Find Your Massachusetts Rebates
In Massachusetts, the single most important thing about your energy rebates is which utility bills you — and unlike most states, your electric utility and your gas utility can put you under two completely different administrators at the same time. Enter your ZIP in the finder and, where both an electric and a gas utility serve your address, it resolves both.
Every program on this page is listed as its administrator publishes it, with a link to that source and the date we last checked it. Amounts, deadlines and funding status change without notice, so confirm with the administrator before you buy equipment or sign a contract.
Residential Energy Rebates in Massachusetts
Mass Save is a brand, not a utility
Mass Save is the statewide efficiency brand, and it is delivered by six investor-owned Sponsors — the gas and electric utilities themselves. It carries the largest single block of programs in the state, covering heat pumps, weatherization, water heating, appliances and thermostats. Which Sponsor you deal with, and therefore who processes your rebate, depends on your service address.
If your town runs its own electric light plant
Roughly four dozen Massachusetts towns are served by a municipal light plant rather than an investor-owned utility. Municipal customers are outside Mass Save’s electric programs — but that is not the end of the answer, and this is the point most sources get wrong.
Mass Save reaches a household through either its electric or its gas account. Mass Save’s own guidance is that customers in municipal electric territories remain eligible for heat pump rebates if they heat with natural gas from one of the Sponsors. Most municipal-electric towns in Massachusetts do have Sponsor gas service, so a municipal customer can often qualify for Mass Save offers through the gas side while also being eligible for their own light plant’s programs. Customers whose gas is municipal are genuinely excluded. The finder works out which case applies to your ZIP.
Municipal light plant programs are their own money
Municipal programs are not a lesser version of the statewide one, and they are not duplicates of it. They are funded locally and they can pay more. Reading’s light department publishes a higher heat pump ceiling than the Mass Save cap, for example. Two shared administrators run programs on behalf of many of these towns — NextZero, operated by MMWEC for 23 light departments, and Energy New England, which delivers programs for 21 Massachusetts towns.
Amounts under those two behave very differently. NextZero publishes the same schedule across all 23 towns. Energy New England does not: its member towns set their own amounts, and the spread on the same measure can be several times over. Never assume a neighboring town’s figure applies to yours — confirm with your own light department.
Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard
Cape Light Compact JPE is its own efficiency administrator serving the Cape and the Vineyard, with a full residential and commercial portfolio of its own. If your ZIP is in its territory, the finder shows its programs rather than assuming the statewide ones apply.
Income-eligible households
Massachusetts runs a two-tier income structure — an Income Eligible tier and a higher Enhanced Incentive tier — using a published table keyed to household size. Meeting the income test can change both what you qualify for and how much of the project cost is covered. The finder shows the administrator’s published table so you can find your own household size and answer for yourself; we do not calculate your limit for you.
Commercial Energy Rebates in Massachusetts
Start with your utility
For most Massachusetts businesses the workhorse commercial programs come through the Mass Save Sponsors, covering lighting and controls, HVAC, heat pumps, refrigeration and custom projects. Cape Light Compact runs the equivalent portfolio in its own territory.
Start with an assessment
Commercial programs in Massachusetts frequently require the assessment or pre-approval step before work begins, and incentives can be forfeited if equipment is installed first. Confirm the sequence with your administrator before you order anything.
State programs and tax provisions
Beyond the utilities, the Department of Energy Resources, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, the Department of Agricultural Resources and the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities each run their own programs, and the Department of Revenue administers energy-related tax provisions. These are separate applications with their own deadlines.
Commercial Projects: Work With an Energy Professional
Massachusetts commercial incentives reward projects that are specified correctly before purchase — efficiency tiers, controls strategy and pre-approval sequencing all affect what a project earns. An energy professional can help you order the steps so the incentive survives the project.
Frequently Asked Questions
My town has its own electric utility. Am I shut out of Mass Save?
Not necessarily. Mass Save is delivered by gas and electric Sponsors, and eligibility can come through either account. If you heat with natural gas from one of the Sponsors, Mass Save offers can apply to you through your gas heating account while your light department’s own programs apply on the electric side. If your gas is also municipal, you are outside Mass Save. Enter your ZIP and the finder will tell you which case you are in.
Why does the next town over get a bigger rebate than I do?
Because in Massachusetts it genuinely can. Municipal light plants fund their own programs and set their own amounts, so two neighboring towns under the same shared administrator can publish very different figures for the same measure. Confirm the amount with your own light department rather than the town next door.
Can I claim from my electric and my gas utility for the same project?
Sometimes, and it depends on the measure and the administrators involved. Programs state their own stacking rules and some explicitly exclude combining. Ask each administrator about the specific measure before you assume both will pay.
Do I need approval before I start work?
For many commercial programs, yes, and for some residential measures an assessment has to come first. Starting work early is one of the most common reasons an incentive is denied. Confirm the required sequence with the administrator before you buy or install.
How do I know these amounts are current?
Each entry links to the administrator’s own published page and carries the date we last checked it. Amounts, deadlines and funding status change without notice, so confirm with the administrator before you buy equipment or sign a contract.
All 122 programs we track for MA
Each program below is listed as its administrator publishes it, with a link to that source and the date we last checked it.
Programs for homes
Mass Save (six Sponsors) 19 programs
Home Energy Assessment (Virtual or In-Person)
Estimated benefit: No-cost virtual or in-person Home Energy Assessments, plus 75-100% off approved insulation improvements and no-cost targeted air sealing.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“The Sponsors of Mass Save offer no-cost virtual or in-person Home Energy Assessments.”
Our energy expert: This is the right first step for almost any home in Mass Save Sponsor territory, and not only because it costs nothing — the insulation and air sealing money downstream only pays for measures the assessment recommends, so skipping it closes doors. Your coverage on insulation falls in a range rather than at a fixed percentage, and what moves you within it is income and community designation rather than the condition of the house. Which lead vendor runs your assessment depends on your Sponsor, so the experience differs by territory. Book the assessment before you take a contractor quote; the quote should be priced against the recommendations, not the other way round.
Insulation and Air Sealing
Estimated benefit: Get 75-100 percent off approved insulation and air sealing improvements.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Get 75-100 percent off approved insulation and air sealing improvements.”
Our energy expert: The published coverage runs from 75 to 100 percent, and what moves you within that range sits on other pages rather than on the insulation page itself — it is income qualification and whether you are in a Designated Equity Community or a landlord or renter arrangement, each of which is explained on its own page. That means a homeowner reading this one page cannot tell what they will pay, and the honest first step is to find out which of those categories applies to you. Air sealing is separate and comes at no cost where it is targeted work. Have the assessment done and ask the lead vendor directly which coverage tier your household falls into before you schedule the insulation.
ENERGY STAR Windows
Estimated benefit: $75 per window.
Timing: The rebate is good for purchases made from January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2026. Applications for 2026 rebates and all necessary materials must be postmarked or submitted online by February 28, 2027.
“Save $75 per window when you upgrade your single-pane windows to ENERGY STAR Most Efficient certified windows.”
