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NYSERDA Clean Heat heat pump rebates.
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NYSERDA Clean Heat pays up to $8,000 for a whole-home air-source heat pump and up to $15,000 for ground-source, delivered by the homeowner's electric utility at point of sale. Low- and moderate-income households qualify for an additional EmPower Plus layer, and all customers can stack the pending federal HEEHRA rebate (also administered by NYSERDA) for another $8,000 maximum.

What heat pump rebates does NYSERDA Clean Heat offer?

NYSERDA Clean Heat pays up to $8,000 for a whole-home air-source heat pump and up to $15,000 for ground-source, delivered by the homeowner's electric utility at point of sale. Low- and moderate-income households qualify for an additional EmPower Plus layer, and all customers can stack the pending federal HEEHRA rebate (also administered by NYSERDA) for another $8,000 maximum.

Overview

NYSERDA Clean Heat is the statewide coordination framework that standardizes heat pump rebates across all six investor-owned electric utilities in New York. Each utility funds and administers its own rebate check, but the eligibility criteria, equipment list, and contractor certification are NYSERDA-managed.

The program operates on a participating-contractor model — homeowners select from a NYSERDA-listed installer, and the contractor files paperwork with the appropriate utility on the customer's behalf. Rebates apply directly to the install invoice.

New York is the highest-volume HEEHRA-live state as of April 2026, and because both Clean Heat and HEEHRA are administered by NYSERDA, the stacking logic is the cleanest in the country. A single contractor files both rebates through one portal.

NYSERDA Clean Heat rebate programs

  • Clean Heat Whole-Home Rebate · $8,000 (air-source) / $15,000 (ground-source)Residential electric customer of Con Edison, National Grid, NYSEG, RG&E, Orange & Rockland, or Central Hudson; equipment must be on the NEEP Cold Climate list for installations north of I-84.
  • EmPower Plus (LMI Layer) · 100% of qualified costs up to $20,000 combinedHouseholds at or below 80% of State Median Income (SMI), verified through tax return, utility assistance enrollment, or NYSERDA income documentation.
  • Comfort Home Program · Up to $4,000 (verify on utility site)All New York residential customers; designed as weatherization pre-work that improves heat pump performance and reduces system sizing.

Stacking with HEEHRA and federal credits

Clean Heat and HEEHRA are both administered by NYSERDA, so stacking is automatic when the homeowner uses a participating contractor. See the HEEHRA guide for income bands — households under 80% AMI see the full $8,000 HEEHRA layer on top of Clean Heat. The net effective rebate on a 3-ton cold-climate install in an income-qualified household can exceed $16,000 before any federal tax treatment.

Comfort Home weatherization is additive to both Clean Heat and HEEHRA because weatherization is scoped and invoiced separately from the heat pump itself. See the rebate stacking guide for the order-of-operations. Do the Comfort Home assessment first — the resulting lower heat load often drops the heat pump by a half-ton, which reduces equipment cost and raises the effective rebate-as-percentage-of-install.

Application tips

Confirm your contractor is on the NYSERDA Clean Heat participating contractor list before signing. Non-participating contractors cannot file Clean Heat or HEEHRA paperwork, and retroactive filing is not permitted once equipment ships.

For installs north of I-84, verify the proposed equipment is on the NEEP Cold Climate list. Equipment outside the list is categorically ineligible, regardless of AHRI rating or ENERGY STAR tier, and substitution at install-time will void both the Clean Heat rebate and the HEEHRA stack.

If you think you are LMI-eligible, apply to EmPower Plus before booking the heat pump install. The EmPower assessment scopes weatherization, panel, and heat pump together and funds them at 100%, which is a dramatically better outcome than the Clean Heat + HEEHRA combination for qualifying households.

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NYSERDA Clean Heat rebates — frequently asked

No, Clean Heat rebate amounts are standardized by NYSERDA across all six participating utilities. The funding source differs — Con Edison recovers Clean Heat costs through NYC-specific delivery rates — but the homeowner-facing rebate is the same $8,000 cap statewide.
Yes, Clean Heat does not require fossil-fuel displacement to qualify. Air-source heat pumps installed as primary heat for a gas-heated home still qualify for the full rebate, though whole-home tier documentation is more stringent.
Point-of-sale rebates are applied to the invoice at install — the homeowner pays the net amount immediately. Internal utility reconciliation with NYSERDA takes 10–14 business days but is invisible to the customer.
Participating contractors are required to document the design load, typically using Manual J or an equivalent ACCA-approved method. The calculation does not need to be submitted with the rebate, but the contractor must retain it for NYSERDA audit.
The 25C heat pump credit was eliminated effective July 2025, so that stack is no longer available. The federal layer on current installs is HEEHRA (income-qualified, point-of-sale) rather than 25C, and HEEHRA stacks fully with Clean Heat through the same NYSERDA portal.
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