What State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts has actually published, what it points homeowners at meanwhile, and which states are open today.
Texas has announced Texas Home Energy Rebates: Home Efficiency Rebates (HOMES) and Home Electrification and Appliance Rebate (HEAR) through State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts 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.
Read September 23, 2026.
Each figure carries the condition State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts 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 $8,000
Applies HOMES, open to all incomes, scaled by household income and expected energy savings.
Households of all income levels will be eligible to participate, including single-family homes and multifamily buildings. Rebate amounts up to $8,000 will be based on household income level and the expected energy savings.State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
up to $14,000 per household
Applies HEAR household cap across efficient electrical appliances and supporting upgrades, income qualified only.
Will help income-qualified households save money by providing rebates for specific efficient electrical appliances and supporting upgrades. Rebates will be determined based on technology and can range up to $14,000 per household.State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, 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 Texas, or whether there is one at all. The whole home programme is open at any income and scales by it; the appliance programme is limited to income qualified households.
Households of all income levels will be eligible to participate, including single-family homes and multifamily buildings.State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, 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 notes in passing that a local utility or municipality may have incentives of its own.
Your local utility or municipality may have additional incentives available.State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, 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 Texas rebate is money off the job, applied for through State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts 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.
State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts 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.
Texas 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.
Texas read September 23, 2026 from State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts’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.