NYS Clean Heat Program and Heat-Pump Incentives

Supporting NYS Heat-Pump Incentives

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Enabling Electrification via Incentives

The NYS Clean Heat Statewide Heat Pump Program (“NYS Clean Heat Program”) is a collaboration between the New York electric utilities and NYSERDA. It will be implemented in coordination with several market-development initiatives. Consequently, the focus is to enable building electrification via heat-pump incentives in the form of rebates.

The program’s objectives are to:

• Facilitate a transition away from fossil-fuel heating
• Achieve statewide heat-pump goals and build a low-carbon market infrastructure
• Build market capacity to deliver building-electrification solutions
• Provide customers, contractors and heat-pump solution providers a consistent business environment

Eligibility for Incentives

Below are the requirements to participate in the program:

• Must have an active Con Edison electric utility account (no gas utility account is needed)
• The site must be occupied year-round (for new construction, owners must plan on year-round occupancy)
• For new construction, the baseline heating fuel for space heating and DHW will be determined on a case-by-case basis
• Heat pumps must be designed to provide domestic and service hot-water heating and/or both space heating and cooling (heat pumps used primarily for space cooling are ineligible)
• Heat-pump projects are eligible for incentives no matter which heating fuel (e.g., fuel oil, natural gas, propane, biomass, district steam or electricity) buildings are either transitioning from in retrofits or declining to include in new construction

Heat Pumps for Commercial/Industrial and Multifamily Buildings

HIGHMARK is focused on offering heat-pump solutions for the below two main categories in the program:

• Commercial and Industrial (View Manual)
• Multifamily (View Manual)

Subsequently, both of these segments are managed by Con Edison, which supplies the incentives.

Types & Rates of Incentives for Heat Pumps

The accompanying chart explains the heat-pump service options, the system descriptions and the different incentives that are available via rebates.

It breaks them down into three categories:

• Space Heating
• Water Heating
• Combined (Space and Water Heating)

Incentive-Qualifying Heat Pumps

HIGHMARK offers numerous heat pumps that qualify for incentives in the three categories of space heating, water heating and combined (space and water heating).

Click “view heat pumps” in the accompanying box to view all of our incentive-eligible heat pumps.