Our energy expert: The eligibility condition rules out most of the homes people expect to qualify: the window being replaced has to be single-pane, so swapping a tired double-glazed unit earns nothing here. Certification has to be for the northern climate region, and the existing windows have to be verified before removal — once they are out, there is nothing left to verify. The rebate is per window so the total scales with the job, but the purchase has to fall inside 2026 with the application submitted or postmarked by 28 February 2027. Arrange the pre-removal verification before the installer arrives.
Air Source Heat Pump — Whole-Home Rebate
Estimated benefit: $2,650 per ton, up to $8,500. Income-based enhanced incentive: up to $16,000 or up to no cost through Turnkey Services.
Timing: Equipment must be installed between January 1, 2026 and December 31, 2026. Rebate form and supporting documentation must be received by February 28, 2027. The deadline for equipment purchased in 2025 was February 28, 2026.
“"Whole-Home $2,650 per ton * up to $8,500 ... Income-Based Enhanced Incentives ** Up to $16,000 or up to no cost through Turnkey Services" — 2026 Air Source Heat Pump Rebates table, masssave.com, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Whole-home is a per-ton rate with a cap rather than a flat payment, so a system around three tons reaches the ceiling and a two-ton system earns noticeably less — tonnage decides the money up to that point. Qualifying as whole-home also requires sufficient weatherization, which Mass Save defines three different ways, and a project failing that test drops to the much lower partial-home rate. Who supplies your energy matters as much as the equipment: municipal electric customers qualify only if they heat with natural gas from a Sponsor, and municipal gas heating customers are not eligible at all. Have an HVAC professional confirm which tier your design lands in, and settle the weatherization question, before equipment is ordered.
Air Source Heat Pump — Partial-Home Rebate
Estimated benefit: $1,125 per ton up to $8,500, plus a $500 weatherization bonus and a $500 sizing bonus.
Timing: Equipment must be installed between January 1, 2026 and December 31, 2026. Rebate form and supporting documentation must be received by February 28, 2027.
“$1,125 per ton up to $8,500”
Our energy expert: Partial-home pays less than half the whole-home per-ton rate against the same ceiling, so the first thing to establish is whether the project could qualify as whole-home instead — the gap is wide enough to justify doing the weatherization first. Two $500 bonuses sit on top: one for weatherization, one for sizing the heat pumps to the home's total heating load, which in practice means a Manual J. If any zone still burns oil, propane or gas, an integrated control from the Mass Save qualified list is mandatory rather than optional. Ask your installer for the Manual J and the control model before you sign.
Air Source Heat Pump — Basic Rebate
Estimated benefit: $250 per ton up to $2,500.
Timing: Equipment must be installed between January 1, 2026 and December 31, 2026. Rebate form and supporting documentation must be received by February 28, 2027.
“$250 per ton up to $2,500”
Our energy expert: Basic is the tier for projects that are not displacing fossil fuel or electric resistance heat — replacing an existing heat pump or central air, conditioning a new addition, or a summer home — and it pays roughly a tenth of the headline whole-home figure. A lot of enquiries land here without realising it, so establish which tier applies before you plan around a number. It is a per-ton rate with its own much lower cap, so system size does not rescue it. If you are replacing a working heat pump, have the contractor price the job on its own merits and treat this rebate as a small contribution.
Air to Water Heat Pump
Estimated benefit: $2,650 per ton up to $8,500 standard; up to $16,000 under the income-based enhanced rebate.
Timing: Equipment must be installed between January 1, 2026 and December 31, 2026. Rebate form and supporting documentation must be received by February 28, 2027.
“$2,650 per ton up to $8,500”
Our energy expert: Read the headline on this program carefully: the larger figure is the income-qualified enhanced rebate, not the standard one, and the standard air-to-water rebate is a per-ton rate against a lower cap. Treating the enhanced number as the general amount is the most common mistake made with this page. Air-to-water suits hydronic homes with existing radiators or in-floor loops, and the installer pool is smaller, so design quality varies more than it does on air-to-air. If your property is in Cape Light Compact territory the Compact's enhanced terms differ from the statewide ones — confirm which tier you qualify for with a hydronic-experienced installer before you commit.
Ground Source Heat Pump
Estimated benefit: Whole-home $13,500 per home; partial-home $2,000 per ton up to $13,500; income-based enhanced up to $25,000.
Timing: Equipment must be installed between January 1, 2026 and December 31, 2026. Rebate form and supporting documentation must be received by February 28, 2027.
“Whole-Home | $13,500 per home”
Our energy expert: Ground source works on a different mechanism from air source and the two are easy to conflate: whole-home is a flat amount per home regardless of tonnage, while partial-home is a per-ton rate against the same ceiling. So on a whole-home ground source project the system size does not change the rebate, and on a partial-home one it does, which flips the usual sizing logic. If you are a Cape Light Compact customer, Mass Save's own page states the Compact's enhanced ground source terms are not the figure shown, so confirm those with the Compact. Have a geothermal contractor confirm which path your design takes before drilling is scheduled.
Integrated Controls
Estimated benefit: $500 per indoor unit, up to $1,500.
Timing: Units must be installed between January 1, 2026 and December 31, 2026. Rebate form and supporting documentation must be received by February 28, 2027.
“$500 per indoor unit, up to $1,500”
Our energy expert: The exclusion is the important part: this cannot be claimed on a new heat pump installation, only as a retrofit to a system you already have — so if you are installing now, controls belong in the heat pump rebate conversation instead. It pays per indoor unit against a cap, which means a three-head system reaches the ceiling and a larger one does not go further. What integrated controls actually buy you is stopping a backup fossil system and a heat pump from fighting each other, which is where most of the wasted money in a hybrid house goes. Ask your installer whether your existing equipment supports a qualified control before you buy one.
Heat Pump Water Heaters
Estimated benefit: $750 per unit for an ENERGY STAR heat pump water heater (UEF 3.30, or UEF 2.20 for 120-volt/15-amp); $1,500 per system for split-system models (UEF 2.20).
Timing: Equipment must be installed by a licensed plumber between January 1, 2026 and December 31, 2026. Rebate form and supporting documentation must be received by February 28, 2027.
“Heat Pump Water Heater | ENERGY STAR certified UEF 3.30 | $750 per unit”
Our energy expert: The split-system tier pays double the standard one, and that is a decision worth making deliberately rather than by default — the installed cost difference is usually smaller than the rebate gap. Qualification runs on UEF thresholds that differ by unit type, including a lower bar for 120-volt, 15-amp models that plug into an existing circuit and avoid an electrical upgrade. Installation has to be by a licensed plumber inside the calendar year with documentation in by 28 February 2027. Ask your plumber to price a split-system option alongside the standard one before you decide.
Smart and Programmable Thermostats
Estimated benefit: Up to $100 per ENERGY STAR certified smart thermostat and up to $25 per 7-day programmable thermostat, limit three each.
Timing: Units must be installed between January 1, 2026 and December 31, 2026. Rebate form and supporting documentation must be received by February 28, 2027.
