at all
31
Offices pointing you elsewhere meanwhile
usually to a utility or a weatherization agency
The finding
The money exists almost everywhere. The application does not.
Forty eight states have a home energy rebate programme of some kind on paper. 13 of them will let a homeowner apply for one today. The other 37 are somewhere between a press release and a waiting list, and the commonest single position in the country, at 31 states, is a programme that has been announced and never opened.
This is not a distinction a state energy office draws clearly on its own website. An announcement page and a live application look almost identical: the same programme name, the same dollar figures, the same photograph of a technician, and the word that separates them buried in the fourth paragraph or in a dated note near the footer. A homeowner reading their own state’s page alone has no way of telling which of the two they are looking at, because there is nothing on the page to compare it against. The bar below is that comparison.
Open: 13
Waiting list: 1
Paused: 2
Closed: 1
Announced: 31
Nothing published: 2
13
Open
26% of the 50
Accepting applications
1
Waiting list
2% of the 50
Taking names, not applications
2
Paused
4% of the 50
Open once, not taking applications now
1
Closed
2% of the 50
Ran and stopped
31
Announced
62% of the 50
Announced, no application yet
2
Nothing published
4% of the 50
No state programme published
Where you can apply today
The 13 states with a door open
Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. They have little in common: the list runs from Maine to New Mexico and includes three of the warmest states in the country, which is a useful corrective to the assumption that this money follows the cold. What separates an open state from a closed one is almost entirely administrative, a matter of how quickly the office finished designing its programme and how much federal money it had left when it did.
The figure on each card is that state’s largest heat pump line, and the sentence under it is the condition the office attached to it. The condition is the half that decides whether the figure applies, and it is quoted rather than summarised on every state page.
Ordered by how close the money is to being spendable rather than alphabetically, so the states worth opening first are at the top. The programme column carries the name the office itself uses, which is the thing to search for when a link goes stale, and 15 states publish a direct application link that is carried through to their own page here.
Every state, ordered by whether a homeowner can apply today. The programme column is the name the office itself uses, which is what to search for when a link goes stale.
Most state energy offices with a shut programme are aware that a homeowner arriving on their page this winter cannot wait for it, and they publish a route: your own utility, a weatherization agency, a bill assistance office, or in a few cases a federal tax credit that is claimed rather than applied for. 31 of the fifty do this. It is the single most useful sentence on most of those pages and it is almost never near the top of them.
A utility programme is a different thing from a state one, with its own rules, its own contractor list and its own deadline, and in a handful of states it is worth more. Each row below carries the office’s own wording and the page it points at.
The states whose energy office sends a homeowner somewhere else while its own programme is not taking applications, and where it sends them.
With the single family programme closed, the office points readers at its own navigator of other equipment incentives and utility bill assistance. Source
The state answers the reader who cannot wait by sending them to the ratepayer funded programme Hawaii Energy on every island but Kaua'i, to the KIUC appliance programmes on Kaua'i, and to the Green Infrastructure Authority's on bill financing for a heat pump water heater. Source
Under a heading marked available now, the state tells readers to ask their own gas or electric utility, and points low income households to the state weatherization and energy assistance programmes. Source
Beside the state programme, the energy office points readers to their own utility's efficiency programmes and lists the six large Indiana utilities. Source
The state says nothing is available yet and tells readers to look at federal tax credits, weatherization assistance and their own utility instead. Source
While the federal rebates wait on DOE approval, MEA points a household at EmPOWER Maryland, the efficiency programmes the five largest electric utilities run for their own customers, with a separate low income programme through the state housing agency. Source
The state's own page of energy programmes for individuals sends residents to Mass Save, run by the gas and electric utilities, for rebates available today. Source
EGLE tells households that do not qualify to go to their utility or the federal tax credits instead, and says state rebates can often be combined with utility rebates. Source
On the same page the state tells anyone who needs help now to look to their utility, naming NorthWestern Energy, Montana-Dakota Utilities and the electric cooperatives, alongside the weatherization programme run by the state health department. Source
New Jersey runs no heat pump rebate of its own. The Clean Energy Program's own page sends a homeowner to the seven investor owned electric and gas utilities, which take applications on a rolling basis and run the HVAC rebate, Whole Home Energy Solutions and building decarbonisation offers. Source
The state says utility rebates can be taken on top of the state rebate, and points readers over 80 percent AMI at their utility and at state tax credits instead. Source
A New York household above the EmPower+ income bands is sent to NYS Clean Heat, the statewide heat pump rebate delivered by the seven sponsoring utilities, where the rebate is looked up by home address and claimed through a participating contractor. Source
The separate federal rebate programmes, when they open, will be run by Energy Trust of Oregon and Earth Advantage rather than by the state, split by which utility serves the address. Source
