What Colorado Energy Office has actually published, what it points homeowners at meanwhile, and which states are open today.
Colorado has run its programme and stopped taking applications. Colorado Home Energy Rebate Program is run by Colorado Energy Office. Nationally 13 of 50 states are taking applications and 31 have announced a programme without opening one.
launched in stages; Region 1 and Region 2 single family both now closed as of August 2026
Colorado Home Energy Rebate Program, Colorado Energy Office
Read September 23, 2026.
Each figure carries the condition Colorado Energy Office attached to it, and the condition is the half that decides whether the figure applies to a particular house. Where the office wrote a sentence beside the number, that sentence is reproduced whole and linked to the page it was read from, because a paraphrase of an eligibility rule is a different statement than the rule.
up to $16,000
Applies Home Efficiency Rebates for manufactured and mobile homes, stated as available in 2026.
Below 80% AMI 35% or greater 100% of project cost, up to $16,000Colorado Energy Office, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$8,000
Applies cold climate heat pump; HEAR single family is closed.
Cold climate heat pump for space heating and cooling $8,000Colorado Energy Office, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$3,000
Applies standard heat pump for space heating and cooling.
Heat pump for space heating and cooling $3,000Colorado Energy Office, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$1,750
Heat pump water heater $1,750Colorado Energy Office, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$840
Electric stove, cooktop, range, or oven $840Colorado Energy Office, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$4,000
Electric load service center (also known as electric panel) $4,000Colorado Energy Office, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$2,500
Electric wiring $2,500Colorado Energy Office, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$1,600
Applies insulation, air sealing and ventilation combined.
Insulation, air sealing, and ventilation $1,600Colorado Energy Office, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
Income and the contractor list are where the largest number of applications stop, and both are usually discovered late. Nationally 34 states publish an income rule and 28 of those tier the award by it, meaning income decides how much is paid rather than only whether anything is; 23 require the work to go through a contractor the programme has approved, which generally excludes work a homeowner does themselves.
Income decides the size of the award in Colorado, or whether there is one at all. Rebate share depends on household income against county area median income, and households at or above 150% AMI are excluded from both rebate programmes.
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 amountsColorado Energy Office, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
The work has to go through a contractor the programme has approved. the work must be done by a contractor registered with the programme, who submits the paperwork
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.Colorado Energy Office, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
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 than the state programme it stands in for. 31 state offices publish a route like this, and on most of those pages it sits well below the announcement that brought the reader there.
With the single family programme closed, the office points readers at its own navigator of other equipment incentives and utility bill assistance.
Find other Colorado energy equipment incentives and utility bill assistance for your household: View the Colorado Energy Savings NavigatorColorado Energy Office, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
These are two separate programmes and conflating them is the commonest error on pages about this. A Colorado rebate is money off the job, applied for through Colorado Energy Office under its own rules. The federal credit is money off a tax bill, claimed when filing, with no application and no approval step. Different timing, different paperwork, and qualifying for one says nothing about qualifying for the other.
Colorado Energy Office does not address on its own pages whether the two can be claimed on one job. Only 10 state offices do, so the silence is normal rather than a signal either way.
Colorado is in the larger group. Only 13 of the fifty states are taking applications from homeowners, and 31 have announced a programme without opening it, which is the commonest position in the country. The states that are open are Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin.
Across the country 155 separate dollar figures are printed and 21 states print none at all. The spread has little to do with climate: it tracks how each state chose to divide a federal allocation between a small number of large whole home awards and a large number of small per appliance ones.
Colorado read September 23, 2026 from Colorado Energy Office’s own pages, linked beside every figure and every rule. A programme can open, reserve its funding and stop taking applications inside a single season, so the office page linked above is what governs on the day. Every state is on the home energy rebates hub.