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What else might have money on it
Categories, not amounts. This page exists because the question “what else is there?” is a fair one, and because the honest answer to it is longer than the list of things this site can currently stand behind.
Nothing on this page is served. No figure here has been dual-extracted, nothing here is in the corpus, and nothing here is a statement that you qualify for anything. These are categories worth asking about — that is the entire claim. What this site does serve is on the coverage page.
First, the thing that changed underneath all of it
Every federal residential energy credit is now closed. 25C and 25D ended with 2025; 30C, which paid for EV chargers, and 45L both ended on 2026-06-30 — eleven weeks ago.
| Section | What it covered | Closed for property |
|---|---|---|
| 25C | Energy Efficient Home Improvement — heat pumps, AC, furnaces, water heaters, insulation, windows, doors, panels, audits | placed in service after 2025-12-31 |
| 25D | Residential Clean Energy — solar, battery, geothermal, solar water heating | expenditures after 2025-12-31 |
| 25E | Previously-Owned Clean Vehicle | acquired after 2025-09-30 |
| 30D | New Clean Vehicle | acquired after 2025-09-30 |
| 30C | Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property — EV chargers | placed in service after 2026-06-30 |
| 45L | New Energy Efficient Home | acquired after 2026-06-30 |
Dates read from the IRS’s own FAQ on Public Law 119-21, verified 2026-09-17. Open the source. These are dates, not amounts, which is why they can appear here at all.
The practical consequence is worth saying plainly: every rebate calculator built between 2023 and 2025 was built around 25C, and most of them have not been updated. Anything still quoting a federal credit for a 2026 install is quoting a credit that does not exist. What is left is the utility, state, air-district, water-district and manufacturer layer — the fragmented one, where a ZIP does not settle who administers you. That is the layer this site is about.
The exception is the state-run Home Energy Rebates, which survived. They are administered by each state rather than federally, so whether they have launched, paused, or run out of money is a state-by-state question. The programme names these measures: electric panel; electric or induction stove, cooktop, range or oven; electric wiring; heat pump water heater; heat pump air conditioner or heater; heat pump clothes dryer; and weatherisation, meaning insulation, air sealing and ventilation. Five of those seven are things an HVAC or plumbing contractor already touches. Naming what a programme covers is not the same as saying you qualify for it, and this site has not verified either.
Commonly claimed
The high-volume categories — worth knowing because they are what a customer will already be asking about.
| Category | Note |
|---|---|
| Ducted and ductless heat pumps | The anchor measure of nearly every residential utility programme, and the one most contractors already claim. |
| Smart thermostats | The highest-volume consumer rebate by unit count, often bundled with an enrolment that pays again every year. |
| Central AC and furnace replacement | Tiered by efficiency. Claimed often, though frequently at the wrong tier. |
| Attic and wall insulation, air sealing | The usual second measure on a weatherisation job. |
| Water heaters | Claimed constantly — but almost always as a like-for-like gas replacement. |
| Appliance recycling | The utility hauls away the working second fridge and pays for it. High uptake because it takes one phone call. |
| EV chargers | Still carried by many utilities, even though the federal credit behind them expired on 2026-06-30. |
Routinely missed
The answer to “what are people not claiming”. Ordered by how much tends to go unclaimed each time it happens.
| Category | Why it gets missed |
|---|---|
| Electrical panel and service upgrades | The largest gap on this page. A panel gets bought as a prerequisite for the heat pump or the charger and disappears into the job total as electrical work — and the trade quoting the panel is often not the trade quoting the rebatable equipment. Money falls through the seam between them. |
| Electric wiring and circuits | The same seam, smaller ticket, same outcome. |
| Heat pump water heaters | The gap here is structural, not informational. Water heaters get replaced in an emergency, same day, like for like, by whoever can come. A measure needing a different appliance, a different footprint, possible electrical work and paperwork loses that race every time. |
| Heat pump clothes dryers | Almost nobody knows a dryer can carry an incentive at all. |
| Induction and electric ranges | A stove does not feel like an energy appliance to the person buying it. |
| Duct sealing and duct insulation | Routinely skipped even on jobs where the equipment incentive is claimed. The crew is already there and the measure is already done; the second form is what does not get filed. |
| Ventilation, ERV and HRV | Named inside the weatherisation line of the federal programme below, and almost never marketed as incentivised. |
| Demand response and bring-your-own-device enrolment | Not a rebate — a recurring annual payment for a thermostat, water heater, battery or charger. People take the one-time thermostat money and never enrol in the thing that pays every year after. The lowest effort-to-money ratio in the sector. |
| Midstream and instant distributor incentives | Contractor-side, and invisible to every consumer-facing calculator that exists, because the money comes off at the distributor counter rather than on a form afterwards. A contractor who does not know the programme exists simply pays more for the equipment and never finds out. |
| Manufacturer promotions stacked on a utility incentive | Seasonal, and they stack. Contractors commonly claim one and not the other. |
| Multifamily and rental splits | The landlord buys the equipment and the tenant pays the bill. Programmes are designed around one or the other, so both sides assume they do not qualify. |
| Small commercial direct install | Your own shop, and your small-business customers. Rarely reached by residential marketing. |
The boundaries nobody maps
This site already exists because a ZIP does not tell you which electric utility is on the meter. That problem is not confined to electricity.
| Layer | Why it is hard |
|---|---|
| Water and irrigation | Turf replacement, smart irrigation controllers, high-efficiency fixtures, leak detection, greywater, rain capture. These are plumbing measures, they are frequently large, and they are governed by a water-agency boundary that matches neither the electric utility, nor the gas utility, nor the city, nor the county. |
| Sewer district | Backflow prevention and lateral programmes, on a fourth boundary again. |
| Well and septic | Rural, and thinly covered by anything. |
| Air district | Scrappage and emissions repair sit on a boundary of their own, matching neither utility nor state. |
Each of these runs on a boundary that matches neither the electric utility, nor the gas utility, nor the state. Collapsing any of them into a county or a ZIP is how a wrong answer gets produced confidently.
What would have to be true before any of this is served. The same thing that is true of everything else on this site: a programme page and an implementer document, read twice and agreeing, with a funding status and a verification date, inside the staleness window. Until that exists for a category, it stays on this page as a question rather than moving to the coverage page as an answer — and the gap between the two lists is published on what I don’t know rather than hidden.
If one of these is sitting on a job you are quoting now, send it over and I will look at it for free: will@punchlistrebates.com.