The state says a resident may use weatherization or a local utility rebate programme alongside the rebates, but it names no utility page to go to while waiting. Source
South Dakota runs no home energy rebate of its own and its utilities commission sends homeowners to their own utility and to the federal Energy Star rebate finder. Source
The office's own energy efficiency page sends homeowners to their electric and gas utilities for rebates, naming Rocky Mountain Power's Wattsmart programme and Dominion Energy's ThermWise programme, and tells everyone else to ask their local provider. Source
The statewide discount is funded by the homeowner's electric utility, and several utilities add their own offer on top which is claimed from the utility. Source
The state does not take applications itself. It hands money to forty local bodies, many of them public utility districts, counties, cities and tribes, and sends the reader to whichever one covers their address. Source
Beside the rebates, the same programme runs its own long standing Focus on Energy rebates and points low income households to weatherization, and says the two can be combined. Source
The energy authority's list of everything it offers Wyoming residents contains exactly one entry, and it sends the reader to a different state agency for weatherization and winter heating bill help rather than to any rebate. Source
Weatherization work under a floor, which for most of the country is the only home energy money with a door open on it. Thirty one state energy offices point a homeowner at a utility programme or a weatherization agency while their own rebate is still being designed, and the referral is usually buried well below the announcement. The work in this frame is what that referral leads to. “DOE weatherization services (677)”, U.S. Department of Energy, Public Domain
What it is worth
155 printed figures, and 21 states printing none
The largest figure any state prints is $20,000, in Florida. At the other end, several offices publish a few hundred dollars for a single appliance and nothing else. The spread is not about climate and not really about generosity: it tracks how a state chose to divide a federal allocation that arrived in roughly proportional amounts, between a small number of large whole home awards and a large number of small per appliance ones.
The 21 states printing no figure at all are not an omission in the research. An office that has announced a programme and published no amount has told a reader something real: the design is not finished, and a figure quoted from anywhere else for that state is somebody’s estimate rather than the state’s number.
Every dollar figure a state energy office prints, largest first. The condition column is the part that decides whether the figure in the row beside it applies to a particular house, and it is quoted from the office rather than summarised.
HEAR household cap covering heat pumps and other electric measures, currently closed to new applications; Georgia publishes no per measure heat pump figure
this is the planned Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates band across every eligible measure, not a heat pump specific figure, and the page prints no separate heat pump amount
All electrical services are only eligible with the installation of a qualified appliance
Sixty of the 155 figures are shown, largest first. The rest are on their own state pages beside the sentence each was read from.
What the money buys
25 states price air source heat pump
A home energy rebate is rarely one rebate. Most states publish a list of measures with a separate figure against each, and the shape of that list says what the office thinks the programme is for. The states that lead with a whole home cap are funding projects; the ones that lead with an appliance figure are funding purchases, and the two produce very different paperwork.
Ground source heat pumps are the outlier at the bottom of the table. Four states price them at all, against twenty five for an air source pump, and the reason is physical rather than political: a ground loop needs land, a pond or a drilling rig, and a rebate written for a suburban lot has nowhere to put any of the three.
The twelve things a state energy office will pay for, ordered by how many states print a figure for each. A state can print more than one figure against a measure, which is why the two counts differ.
Measure
States
Figures
Largest
Smallest
Air source heat pump
25
37
a rebate cap of $14,000 (Iowa)
$375-$475 instant discount (Vermont)
Whole home project cap
24
33
$20,000 (Florida)
$2,000 (Georgia)
Heat pump water heater
19
19
$5,000 (New York)
Up to $1,000 off (Vermont)
Electrical panel
16
16
$5,000 (New York)
Up to $4,000 (Wisconsin)
Insulation
15
15
$8,000 (Maine)
Up to $1,600 (Wisconsin)
Electrical wiring
13
13
$2,500 max rebate amount (Arizona)
Up to $2,500 (Wisconsin)
Heat pump clothes dryer
8
8
Up to $840 (Arizona)
Up to $840 (Wisconsin)
Induction range or cooktop
7
7
Up to $840 (Arizona)
Up to $840 (Virginia)
Ground source heat pump
4
4
60% of Heat Pump system and install cost. These incentives are capped at $11,500. (Rhode Island)
$3,000 (Maine)
Air sealing
2
2
Up to $1,600 (New Mexico)
$1,600 (New York)
Weatherization
1
1
No flat figure
No flat figure
A twelve ton pond loop going down, the water side of a ground source system. Four states out of fifty print a ground source figure at all, against twenty five for an air source pump, and the gap is not about the technology. A ground loop needs land, or a pond, or a drilling rig, and a rebate written for a suburban lot has nowhere to put any of the three. “Pond Loop Being Sunk”, Mark Johnson, Public Domain
Who the money is for
34 states publish an income rule, and 28 tier the award by it
Income is the commonest condition in the country and the one most often misread, because the two versions of it behave completely differently. A threshold decides whether there is an award. A tier decides how large it is, and in 28 states the same measure is worth two or three times as much to a household under the area median as it is to one above it. A headline figure quoted without saying which tier it belongs to is the single commonest error on pages about this money.
