What Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources pays, the condition attached to each figure, who qualifies, who may do the work, and the page to apply on.
Rhode Island is taking applications now, through Clean Heat Rhode Island, run by Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources. The largest heat pump figure it prints is 60% of Heat Pump system and install cost. These incentives are capped at $11,500.. It is one of only 13 states out of 50 where a homeowner can apply today.
program launch, July 21, 2025
Start the application at Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources Incentives, Clean Heat Rhode Island
Read September 23, 2026.
Each figure carries the condition Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources 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.
capped at $18,000 per address
Applies total across the eligible heat pump portion of a project.
Clean Heat RI Incentives are capped at $18,000 per address. Incentives apply only to the eligible heat pump portion of the project. Costs for furnaces, unrelated work, or taxes are not included in incentive calculations.Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
60% of Heat Pump system and install cost. These incentives are capped at $11,500.
Applies products on the Rhode Island NEEP list; R-410A equipment ineligible from 1 January 2026.
Space Heating & Cooling | Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) | Products listed on the Rhode Island NEEP List. Effective January 1, 2026, equipment using R-410A refrigerant is ineligible. | 60% of Heat Pump system and install cost. These incentives are capped at $11,500.Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
60% of Heat Pump system and install cost. These incentives are capped at $11,500.
Applies ENERGY STAR and AHRI matched equipment.
Ground Source (Geothermal) Heat Pump | ENERGY STAR & AHRI Matched EquipmentRhode Island Office of Energy Resources, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$2,500
Applies integrated or split system heat pump water heater meeting the listed efficiency.
Hot Water | Integrated Heat Pump Water Heater (240 volt) | ENERGY STAR certified UEF 3.30 | $2,500Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources, 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.
Rhode Island publishes an income rule for this money. There is one income ceiling rather than tiers, set at 150 percent of state median income and verified from benefit enrolment or an income check.
Household income must be below 150% of State Median Income (SMI). Income verified via proof of active participation in SNAP, LIHEAP, RI Energy Discount Rate or via iVerifyRhode Island Office of Energy Resources, 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 an installer in the programme's own network
Must use an installer in the Clean Heat RI HPINRhode Island Office of Energy Resources, 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 state programme covers existing homes only and sends new construction projects to the Rhode Island Energy utility programme.
New construction projects: see RI Energy programRhode Island Office of Energy Resources, 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 Rhode Island rebate is money off the job, applied for through Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources 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.
Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources 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.
Rhode Island 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.
Rhode Island read September 23, 2026 from Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources’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.