“7-Day Programmable Thermostat | Up to $25/thermostat (limit 3); ENERGY STAR Certified Smart Thermostat | Up to $100/thermostat (limit 3)”
Our energy expert: Both of these are capped at three units per household, so the useful question is how many rooms or zones you are actually controlling rather than what one thermostat earns. A certified smart thermostat pays four times what a 7-day programmable one does, which usually more than covers the price difference. Installation has to fall inside the calendar year with documentation in by 28 February 2027. Check your model against the ENERGY STAR certified list before you buy — that list, not the marketing, is what the rebate turns on.
Room Air Conditioners
Estimated benefit: $40 rebate.
Timing: The rebate is good for purchases made from January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2026. Applications must be postmarked or submitted online by February 28, 2027.
“Purchase an ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioner—and get a $40 rebate.”
Our energy expert: Eligibility here is four Sponsors, not six: gas-only Sponsors are excluded because there is no electric account for the rebate to pay against, so check who supplies your electricity before you plan on it. It is a modest flat rebate on a qualifying unit, which makes it a reason to choose a certified model rather than a reason to buy one. Purchases have to fall inside the calendar year with the application in by 28 February 2027. Keep the receipt and the model number — that is all this one asks of you.
Clothes Washers
Estimated benefit: $150 rebate.
Timing: The rebate is good for purchases made from January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2026. Applications must be postmarked or submitted online by February 28, 2027.
“Purchase an ENERGY STAR certified clothes washer—and get a $150 rebate.”
Our energy expert: The condition on this rebate is unusually strict and easy to miss: the washer you are replacing has to be top-loading with an agitator, still working, and verified before it is removed. A front-loader or a dead machine does not qualify however old it is. Verification before removal means arranging it ahead of delivery day, not after the old unit is on the kerb. Confirm the current rebate amount and the verification process before you buy, and have the retailer schedule delivery around it.
Appliance Recycling — Refrigerators, Freezers and Dehumidifiers
Estimated benefit: $75 for a refrigerator or freezer with no-cost pickup; $30 for a working dehumidifier.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Schedule a no-cost pickup and receive a $75 rebate. / Get $30 for turning in your old, working dehumidifier.”
Our energy expert: Fridge and freezer recycling comes with no-cost pickup on top of the rebate, and the removal is usually worth as much as the payment to anyone without a truck. The dehumidifier offer is separate, smaller, requires the unit to be working, and is applied for through its own route rather than the same one. Both amounts come off the Mass Save recycling index rather than the individual program pages, so confirm your figure on the page for the specific appliance. Schedule the pickup before you buy the replacement — an old unit already hauled away earns nothing.
Income Eligible Program
Estimated benefit: No-cost upgrades — heat pumps, insulation, air sealing, replacement appliances, thermostats, LED bulbs, water-saving fixtures and eligible window replacement.
Timing: The published income table is scoped to the 2025-2026 heating season.
“Replacement of your heating system with high-efficiency heat pumps; Installation of additional attic, wall, and basement insulation; Air sealing of the drafty areas of your home; Replacement appliances, including refrigerators, freezers, dehumidifiers, window air conditioners, and/or clothes washers if your current appliances are inefficient; A programmable, Wi-Fi, or smart thermostat; LED energy-saving light bulbs; Water-saving faucet aerators and showerheads; Replacement of eligible inefficient windows”
Our energy expert: If you qualify on income here the work is done at no cost rather than discounted — heat pumps, insulation, air sealing, appliances, thermostats and eligible window replacement — which makes the income question the only one that really matters. The published income table is scoped to the 2025-2026 heating season and will move, so confirm the current limits rather than working from a table you saw earlier in the year. Mass Save's own two-column tables carry typographical errors at several household sizes; the single-column table on this program page is internally consistent and is the one to read. Call your Sponsor or local agency to be screened — eligibility is determined there, not on the website.
Enhanced Residential Offers (moderate income, turnkey)
Estimated benefit: A fully managed home energy upgrade for up to no cost, including no-cost weatherization, air source heat pumps and up to 100% of electrical panel and barrier-removal costs.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Get a fully managed, energy transformation for your home for up to no cost.”
Our energy expert: This is the moderate-income tier between no-cost and standard, and the distinguishing feature is that it is managed for you: a coordinated upgrade including weatherization, heat pumps and up to the full cost of panel work and barrier removal. That barrier and panel coverage is what makes older houses actually electrifiable, and it is the part standard offers leave the homeowner holding. The income tables on these pages contain known typographical errors at some household sizes, so take the figures from the Income-Based Assistance page rather than the program page. Get screened before you line up contractors — the turnkey route uses its own, and that changes how the project runs.
Enhanced Heat Pump Rebates (income-based)
Estimated benefit: Air source heat pump up to $16,000; air to water heat pump up to $16,000; ground source heat pump up to $25,000.
Timing: Qualifying heat pump equipment must be purchased and installed by December 31, 2026. Rebate form and supporting documentation must be received by February 28, 2027 for heat pump installations.
“Air Source Heat Pump | Whole-Home / Partial-Home | Up to $16,000; Ground Source Heat Pump | Whole-Home / Partial-Home | Up to $25,000”
Our energy expert: These are the largest published residential heat pump rebates in Massachusetts, and two eligibility rules decide whether you can reach them: the program runs through four electric Sponsors rather than all six, and natural gas is not a qualifying pre-existing fuel, so a gas-heated home is outside it even if the household qualifies on income. Ground source pays substantially more than air source or air-to-water at this tier. Equipment has to be purchased and installed by 31 December 2026 with documentation in by 28 February 2027. Get the income screening done first — the entire difference between this and the standard rebate turns on it.
Designated Equity Communities (DEC)
Estimated benefit: 100% off insulation and air sealing, with no income verification.
Timing: These enhanced offers are part of the 2025-2027 Energy Efficiency and Decarbonization Plan.
“If your home is in a Designated Equity Community (DEC), you qualify for 100% off weatherization upgrades, including insulation and air sealing, when recommended by an Energy Specialist during a Home Energy Assessment.”
Our energy expert: This one is geography rather than income: if your address is in a Designated Equity Community, insulation and air sealing are covered in full with no income verification at all. That makes it the simplest route to fully funded weatherization in Massachusetts, and it is worth checking your address against the list before you assume you will be paying a share. The coverage is for insulation and air sealing, not equipment, so a heat pump remains a separate conversation. Check the community list, then book the home energy assessment — the coverage applies to what the assessment recommends.
Residential New Construction (1-4 units)
Estimated benefit: Base tier: single family $7,500, 2-unit $8,750, 3-unit $10,000, 4-unit $11,250. ENERGY STAR tier: $15,000 / $17,500 / $20,000 / $22,500. Passive House tier: $25,000 / $30,000 / $35,000 / $40,000.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26. Fossil-fuel new construction incentives were discontinued: as of July 1, 2024, new project registrations must meet the program's new electrification requirements to qualify for incentives.
“Base tier — Single Fam: $7,500 / 2-unit: $8,750 / 3-unit: $10,000 / 4-unit: $11,250”
Our energy expert: Three tiers, and the spread between them is wide enough to change the design brief rather than just the budget — base, ENERGY STAR and Passive House are not incremental steps. Unit count moves the number too, so a four-unit building earns more than a single-family at the same tier. The all-electric requirement is absolute and includes cooking and clothes drying; since mid-2024 new project registrations have had to meet it to qualify at all, which means one gas appliance can forfeit the whole incentive. Bring an energy professional in at the same time as the architect — the tier is decided at design, not at inspection.
