What Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) pays, the condition attached to each figure, who qualifies, who may do the work, and the page to apply on.
Michigan is taking applications now, through Michigan Home Energy Rebates (MiHER), run by Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE). The largest heat pump figure it prints is may not exceed $14,000 per household. It is one of only 13 states out of 50 where a homeowner can apply today.
The program started in fall of 2024 with pilot homes in the Upper Peninsula.
Start the application at Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) FAQ: Home Energy Rebates, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy
Read September 23, 2026.
Each figure carries the condition Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) 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.
may not exceed $20,000 per household
Applies the HOMES pathway, paid on modelled energy savings.
Rebates for the HEAR program may not exceed $14,000 per household. Rebates for the HOMES program may not exceed $20,000 per household.Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
may not exceed $14,000 per household
Applies the HEAR pathway household cap, which covers heat pumps among other electric equipment; no separate heat pump figure is printed.
Rebates for the HEAR program may not exceed $14,000 per household. Rebates for the HOMES program may not exceed $20,000 per household.Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
up to 100% of the cost of qualifying upgrades
Applies enhanced rebate, household below 80% AMI.
Customers eligible for Enhanced Rebates may receive up to 100% of the cost of qualifying upgrades , depending on:Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
up to 50% of the cost of qualifying upgrades
Applies standard rebate, household at or above 80% AMI.
Customers eligible for Standard Rebates may receive up to 50% of the cost of qualifying upgrades . Any remaining project costs not covered by the rebate are the responsibility of the customer.Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), 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 Michigan, or whether there is one at all. Michigan pays a larger share below 80% of area median income and a smaller share between 80% and 150%, and right now only low to moderate income households can apply at all.
Applications are currently open to low- to moderate-income households only .Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), 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
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 .Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), 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.
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.
Yes, Michigan residents who are not eligible for the Home Energy Rebates Program are encouraged to apply for other energy efficiency funding, such as the IRA tax credits or utility rebates programs.Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), 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 Michigan rebate is money off the job, applied for through Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) 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.
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is one of only 10 state offices that address on its own pages whether the two can be claimed together. Its sentence is below, exactly as written, because whether two kinds of money can be combined on one job is a tax question and the office’s own wording is the only safe answer to it.
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.Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
Michigan is in the smaller group. 13 of the fifty states are taking applications from homeowners, against 31 that have announced a programme and never opened it and 6 in some other state of suspension. An open programme can close: at least one state has reserved its funding, shut, and reopened more than once inside two years.
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.
Michigan read September 23, 2026 from Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE)’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.