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Washington is one of the 13 states taking applications

Washington Heat Pump Rebates: Open, and What They Pay

What Washington State Department of Commerce, Energy Division pays, the condition attached to each figure, who qualifies, who may do the work, and the page to apply on.

Open
Where the programme stands
one of 13 states taking applications
None printed
Largest figure the office prints
21 states print none
0
Figures published in all
programme design not finished
Yes / No
Income rule, approved contractor
nationally, 34 states publish an income rule
The answer

You can apply in Washington today

OpenState Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates Program (HEAR)

Washington is taking applications now, through State Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates Program (HEAR), run by Washington State Department of Commerce, Energy Division. The office has published no heat pump figure yet. It is one of only 13 states out of 50 where a homeowner can apply today.

  • Washington has published no dollar figure for any measure. 21 states are in the same position, which usually means the programme design is not finished rather than that the money is small.
  • Washington publishes an income rule for this money. One ceiling: household income at or below 150 percent of area median income for the county, though each local administrator may set its own criteria.
  • The state does not take applications itself. It hands money to forty local bodies, many of them public utility districts, counties, cities and tribes, and sends the reader to whichever one covers their address.
  • Applications go through Washington State Department of Commerce, Energy Division.

Washington State Department of Commerce, Energy Division

Commerce invested approximately $73.5 million from the Climate Commitment Act in 55 rebate and incentive programs across Washington state from 2024-2025

Start the application at Washington State Department of Commerce, Energy Division Inflation Reduction Act Home Energy Rebates, Washington State Department of Commerce

Read September 23, 2026.

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What is published so far

Washington has published no dollar figure yet

21 states are in the same position. An office that has named a programme and published no amount has told a reader something real rather than nothing: the design is not finished, and any figure quoted for Washington from somewhere other than Washington State Department of Commerce, Energy Division is an estimate of what the state might do rather than a number the state has published.

Washington runs its own state funded rebate through forty local administrators, so a homeowner applies to whichever county, city, utility district or tribe covers their address, and if none has been named for that area there is nothing to apply to yet.

Inflation Reduction Act Home Energy Rebates, Washington State Department of Commerce

Who it is for, and who may do the work

The two conditions that end most applications

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.

Who qualifies in Washington

Washington publishes an income rule for this money. One ceiling: household income at or below 150 percent of area median income for the county, though each local administrator may set its own criteria.

Low-income, moderate-income (LMI), single and multifamily households, including renters, with household income that is 150% of Area Median Income (AMI) or less based on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Income Limits Dataset for your county
Washington State Department of Commerce, Energy Division, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
An installer in a dust mask and gloves kneeling on joists in a bare attic, laying a fresh batt of pink insulation into the bay beside several already filled, with the roof sheathing close overhead
Fifteen states print a dollar figure for insulation, which puts it fifth behind the air source pump, the whole home cap, the water heater and the electrical panel. It is also the measure most likely to be required before the rest: several offices will pay for a pump only after the envelope has been dealt with, on the reasoning that a pump sized to a leaking house is a pump sized wrong. Where an office has written that rule down, the state page quotes it. “Installing installation in an attic (9337)”, The EnergySmart Academy, CC0
What to do meanwhile

The other Washington money

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.

What Washington State Department of Commerce, Energy Division points at

The state does not take applications itself. It hands money to forty local bodies, many of them public utility districts, counties, cities and tribes, and sends the reader to whichever one covers their address.

Not all program administrators offer rebates based on the eligibility criteria listed above, and applications processes may vary. Please check with your local program administrator to learn if you qualify.
Washington State Department of Commerce, Energy Division, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
A worker in a respirator and knee pads fitting a white moisture barrier and batts of insulation into the low crawl space under a house, working on their side between the floor joists and the bare earth
Weatherization work under a floor, which for most of the country is the only home energy money with a door open on it. Thirty one state energy offices point a homeowner at a utility programme or a weatherization agency while their own rebate is still being designed, and the referral is usually buried well below the announcement. The work in this frame is what that referral leads to. “DOE weatherization services (677)”, U.S. Department of Energy, Public Domain
The other money

A Washington rebate is not the federal tax credit

These are two separate programmes and conflating them is the commonest error on pages about this. A Washington rebate is money off the job, applied for through Washington State Department of Commerce, Energy Division 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.

Washington State Department of Commerce, Energy Division 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.

How Washington compares

13 states are taking applications, 31 are not

Washington 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.

A tall grey outdoor condenser unit standing on a frame against a stone garden wall, its fins and louvred side panel filling the frame, no maker’s plate or badge visible anywhere on it
The outdoor half of a heat pump is the same box in the same place as the outdoor half of an air conditioner, which is why so many homeowners cannot tell from the yard which one they already own. It matters to the paperwork: an office that pays for a swap usually wants to know what the house burns today, and Arizona has written that from September 2026 it will pay only where the equipment being replaced was already electric. “Outdoor air conditioner unit installed in residential garden space”, Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0

Washington heat pump rebate questions

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Heat pump rebates in other states

Washington heating assistanceHelp with the heating bill itself, which is a different programme with its own income test and its own deadline.Washington heating fuel pricesWhat the fuel in the tank costs this winter, which is the number a heat pump is usually being weighed against.Washington winter shutoff rulesWhether a utility may disconnect heat in winter where you live, and the dates the protection runs.Washington heating seasonWhen the heat normally goes on, which is the window any of this work has to be finished inside.

Washington read September 23, 2026 from Washington State Department of Commerce, Energy Division’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.