Cape Light Compact JPE 10 programs
Income Qualified Programs
Estimated benefit: Up to 100% off recommended insulation and air sealing, pre-weatherization barrier mitigation, pre-electrification barrier mitigation and whole-home heat pump installations. Separately, an electric discount rate which reduces your total electric bill by 42%.
Timing: The published income table is scoped October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026.
“which reduces your total electric bill by 42%”
Our energy expert: If you qualify on income here the Compact covers the work rather than discounting it — insulation, air sealing, the barriers that have to come out before either can happen, and a whole-home heat pump. The 42% electric discount rate is the part people overlook, because it keeps paying every month long after the install is finished. One thing to settle before you plan around any of it: the income table the Compact published ran only to 30 September 2026, so ask the Compact for the current limits rather than working from last season's. Start with the assessment — eligibility is determined off it, not off the application form.
Insulation (residential Insulation & Air Sealing)
Estimated benefit: - Year-round Renter Incentive: Insulation "100%" / Air Sealing "100%" — timeframe "1/1/26-12/31/26" - Income Qualified: "100%" / "100%" — "1/1/26-12/31/26" - Oak Bluffs and Tisbury Residents: "100%" / "100%" — "1/1/2026 - 12/31/2026" - Standard Incentive: "75%" / "100%" — timeframe "See terms and conditions" Page headline: "offering incentives of no-cost air sealing to you and up to 75-100% off any insulation work!"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim table — - Year-round Renter Incentive: Insulation "100%" / Air Sealing "100%" — timeframe "1/1/26-12/31/26" - Income Qualified: "100%" / "100%" — "1/1/26-12/31/26" - Oak Bluffs and Tisbury Residents: "100%" / "100%" — "1/1/2026 - 12/31/2026" - Standard Incentive: "75%" / "100%" — timeframe "See terms and conditions" Page headline: "offering incentives of no-cost air sealing to you and up to 75-100% off any insulation work!"”
Our energy expert: What you pay for insulation here depends on which of four buckets you land in — year-round renter, income-qualified, Oak Bluffs or Tisbury resident, or standard — and air sealing comes at no cost in every one of them. The standard tier is where most owner-occupants land, and it does not cover the whole job, so plan for a share of the insulation cost. The 2026 terms run on calendar-year dates, which means a project straddling New Year's can be priced under two different schedules. Get the home energy assessment first; the incentive only pays for measures it recommends.
Barrier Mitigation (tab on the residential Insulation page)
Estimated benefit: - Market Rate: "No Incentive" (note: "Barrier Mitigation work may be financed with the HEAT Loan") - Market Rate Renter: "up to $5,000" (note: "2-4 unit renter occupied buildings. Contingent on landlord approval") - Enhanced Residential: "up to $7,000" - Income Eligible: "100%"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim table — - Market Rate: "No Incentive" (note: "Barrier Mitigation work may be financed with the HEAT Loan") - Market Rate Renter: "up to $5,000" (note: "2-4 unit renter occupied buildings. Contingent on landlord approval") - Enhanced Residential: "up to $7,000" - Income Eligible: "100%"”
Our energy expert: Knob-and-tube wiring, vermiculite and similar obstructions have to come out before insulation can go in, and this is the money that deals with them — but what you get turns entirely on your tier. A market-rate owner-occupant gets no cash here at all and is pointed at financing instead; renters in 2-4 unit buildings and enhanced-tier households get a capped amount; income-eligible households get the work covered. Renter coverage is contingent on the landlord signing off, so settle that before anything is scheduled. Ask your assessment contractor to name the barriers explicitly in the write-up — if they are not named, they are not funded.
Heat Pumps (Air Source / Air to Water / Ground Source)
Estimated benefit: Air Source Heat Pumps, Whole-Home: Rebate "$2,650/ton* up to $8,500**"; Enhanced (Moderate Income) "$16,000 per home***"; Income Eligible "100% of total install cost***" Air Source Heat Pumps, Partial-Home: "$1,125 per ton*, up to $8,500**"; Enhanced "$16,000 per home***"; Income Eligible "100% of total install cost***" Air Source Heat Pumps, Basic Rebate: "$250/ton"; Enhanced "N/A"; Income Eligible "N/A" Air to Water Heat Pumps (whole-home): "$2,650/ton up to $8,500"; Enhanced "$16,000 per home" Ground Source Heat Pumps, Whole-Home: "$13,500 per home*"; Enhanced "$25,000 per home" Ground Source Heat Pumps, Partial-Home: "$2,000 per ton1, up to $15,000"; Enhanced "$25,000 per home" Integrated Control add-on: "can receive up to $1,500 when they add them to their systems"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim tables — Air Source Heat Pumps, Whole-Home: Rebate "$2,650/ton* up to $8,500**"; Enhanced (Moderate Income) "$16,000 per home***"; Income Eligible "100% of total install cost***" Air Source Heat Pumps, Partial-Home: "$1,125 per ton*, up to $8,500**"; Enhanced "$16,000 per home***"; Income Eligible "100% of total install cost***" Air Source Heat Pumps, Basic Rebate: "$250/ton"; Enhanced "N/A"; Income Eligible "N/A" Air to Water Heat Pumps (whole-home): "$2,650/ton up to $8,500"; Enhanced "$16,000 per home" Ground Source Heat Pumps, Whole-Home: "$13,500 per home*"; Enhanced "$25,000 per home" Ground Source Heat Pumps, Partial-Home: "$2,000 per ton1, up to $15,000"; Enhanced "$25,000 per home" Integrated Control add-on: "can receive up to $1,500 when they add them to their systems"”
Our energy expert: Whether your project counts as whole-home or partial-home is the single fact that decides the money, and it is set by what the heat pumps replace and how much of the house they serve — not by the equipment brand. Ground source works on a different mechanism again, a flat per-home amount for whole-home and a per-ton rate for partial, so the two are not comparable line for line. All of it is capped, and the caps bite on larger systems: past a certain tonnage the extra capacity earns nothing. Have an HVAC professional run a Manual J and tell you which tier the design lands in before you sign for equipment.
Water Heating (Heat Pump Water Heater Rebates)
Estimated benefit: "Heat Pump Water Heater | ENERGY STAR® certified UEF 3.30 | $750 per unit" "Heat Pump Water Heater (120volt/15amp circuit) | ENERGY STAR® certified UEF 2.20 | $750 per unit" "Split-System Heat Pump Water Heater | ENERGY STAR® certified UEF 2.20 | $1,500 per unit"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim table — "Heat Pump Water Heater | ENERGY STAR® certified UEF 3.30 | $750 per unit" "Heat Pump Water Heater (120volt/15amp circuit) | ENERGY STAR® certified UEF 2.20 | $750 per unit" "Split-System Heat Pump Water Heater | ENERGY STAR® certified UEF 2.20 | $1,500 per unit"”
Our energy expert: The split-system heat pump water heater pays double what a standard unit does, and that is the decision most homeowners never get told about — the installed cost difference is usually smaller than the rebate gap. Eligibility runs on a UEF threshold that differs by unit type, including a lower bar for 120-volt plug-in models, so the spec sheet matters more than the model name. Amounts and thresholds here move with the program year, so confirm the current figure against the Compact's live rebate table before you buy. A licensed plumber who installs these regularly will know which models clear the threshold.
