What Oregon Department of Energy has actually published, what it points homeowners at meanwhile, and which states are open today.
Oregon has opened and is not taking applications at the moment. Oregon Heat Pump Purchase Program is run by Oregon Department of Energy. Nationally 13 of 50 states are taking applications and 31 have announced a programme without opening one.
Program Starts Accepting Applications: June 17, 2025; Round 2 Funding Available: November 3, 2025
Start the application at Oregon Department of Energy Oregon Heat Pump Purchase Program, Oregon Department of Energy
Read September 23, 2026.
Each figure carries the condition Oregon 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.
$2,000
Applies owner occupied funding is fully reserved; rental property and new construction funding remains.
Oregon's Heat Pump Purchase Program provides $2,000 heat pump incentives for homeowners, rental property owners, and homes under construction.Oregon Department of Energy, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
up to $2,000
Applies reduced if combined incentives exceed the full purchase and installation price.
Incentives for any eligible residence are up to $2,000 and will only be reduced if the full incentive amount combined with other incentives received for the installation exceeds 100 percent of the total purchase and installation price.Oregon 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.
The work has to go through a contractor the programme has approved. the homeowner never applies; an ODOE approved contractor installs the heat pump, takes the incentive off the price, and files the claim
Contractors must register and be approved by ODOE to submit incentive reservations and incentive applications.Oregon 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.
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.
Earth Advantage will deliver the programs in the 38 consumer-owned and Idaho Power Company service areas, and Energy Trust of Oregon will deliver the programs in areas served by PGE and Pacific Power.Oregon 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 Oregon rebate is money off the job, applied for through Oregon 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.
Oregon Department of Energy 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.
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.Oregon Department of Energy, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
Oregon 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.
Oregon read September 23, 2026 from Oregon 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.