Below is each office in its own words. An income rule turns on household size, tax filing status and who owns the building, so the office's own sentence is the one that settles it.
Any household that is above the 150% area median income limits are not eligible for this program.
Per U.S. DOE guidelines, low-income households (those below 80% area median income) and moderate-income households (those between 80 and 150% area median income) are eligible.
The HEEHRA rebates are based on verified, annual household income. California residents with single family household incomes between 80 percent and 150 percent area median income (AMI) are eligible for up to a $4,000 rebate. Californians with single family household incomes that are less than 80 percent AMI are eligible for up to an $8,000 rebate.
Below 80% AMI 100% of qualified project cost, up to the HEAR maximum rebate amounts 80% - 150% AMI 50% of qualified project cost, up to the HEAR maximum rebate amounts
For the Home Efficiency Rebates (HER), rebates are available to individuals conducting energy efficiency upgrades of single-family homes and multifamily buildings. These rebates are available to households of any income. For households with a total annual income below 80 percent of the area median income (AMI), rebates can cover a higher percentage of the total project costs. The Home Electrification and Appliance (HEAR) program is only available to households with an annual income that is less than 150 percent of the area median income (AMI) of their county.
The Home Appliance Rebate (HEAR) provides cost savings to low- and moderate-income households earning less than 150% of the Area Median Income (AMI) with eligible upgrades.
Iowa expects to receive approximately $60 million in funding to provide prescriptive rebates on a percentage of the cost for an efficiency project based on household income, with a rebate cap of $14,000.
Eligible rebate amounts are dependent on the Program path selected, household income and existing conditions of the home. Rebate caps are being finalized with the Department of Energy. The caps will be published closer to the program launch.
Low-Income – Homeowner or homeowner’s household member participates in MaineCare, HEAP, SNAP, or TANF and income eligibility verified here. Moderate-Income – Homeowner’s Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) is up to $70,000 for individual tax filers, or $100,000 for joint filers and income eligibility verified here. Any Income – Homeowner of any income
Rebate Qualification is based on Area Median Income (AMI). The Home Electrification and Appliance Rebate Program rebates are tiered based on your gross household income with higher incentives available below 80% AMI and slightly reduced incentives available between 80-150% AMI; eligibility is capped at 150% AMI.
Rebates are only available to households who earn up to 150% of the area median income, subject to the rebate amounts listed above. For households whose earnings are between 80% and 150% of the area median income, the maximum rebate amount is 50% of the project costs subject to the rebate amounts listed above.
Fifteen states print a dollar figure for insulation, which puts it fifth behind the air source pump, the whole home cap, the water heater and the electrical panel. It is also the measure most likely to be required before the rest: several offices will pay for a pump only after the envelope has been dealt with, on the reasoning that a pump sized to a leaking house is a pump sized wrong. Where an office has written that rule down, the state page quotes it. “Installing installation in an attic (9337)”, The EnergySmart Academy, CC0
Who may do the work
23 states require an approved contractor
This is the condition that ends the most applications, and it is almost always discovered after the equipment is bought. Where a state runs an approved contractor list, work done by anybody not on it is generally not eligible, and that includes work a homeowner does themselves and work done by a licensed installer who simply never registered with the programme. Several states publish the list on a different page from the rebate itself.
The Efficiency Arizona program offers two options for approved applicants: using a qualified contractor or going through a qualified rebate retailer. The contractor option includes rebates for heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, heat pump dryers, electric cooking appliances, insulation, air sealing, and electrical wiring or panel upgrades.
Rebates are only available through contractors who are enrolled in TECH and trained in the HEEHRA rebates. Qualified contractors can be found through The Switch Is On's Contractor Finder.
The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) will issue rebates through registered contractors. These registered contractors will pass the rebate savings on as discounts to households and multifamily building owners and operators.
Yes. Rebate applicants for point-of-sale rebates must use a certified contractor to install and verify proper completion of home upgrades. A certified rebate program contractor list will be made available.