Enroll My Battery – ConnectedSolutions (residential battery storage)
Estimated benefit: "Incentive per average kW discharge ($/kW season) | $275" under a column header reading "2025 Season | Summer"; "Season Dates | June 1 – September 30"; "Number of events | 30 – 60"; "Event Duration | 3 hours maximum"; "Event timing | 3 p.m. – 8 p.m." Plus: "Customers will have the above summer incentive rates locked in for the first five summers of participation."
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim — "Incentive per average kW discharge ($/kW season) | $275" under a column header reading "2025 Season | Summer"; "Season Dates | June 1 – September 30"; "Number of events | 30 – 60"; "Event Duration | 3 hours maximum"; "Event timing | 3 p.m. – 8 p.m." Plus: "Customers will have the above summer incentive rates locked in for the first five summers of participation."”
Our energy expert: If you already have battery storage or are planning it, this pays per average kilowatt discharged during summer events — and the published summer rate is locked for your first five summers of participation, which is unusual and is the part worth protecting. The obligations are real: events run June through September, late afternoon into evening, up to several dozen times a season and three hours at a time. Sizing a battery for the payment and sizing it for your own backup are different jobs, and optimising for one compromises the other. Work the capacity decision through with your installer before you order.
Lawn Equipment (residential battery-powered)
Estimated benefit: "Lawn Mower | $75"; "Leaf Blower | $30"; "String Trimmer | $30"; "Chainsaw | $30". Headline: "get a $30-75 rebate!"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim table — "Lawn Mower | $75"; "Leaf Blower | $30"; "String Trimmer | $30"; "Chainsaw | $30". Headline: "get a $30-75 rebate!"”
Our energy expert: Battery lawn equipment rebates are small, and the reason to take them is that they are easy — point-of-purchase paperwork, no inspection, no contractor. The rebate attaches to the tool type rather than the price, so a modest mower earns the same as an expensive one and the incentive matters most at the cheaper end. Amounts and eligible categories are refreshed on the Compact's current rebate page, so check them the week you buy rather than relying on last season's list. If you run a landscaping business, look at the commercial professional-grade schedule instead — it pays far more.
Renter and Landlord Programs
Estimated benefit: "A proposal for 100% off on insulation upgrades"; "Up to $5,000 for weatherization barrier mitigation, including knob and tube wiring and vermiculite. Offer valid for renter-occupied units in buildings with 2-4 units only. Single-family rentals and owner-occupied units do not qualify."
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim — "A proposal for 100% off on insulation upgrades"; "Up to $5,000 for weatherization barrier mitigation, including knob and tube wiring and vermiculite. Offer valid for renter-occupied units in buildings with 2-4 units only. Single-family rentals and owner-occupied units do not qualify."”
Our energy expert: Renters get the best insulation terms the Compact publishes — the work covered rather than discounted — and the catch is that it is not your decision alone, because the landlord has to approve access and the measures. Barrier mitigation money here is restricted to renter-occupied units in 2-4 unit buildings; single-family rentals and owner-occupied units are excluded by name, which rules out a lot of people who assume they qualify. Get the assessment booked in your own name and bring the recommendations to your landlord as a document rather than a conversation. A Mass Save contractor can walk the landlord through what the building gets out of it.
Residential New Construction, Renovations & Additions
Estimated benefit: "We are offering incentives up to $40,000"; single-family (1-4 unit) tier table: Base: "Single Fam: $7,500 / 2-unit: $8,750 / 3-unit: $10,000 / 4-unit: $11,250" ENERGY STAR: "Single Fam: $15,000 / 2-unit: $17,500 / 3-unit: $20,000 / 4-unit: $22,500" Passive House: "Single Fam: $25,000 / 2-unit: $30,000 / 3-unit: $35,000 / 4-unit: $40,000" Market Transformation Adders: "Wi-Fi Connected Thermostat (Base tier only): $100/unit; Induction Cooktop: $250/unit; Split-System Heat Pump Water Heater: $750/unit; ENERGY STAR v3.2 certification (Base tier only): $250/unit; DOE Zero Ready certification (Base and ENERGY STAR tier): $500/unit; ENERGY STAR Certified Ground-Source Heat Pump: $9,000/unit"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim — "We are offering incentives up to $40,000"; single-family (1-4 unit) tier table: Base: "Single Fam: $7,500 / 2-unit: $8,750 / 3-unit: $10,000 / 4-unit: $11,250" ENERGY STAR: "Single Fam: $15,000 / 2-unit: $17,500 / 3-unit: $20,000 / 4-unit: $22,500" Passive House: "Single Fam: $25,000 / 2-unit: $30,000 / 3-unit: $35,000 / 4-unit: $40,000" Market Transformation Adders: "Wi-Fi Connected Thermostat (Base tier only): $100/unit; Induction Cooktop: $250/unit; Split-System Heat Pump Water Heater: $750/unit; ENERGY STAR v3.2 certification (Base tier only): $250/unit; DOE Zero Ready certification (Base and ENERGY STAR tier): $500/unit; ENERGY STAR Certified Ground-Source Heat Pump: $9,000/unit"”
Our energy expert: New construction is tiered on how the finished building performs, and the gap between tiers is wide enough to change the design brief — base, ENERGY STAR and Passive House are not small increments apart. Unit count moves the number too, so a two- or three-family earns more than a single-family at the same tier. The adders for induction, split-system water heating and a ground-source system are claimed per unit on top of the tier, but some are restricted to the base tier only, so read the footnotes before you bank on them. Bring an energy professional in at the same time as the architect; once the framing is up the cheap options are gone.
Community Based Offer (Oak Bluffs and Tisbury)
Estimated benefit: Standard: "100% off all recommended weatherization measures identified during a Home Energy Assessment." Moderate income (61-80% SMI/AMI): "turnkey services and up to 100% cost coverage for: Remediation of pre-weatherization barriers; Remediation of electrification barriers; Whole-home heat pump installation" Renters (50%+ year-round units): "Up to 100% off barrier remediation; Up to 100% off weatherization; Up to 100% off heat pump installations" Condos (50%+ year-round rental units): "Up to $2,650/ton heat pump incentive" Turnkey condition: "If you prefer to work with your own qualified Mass SAVE Contractor, you are still eligible to receive the standard moderate-income whole-home rebate of $16k"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim — Standard: "100% off all recommended weatherization measures identified during a Home Energy Assessment." Moderate income (61-80% SMI/AMI): "turnkey services and up to 100% cost coverage for: Remediation of pre-weatherization barriers; Remediation of electrification barriers; Whole-home heat pump installation" Renters (50%+ year-round units): "Up to 100% off barrier remediation; Up to 100% off weatherization; Up to 100% off heat pump installations" Condos (50%+ year-round rental units): "Up to $2,650/ton heat pump incentive" Turnkey condition: "If you prefer to work with your own qualified Mass SAVE Contractor, you are still eligible to receive the standard moderate-income whole-home rebate of $16k"”
Our energy expert: This is geography, not income: if your home is in Oak Bluffs or Tisbury the standard tier already covers the weatherization an assessment recommends, which is better than what the same house gets a few miles away. Moderate-income households, renters and qualifying condo buildings go further still, into barrier removal and heat pump installation. The turnkey route uses the Compact's own contractor; if you would rather use your own Mass Save contractor you keep a whole-home rebate instead, so the choice is between coverage and control. Ask which contractors are available on the turnkey list before you decide.
