What New Hampshire Department of Energy has actually published, what it points homeowners at meanwhile, and which states are open today.
New Hampshire has announced Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates (HEAR) Program through New Hampshire Department of Energy and has not opened it for applications. That is the most common position in the country: 31 of 50 states are in it, against 13 that are taking applications.
expected to launch Fall 2026
Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates Program, NH Department of Energy
Read September 23, 2026.
Each figure carries the condition New Hampshire Department of Energy 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.
$14,000
Applies household maximum across multiple appliances.
There is a maximum rebate amount of $14,000 for projects that include multiple appliances for the household.New Hampshire Department of Energy, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$8,000
Applies space heating and cooling; not payable until the programme opens.
Heat pump for space heating and cooling: $8,000New Hampshire Department of Energy, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$1,750
Heat pump hot water heater: $1,750New Hampshire Department of Energy, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$840
Heat pump clothes dryer: $840New Hampshire Department of Energy, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$840
Applies electric stove, cooktop, range or oven.
Electric stove, cooktop, range, or oven: $840New Hampshire Department of Energy, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$4,000
Electric load service center upgrade: $4,000New Hampshire Department of Energy, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$2,500
Electrical wiring: $2,500New Hampshire Department of Energy, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$1,600
Applies insulation, air sealing and ventilation together.
Insulation, air sealing, and ventilation: $1,600New Hampshire Department of Energy, 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 New Hampshire, or whether there is one at all. The programme is limited to households under 150 percent of area median income, and the share of project cost covered depends on which side of 80 percent the household falls.
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.New Hampshire Department of Energy, 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.
Until the state programme opens, the page sends homeowners to the utility run NH Saves programme for rebates available now.
NH Saves is an existing program that currently offers rebates on many energy-efficient products and technologies through your electricity provider (Eversource, Liberty, NH Electric Co-op, and Unitil).New Hampshire Department of Energy, 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 New Hampshire rebate is money off the job, applied for through New Hampshire Department of Energy 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.
New Hampshire Department of Energy 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.
New Hampshire 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.
New Hampshire read September 23, 2026 from New Hampshire Department of Energy’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.