Eligible rebate work must be performed by an approved MiHER Registered Contractor. Approved Contractors and their contact information can be found in the Find a Contractor tool .
IMPORTANT! Rebates are only available through program-approved contractors. If your contractor is not in this directory or if you are unsure, please call our Contact Center at 888-290-9337 before moving forward.
These are two different programmes and conflating them is the commonest error on pages about this subject. A state rebate is money off the job, applied for through a state energy office under its own rules, with its own contractor and income conditions. The federal credit is money off a tax bill, claimed when filing, with no application and no approval step. The timing is different, the paperwork is different, and the conditions attached to one are not the conditions attached to the other.
Whether both can be claimed on a single job is a tax question. Only 10 state offices address it on their own pages, and those sentences are reproduced below exactly as written rather than summarised, because a summary of a sentence about tax is a different statement than the sentence.
Please note that the federal 25C tax credit expires at the end of the year and is only available for heat pumps placed into service by December 31, 2025. This Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit tax credit could provide additional financial benefits to homeowners.
Some residential tax credits are available for homeowners to obtain residential efficiency products and improvements. For example, qualifying home improvements made after December 31, 2021, may be eligible for these federal tax credits, including purchases of ENERGY STAR certified products and improvements to the building shell.
HOMES and HEAR may not be combined with each other for the same single upgrade. Additionally, neither program may be combined with other federal grants or rebates for the same single upgrade.
Both the HER and HEAR program allow the "stacking" or combining of rebates and other discounts on the same measures. So, depending on the rules regarding your utility rebates, you may be eligible for utility rebates in addition to these Home Rebates.
The incentive shall not exceed the total cost of the heat pump minus incentives from other sources included (manufacturer, utility, or state incentives), and cannot be stacked with funding from other federally funded programs such as HOMES and HEAR.
Note: One street address may not receive a rebate from both IRA Home Efficiency Rebates (HOMES) and HEAR for the same upgrade type. Projects receiving rebates from either of these programs may also be eligible to receive Focus on Energy rebates.
A heat pump is an air conditioner that can run backwards, and the outdoor half of one sits in the same place and looks much the same, which is why a surprising number of homeowners cannot tell from the yard which one they already own. It matters to the paperwork rather than to the comfort: an office paying for a swap usually wants to know what the house burns today, and the answer changes which figure in its table applies.
The outdoor half of a heat pump is the same box in the same place as the outdoor half of an air conditioner, which is why so many homeowners cannot tell from the yard which one they already own. It matters to the paperwork: an office that pays for a swap usually wants to know what the house burns today, and Arizona has written that from September 2026 it will pay only where the equipment being replaced was already electric. “Outdoor air conditioner unit installed in residential garden space”, Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0
Home energy rebate questions
13 of 50: Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin. Every other state either has not opened its programme, has paused it, or has finished it. That is the single most useful fact about this money, and no one state's own website can tell you it.
Because 31 states have announced a programme and not opened one. An announcement page and an open application look almost identical on a state energy office's website, and the word that separates them is usually buried in a paragraph rather than printed at the top. Every state page here leads with which of the two it is.
155 separate figures are printed across the country, the largest of them $20,000 in Florida. 21 states have published no figure at all for any measure, which usually means the programme design is not finished rather than that the money will be small.
In most places that publish a rule, yes. 34 states publish an income rule and 28 of those tier the award by it, meaning income sets how much is paid or whether anything is. Each state page reproduces its office's rule in the office's own words, because household size, tax filing and who owns the building all feed into it and no page can see any of them.
23 states require the work to go through a contractor the programme has approved, and several publish the list of approved contractors separately from the rebate page itself. Those lists are linked on each state page.
No. A state rebate is money off the job and the federal credit is money off a tax bill, with different rules and different paperwork, and conflating them is the most common error on pages about this. Only 10 state offices address whether the two can be combined, and where one does its exact sentence is quoted rather than summarised.
31 state offices point a homeowner somewhere else meanwhile, usually to their own utility, to weatherization assistance, or to bill help. Those are different programmes with their own rules, and each state page carries its office's own wording and link for them.
Every status and figure was read from the state office's own page on September 23, 2026, and each one is linked beside the sentence it came from. This is a fast moving area: a programme can open, fill its funding and close inside a season, and at least one state has done exactly that more than once.
Fifty state energy offices read September 23, 2026, each figure and status linked to the page it came from. This moves quickly: a programme can open, reserve its funding and stop taking applications inside a single season, and at least one state has done exactly that more than once. The office page linked beside each line is what governs on the day.