NextZero (MMWEC) — 23 municipal light plants 8 programs
NextZero Appliance Rebates
Estimated benefit: ENERGY STAR air purifier $40; all-in-one washer and dryer $75; clothes washer $50; electric clothes dryer $50; dehumidifier $30; heat pump dryer $500; heat pump water heater $500; room air conditioner $40; variable speed pool pump $100; heat pump pool heater $250; refrigerator $50; Wi-Fi thermostat 50% up to $125; mini-split HVAC control 50% up to $125; 4-burner induction range replacing gas or propane $500; 4-burner induction range replacing electric $100; all-in-one washer and heat pump dryer $500.
Timing: Qualified appliances must be purchased between 1/1/2026 and 12/31/2026. Applications must be submitted online or postmarked by 1/31/2027.
“ENERGY STAR Heat Pump Water Heater (Electric) | $500”
Our energy expert: These amounts are identical across all 23 NextZero light departments, so what varies is which programs your town runs, not what they pay — check availability for your town rather than the rate. The dividing line worth knowing is on ranges: an induction range replacing gas or propane pays five times what one replacing electric pays, and heat pump dryers and water heaters sit at the top of the list. Purchases have to fall inside the 2026 calendar year with applications in by 31 January 2027, and two towns deviate from the common list by a line item. Confirm your town's availability with NextZero before you buy, not after.
NextZero Heat Pump Rebates
Estimated benefit: Air source heat pump including mini-splits $500 per ton; ground source heat pump $750 per ton.
Timing: Must be purchased between 1/1/2026 and 12/31/2026. Applications must be submitted online or postmarked by 1/31/2027.
“Air Source Heat Pump (Including Mini-Splits) | SEER2 ≥15.2 | HSPF2 ≥8.1 | COP ≥1.75 @ 5°F | $500/ton. Ground Source Heat Pump | EER2 ≥19.2 | COP ≥3.5 | $750/ton”
Our energy expert: The three-ton annual cap is the whole story here: at the published per-ton rate that puts the practical maximum well below what Mass Save pays a household in a neighboring town, and a larger system earns nothing extra. Ground source pays half again more per ton than air source within that same cap. Because these are municipal light plants, their customers are outside Mass Save entirely, so this is not a supplement to a statewide rebate — it is the offer. Equipment has to be bought inside the calendar year with the application in by the end of January, so size the system for the house and treat the rebate as a contribution.
NextZero Weatherization Rebates
Estimated benefit: Blower door test and air sealing, insulation, and duct sealing each at 50% of purchase price up to a maximum rebate of $750.
Timing: Eligible measures must be installed between 1/1/2026 and 12/31/2026. Applications must be submitted online or postmarked by 1/31/2027.
“Blower Door Test & Air Sealing | 50% of purchase price up to a maximum rebate of $750”
Our energy expert: Air sealing, insulation and duct sealing are each paid at half the purchase price up to a per-measure ceiling, which means a whole-house job is three claims rather than one and your own share is roughly half throughout. Some towns overlay their own annual cap on top of this design, so the NextZero figure is a ceiling per measure and not necessarily the only limit that applies to you. Work has to be installed inside the calendar year with applications in by the end of January. Confirm your town's current per-measure maximum and any local cap before the contractor starts.
NextZero Residential Battery Rebate
Estimated benefit: $100 per kWh of rated storage capacity.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Residential Behind-the-Meter Battery System | $100/kWh”
Our energy expert: The brand restriction is the gate on this one and it is narrow — three manufacturers only — so the rebate is effectively a choice of equipment rather than a discount on whatever you were going to buy. The payment is per kilowatt-hour of rated capacity, which means it scales with the battery rather than with the installation cost. Confirm the eligible manufacturer list and the current per-kWh amount with NextZero before you sign a quote, because an otherwise good battery outside that list earns nothing. If you are also looking at the monthly demand response credit, ask whether your model qualifies for both.
NextZero EV Charger Program
Estimated benefit: Fully electric vehicle: free, up to $600. Plug-in hybrid over 15 kWh battery: $300. Plug-in hybrid under 15 kWh: $200. Curtailment via telematics: $200.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Fully Electric Vehicle | Free (Up to $600)”
Our energy expert: What you get here depends on the vehicle, not the charger: a fully electric car earns the most, a plug-in hybrid less, and a hybrid with a smaller battery less again, with a separate payment for allowing curtailment through the car's telematics. Be careful with the top figure — NextZero's own page states two different maximums for a fully electric vehicle, one in its prose and one in its table, so get the amount that applies to you confirmed in writing before you buy. The curtailment payment is a separate decision and it means letting the utility influence when you charge. Ask your light department to confirm the current amount and whether curtailment is required or optional in your town.
NextZero Connected Homes (monthly bill credits)
Estimated benefit: Monthly incentives: battery $30; electric vehicle $10; EV charger $10; electric hot water heater $5; mini-split controller $5; Wi-Fi thermostat $5.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Battery | Duracell / Emporia / Tesla Powerwall | $30”
Our energy expert: This pays monthly rather than once, which makes it the only NextZero offering whose value depends on how long you stay enrolled — a battery earns the most per month and a thermostat the least. For customers in Belmont and Concord it is worth knowing this is the one NextZero program their town runs, so the answer to what does my town offer is different there than in the rest of the group. Enrollment means letting the utility adjust equipment during peaks, which is a comfort decision as much as a financial one. Confirm the current monthly amounts and the enrolled device list with your light department before you commit to hardware.
NextZero Solar Rebate (Wakefield and Ipswich only)
Estimated benefit: $0.80 per watt, capped at 50 percent of total installed costs.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“solar rebates of $0.80/watt, capped at 50 percent of total installed costs”
Our energy expert: This rebate exists in two towns only — Wakefield and Ipswich — so for the other NextZero light departments solar is a different conversation entirely, and anyone quoting it as a NextZero-wide program has it wrong. Where it does apply it pays per watt, capped at half the total installed cost, which ties the ceiling to what you spend rather than to system size. Municipal interconnection and net metering terms are set by your own light department and are not the statewide ones, so the rebate is only part of the economics. Have a solar professional confirm both the rebate availability and the interconnection terms with your light department before you sign.
