US heat pump rebates in 2026
Last verified: July 28, 2026 — federal position checked against the IRS.
What exactly ended
Section 25C was the workhorse. For a qualifying heat pump it was worth up to $2,000 per year, covering 30% of qualified expenses including installation labour, with no lifetime cap — you could claim it again in a later year for another improvement.
The IRS is precise about the end: the credit is allowed for qualifying property placed in service on or after 1 January 2023 and before 31 December 2025, and you can claim it for improvements made through December 31, 2025.
The practical consequence: the date the equipment was placed in service is what counts, not when you paid or ordered. If your installation was completed in 2025, you claim it on that year’s return using Form 5695. If it happens in 2026, there is no 25C credit to claim.
One trap worth knowing if you are claiming for 2025
For property placed in service in 2025, the IRS added a requirement: the item must have been produced by a qualified manufacturer, and you must report the Qualified Manufacturer Identification Number (QMID) on your return. No QMID, no credit — even for equipment that otherwise qualifies. Your installer or the manufacturer supplies it.
So what is left
State and utility programmes. These were never the same thing as the federal credit and they did not disappear with it — but they are a patchwork. Some are live, some are still launching, some are paused when funding runs out. Many are income-qualified, meaning the headline number is only available to households under a threshold.
That is precisely why this site exists: the answer to “what can I get?” is now entirely a function of where you live.
State pages: how we are doing this
We are building state pages one at a time, and we publish a state only when its own energy office confirms the figures. No aggregator data, no copying other trackers, no “approximately”. If a programme is income-qualified or waitlisted, that will be in the first paragraph, not buried.
All eight are done. Each was checked against the programme administrator’s own pages, and each says plainly whether the money is actually reachable today:
New York
NYS Clean Heat · amount depends on your utility
- Air source with decommissioning: $8,000–$12,000
- Ground source retrofit: up to $25,000
- Capped at 70% of project cost, 85% in a Disadvantaged Community
Wisconsin
Focus on Energy · instant discounts, no forms
- HEAR: up to $8,000 heat pump, under 150% AMI
- Instant discounts $400–$700 off the invoice, any income
- Rules change 1 September 2026
Colorado
State tax credit open · HEAR mostly closed
- Tax credit $1,000 air-source / $2,000 ground-source, no income test
- At least a third comes off upfront as a contractor discount
- HEAR closed on the Front Range
Maryland
No open state air-source rebate
- State geothermal rebate closed, final year
- HEAR not launched — DOE approvals outstanding
- Utility route: $400 up to $15,000 income-qualified
North Carolina
Energy Saver NC · instant rebate at the contractor
- Up to $8,000 for a heat pump, under 150% AMI
- Live in all 100 counties, runs to 2031
- Duke Smart $aver adds $350–$900, no income test
Rhode Island
Clean Heat RI · 60% of project cost
- 60% up to $11,500, plus $2,500 water heater
- Income limit is $124,950 for one person — higher than most assume
- R-410A equipment ineligible from 1 Jan 2026
California
Statewide programmes fully reserved
- TECH Clean California stopped taking reservations
- HEEHRA fully reserved, waitlist only
- Live money is SMUD, LADWP and a $500 coupon
Washington
Run by local administrators
- State HEAR open but publishes no statewide amount
- Federally funded rebates not launched, not retroactive
- Seattle oil conversion: up to $6,000 to 30 Sept 2026
That is all eight verified. If your state is not here, the reliable move is still your own state energy office and your electric utility — and if you check and find something worth adding, send it to us.
In the meantime, the reliable move is to check your own state energy office and your electric utility directly. Utility rebates are frequently the larger of the two and are the most often missed.
The 50-state tracker
Eight states are verified against their own programme administrators. The other forty-three rows are empty on purpose: we would rather show you a blank than a number we have not checked. Rebate trackers that fill every row are copying each other, and that is exactly how a programme that closed in April is still being advertised in July.
| State | Status | What we verified |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Alaska | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Arizona | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Arkansas | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| California | Statewide closed | TECH closed 14 Nov 2025; HEEHRA fully reserved, waitlist only. Utility money only (SMUD, LADWP). |
| Colorado | Partly closed | State tax credit $1,000 air-source, no income test. HEAR closed on the Front Range. |
| Connecticut | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Delaware | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| District of Columbia | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Florida | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Georgia | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Hawaii | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Idaho | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Illinois | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Indiana | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Iowa | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Kansas | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Kentucky | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Louisiana | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Maine | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Maryland | No state rebate | No open state air-source rebate. Geothermal closed, HEAR not launched. Utility $400–$15,000. |
| Massachusetts | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Michigan | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Minnesota | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Mississippi | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Missouri | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Montana | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Nebraska | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Nevada | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| New Hampshire | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| New Jersey | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| New Mexico | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| New York | Open to 2030 | NYS Clean Heat $8,000–$12,000 with decommissioning; ground source to $25,000. Varies by utility. |
| North Carolina | Open, all counties | Energy Saver NC up to $8,000, instant at the contractor. Duke adds $350–$900. |
| North Dakota | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Ohio | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Oklahoma | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Oregon | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Pennsylvania | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Rhode Island | Open | Clean Heat RI 60% up to $11,500. Income limit $124,950 for one person. |
| South Carolina | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| South Dakota | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Tennessee | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Texas | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Utah | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Vermont | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Virginia | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Washington | No published figure | State HEAR open but amounts set locally. Seattle oil conversion up to $6,000. |
| West Virginia | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
| Wisconsin | HEAR live | HEAR up to $8,000 under 150% AMI, plus $400–$700 instant discounts for everyone. |
| Wyoming | Not yet tracked | We have not verified this state against its own energy office yet, so we publish nothing for it. |
Last verified: July 28, 2026 — the eight linked states were each checked against the administering body’s own pages on that date. The remaining rows carry no data because none has been verified.
Waiting on your state? The two places worth checking yourself are your state energy office and your electric utility — and utility programmes are the ones most often missed. If you find something solid, send us the link and we will verify and publish it.
What checking eight states actually showed
Three patterns came out of doing this properly, and none of them match the way rebate sites usually summarise the US:
- Reputation is a bad guide. California is the state everyone assumes is most generous; right now its statewide programmes are closed or waitlisted. North Carolina, which nobody names, is paying up to $8,000 in every county with the money taken off at the contractor.
- “Income-qualified” does not mean “low income”. Rhode Island’s limit is $124,950 for a single-person household. Plenty of people rule themselves out without checking.
- The published amount and the reachable amount are different things. Colorado’s HEAR figures are still on the page for a programme that closed on the Front Range in April. Maryland’s utility still advertises a state rebate the state shut down in January.
That gap — between what is published and what you can actually get today — is the whole reason this site exists.
A note on stacking, and on tax
If you are combining incentives, one detail from the IRS is worth carrying forward: rebates tied to the purchase price — from a manufacturer, distributor, seller or installer — are subtracted from your qualified expenses, as are public utility subsidies. State energy efficiency incentives are generally not subtracted, but they may count as income for federal tax purposes. This is genuinely fiddly and depends on how a programme is structured — we are not tax advisers, and this is a question for one.
Sources
- IRS — Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit: claim window through 31 December 2025, $2,000 heat pump limit, QMID requirement for 2025, treatment of rebates and state incentives. Page last reviewed 28 April 2026.
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