NextZero Home Energy Audits
Estimated benefit: A no cost, no obligation home energy audit.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“A no cost, no obligation home energy audit”
Our energy expert: A no-cost, no-obligation audit is the right first step in any NextZero town, and in several of them it is the prerequisite the larger rebates sit behind rather than an optional extra. It tells you which of the town's programs actually apply to your house, which matters because availability varies town by town across the 23 light departments. What it is not is an engineering study — it finds the obvious losses, it does not design a system. Book it before you take a contractor quote, so the quote can be priced against the recommendations.
Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD) 5 programs
Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD) Heat Pump Rebate or 0% Interest Loan
Estimated benefit: New heat pump up to $11,500; replacement heat pump up to $7,500; plus weatherization up to $3,500 excluding tax. A separate 0% loan of up to $40,000 is also offered.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26. RMLD reserves the right to modify or terminate RMLD Rebate Programs without prior notice based on the availability of funds and other relevant factors.
“New Heat Pump: Up to $11,500 / Replacement Heat Pump: Up to $7,500 / Loan: Up to $40,000 zero-interest / Plus Weatherization: Up to $3,500 (excluding tax)”
Our energy expert: Reading's heat pump rebate is the largest residential one found anywhere in Massachusetts and it beats the statewide Mass Save ceiling outright — which matters because Reading is a municipal light plant and its customers are outside Mass Save, so this is not a top-up, it is the whole offer. The fork that decides your number is whether the system is new or a replacement, and the replacement tier is substantially lower. Weatherization money is separate and quoted excluding tax, and RMLD states it can modify or end these programs without notice as funding allows. There is also a 0% loan to cover what the rebate does not — treat that as debt rather than a second rebate, and talk to RMLD before you contract.
Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD) Electric Panel Upgrade Rebate
Estimated benefit: $500.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Electric Panel Upgrade Rebate | Who is eligible: RMLD customers who upgrade their panel to a higher amperage. | $500”
Our energy expert: A panel upgrade is the most common thing that quietly stops a home electrification project, and Reading pays a flat rebate for it as a standalone measure, which almost no other administrator does. Because it stands alone you can claim it without committing to the heat pump or charger it is making room for, which is useful if you are phasing work over several years. It is a fixed amount rather than a share of cost, so on a large service upgrade it is a contribution, not a solution. Have your electrician confirm the scope qualifies before the work is scheduled.
Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD) Electric Vehicle Charger Rebate
Estimated benefit: Up to $750.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Electric Vehicle Charger Rebate | Who is eligible: RMLD customers who purchase an EV charger that is installed at their residence within RMLD's service territory. | Up to $750”
Our energy expert: Reading's charger rebate carries no curtailment or scheduled-charging obligation, which is unusual — most municipal charger money in Massachusetts is paid in exchange for letting the utility manage when you charge. If you want the hardware subsidised without signing up to that control, this is the cleaner deal. It is an up-to amount, so what share of your installed cost it covers depends on what the electrical work runs to. Confirm the eligible charger list with RMLD before purchase; that is where these applications usually fail.
Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD) ENERGY STAR Certified Appliance Rebate
Estimated benefit: $50 - $125 per appliance.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“ENERGY STAR Certified Appliance Rebate | Eligible Appliances include EnergyStar-certified electric snowblowers, EnergyStar-certified electric ranges, and EnergyStar-certified wireless thermostats. | $50 - $125 per appliance”
Our energy expert: The published range here is wide but the eligible list is short — three item types — so treating this as a general appliance rebate promises more than the program delivers. Which item earns which end of the range is set by RMLD's current list rather than by price, so ask for the per-item amount instead of planning on the top figure. This is small money and it should not be the reason you choose one model over another. Confirm the item and the amount with RMLD at the point of purchase.
Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD) Load Management Device Rebate
Estimated benefit: Up to 100% of the total equipment costs, maximum incentive $1,200.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Up to 100% of the total equipment costs. Maximum incentive: $1,200”
Our energy expert: Covering up to the full equipment cost is unusual and is the reason to look at this seriously: a load management device can be effectively free up to the capped amount rather than partly subsidised. What it buys you is control over when large loads run, which matters most if you are adding a heat pump or a charger to a service that is already tight. The cap is firm, so on a larger control package you are back to paying the balance. Ask RMLD which devices qualify before you buy — the eligible list is the whole constraint here.
Holyoke Gas & Electric (HG&E) 3 programs
Holyoke Gas & Electric (HG&E) Residential Appliance Rebates
Estimated benefit: Dishwasher $25; room air conditioner $25; dehumidifier 25% up to $30; air purifier 25% up to $40; variable-speed pool pump $100; refrigerator $50 ENERGY STAR or $75 Most Efficient; clothes washer $50; electric clothes dryer $50-$350; combi washer/dryer $100-$400; solar hot water heater $150-$300; heat pump water heater $300-$750; thermostat 50% up to $50, or 50% up to $125 if enrolled in Connected Homes; electric stove $50-$300.
Timing: Qualified equipment and services must be purchased within the given program year and applications must be submitted by March 31st of the following year.
“Heat Pump Hot Water Heater (Electric): $300 Rebate (If New or Replacing Electric), $600 Rebate (If Replacing Gas Water Heater), $750 Rebate (If Replacing Oil or Propane Water Heater)”
Our energy expert: Holyoke tiers its appliance rebates by what the new equipment replaces, so the same dryer or stove pays three different amounts depending on whether you are coming off gas, oil or electric — no other administrator in this state does that, and it means there is no single answer to what a heat pump water heater pays here. There is also an explicit landlord provision allowing several units a year, which is rare enough to be worth a landlord's time. Thresholds and amounts are revised each program year and applications are due by 31 March of the following year. Confirm your replacement fuel and the current tier with HG&E before you buy, because the fuel you are leaving is what sets the number.
Holyoke Gas & Electric (HG&E) Heat Pump and Whole-Home Programs
Estimated benefit: Basic heat pump and mini-split $250 per ton up to $1,000; whole-home air source or ground source $600-$750 per ton with a 75% weatherization rebate; central air conditioner up to $500.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Higher rebate of $600-$750/ton available for customers converting from gas, oil or propane to qualifying mini-splits and heat pumps that are sized to provide 100% of the home's heating needs. Higher weatherization rebate of 75% of cost available as well.”
Our energy expert: Holyoke runs a basic tier and a whole-home tier, and the whole-home one pays more per ton and brings a weatherization rebate with it — so how much of the house the system serves decides the money, not the equipment. Because Holyoke is a municipal, its customers are outside Mass Save on the electric side, which makes this schedule the whole offer rather than a supplement to a statewide rebate. HG&E reorganised these pages recently, so read the per-ton figures off the current heat pump page rather than an older link. Get the audit done first and have your installer confirm the live rate before ordering equipment.
Holyoke Gas & Electric (HG&E) Tesla Powerwall Demand Response, EV Charger and Connected Homes
Estimated benefit: Powerwall $1,000 rebate plus $8/kW monthly based on dispatch; EV charger rebate up to $250-$450 for a Level 2 charger plus $5-$10/month; Connected Homes ongoing $5-$30/month.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Receive a $1,000 rebate for your Tesla Powerwall and monthly incentive of $8/kW based on the amount of electricity your battery dispatches onto the grid during electric peaks”
Our energy expert: The recurring payments are the real money in these three programs, not the one-off rebate: a Powerwall earns a monthly amount per kilowatt it actually dispatches during peaks, and the charger and Connected Homes offers pay every month for letting HG&E shift when you use power. That means the value depends on your behavior over years rather than on a single purchase. The trade is control — you are agreeing to peak-time restrictions, and if you cannot live with them the monthly money stops. Ask HG&E what a typical dispatch season looks like before you size a battery around it.
Westfield Gas + Electric (WG+E) 3 programs
Westfield Gas + Electric (WG+E) Electric Heating and Cooling Rebates
Estimated benefit: Mini-split: rebates range from $1,125 for 0.75 ton up to $6,000 for 4 tons. Central air conditioning $750. Ductless or ducted mini-split heat pump 50% up to $6,000 plus a $1,000 credit for whole home oil or propane conversion. Ground source heat pump 50% up to $6,000.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26. Program terms and conditions are subject to change or cancellation without notice.
“Ductless Mini-Split requires SEER2 of 15.2 or higher, HSPF2 of 8.5 or higher, COP of 1.75 or higher at 5°F at max capacity, rebate is 50% up to $6,000 plus $1,000 credit for whole home oil or propane conversion.”
Our energy expert: Westfield pays on a percentage-of-cost basis with a ceiling on mini-splits and ground source alike, and the extra credit for converting a whole house off oil or propane is where the number actually moves — the fuel you leave matters as much as the equipment you install. Rebates scale with tonnage up to the cap, so a small system earns a fraction of the headline figure. Westfield publishes these tables as images, so confirm the figure for your exact tonnage with WG+E directly rather than from a reproduction. The terms can change or be withdrawn without notice, which is another reason to confirm before you contract.
Westfield Gas + Electric (WG+E) Natural Gas Heating and Water Heating Rebates
Estimated benefit: Space heating furnace 95% AFUE or greater with ECM up to 150 MBH $1,000; 97% AFUE or greater $1,500. Hydronic boiler 90% AFUE or greater up to 300 MBH $1,000; 95% AFUE or greater $2,000. Integrated water heater and condensing boiler 95% AFUE or greater up to 300 MBH $3,000. Water heater attached to natural gas boiler $400; ENERGY STAR labeled with energy factor 0.67 $100; tankless with energy factor 0.94 $500; heat pump water heater ENERGY STAR certified $750.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Integrated Water Heater and Condensing Boiler... 95% AFUE or greater up to 300 MBH: $3,000”
Our energy expert: Westfield still pays rebates on high-efficiency natural gas heating equipment, including for switching to gas — the statewide Mass Save program stopped doing that under the 2021 Climate Act, and municipal light plants are not bound by it. That is a genuine municipal exception rather than Massachusetts policy, and it exists only because Westfield runs its own gas and electric utility. The rebate turns on an AFUE threshold with a second, higher tier above it, so the efficiency rating on the nameplate decides which amount you get. Confirm the current amounts and thresholds with WG+E before you buy, and ask what the same money looks like on the heat pump side before you commit to gas for another twenty years.
Westfield Gas + Electric (WG+E) Appliance and Weatherization Rebates
Estimated benefit: Appliances $50 each — air purifier, clothes washer, dehumidifier, dishwasher, freezer 12 cubic feet or larger, refrigerator 12 cubic feet or larger, room AC. Heat pump clothes dryer $200. Weatherization: 50% up to $1,000 for combined insulation, air sealing and blower door test.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Energy Efficiency Measures include; Insulation, Air Sealing, and Blower Door Test with Rebates at; 50% up to $1,000 for combined weatherization work.”
Our energy expert: The appliance side here is unusually simple — a flat amount for every qualifying item regardless of type — which makes it easy to plan and easy to check. Weatherization is the more valuable half, and it runs as a share-of-cost rebate covering insulation, air sealing and the blower door test together under a single ceiling, so doing all three in one year draws from one pot rather than three. Heat pump dryers pay more than the flat appliance rate and are the one item worth singling out. Confirm the current figures with WG+E before you buy — these tables are published as images and should be read at the source.
Braintree Electric Light Department (BELD) 2 programs
Braintree Electric Light Department (BELD) — Appliance/Lighting Rebates, Energy Smart Home and Solar
Estimated benefit: Appliance and lighting (2026 form): ENERGY STAR refrigerator 6.0+ cu ft $75; clothes washer $50; electric clothes dryer $50; window room air conditioner $50; heat pump water heater (HEHWH) $250; smart thermostat $100; induction cooktop $250; LED light bulbs 50% up to $150; LED light fixtures 25% up to $150; battery lawn mower $75; battery snow blower $75; battery leaf blower $30; battery string trimmer $30; battery chainsaw $30. Energy Smart Home: 50% of the total job cost including materials and labor, or $1,000, whichever is less, limit one rebate per customer per calendar year. Solar: $0.60 per watt DC, capped at 10 kW DC.
Timing: No end date found. BELD states "BELD reserves the right to change any portion of this program, or end this program, at any time without notice. Rebates are limited based on annual budget." Energy Smart Home is limited to one rebate per customer per calendar year.
“"ENERGY STAR refrigerator $75 (6.0+ Cu.Ft) / ENERGY STAR clothes washer $50 / ENERGY STAR HEHWH $250 / ENERGY STAR Smart Thermostat $100 / Induction Cooktops $250 / LED Light bulbs 50% up-to $150" — BELD Appliance/Lighting Rebates form, revision R2026, p. 1. "50% of the total job cost, including materials and labor, or $1000—whichever is less." — BELD Energy Smart Home form, R2026, p. 1. "Braintree Electric Light Department (BELD) $0.60/watt DC, 10 kW DC" — ENE Solar Rebates programme table, ene.org/sustainability/rebates/solar/, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Braintree publishes its current-year amounts in three separate places — a dated appliance and lighting rebate form, a dated weatherization form, both linked from its Energy Savings page, and its solar rate in Energy New England's program table — so it is easy to find one and miss the others. Two conditions catch people: the weatherization rebate requires a BELD energy audit first and only covers measures that audit recommended, and the programmable thermostat rebate is restricted to homes with oil heat or central air. LED bulbs and fixtures pay a share of cost rather than a flat amount, and the share differs between the two. BELD states it can change or end any of this at any time against an annual budget, so confirm the current form before you buy.
Braintree Electric Light Department (BELD) — Energy Smart Home weatherization rebate
Estimated benefit: 50% of the total job cost including materials and labor, or $1,000, whichever is less. Limit one rebate per customer per calendar year.
Timing: No end date found. "BELD reserves the right to change any portion of this program, or end this program, at any time without notice. Rebates are limited based on annual budget."
“"Complete any of the qualifying work, and we'll pay for half of it—up to $1000!" and "How much is the rebate? 50% of the total job cost, including materials and labor, or $1000—whichever is less. Please allow 4-6 weeks for processing. Limit one rebate per customer per calendar year." — BELD Energy Smart Home rebate form, revision R2026, p. 1.”
Our energy expert: The audit is the gate: this rebate only covers measures that came out of a BELD energy audit through its Home Energy Advisor service, which makes the audit a prerequisite rather than a recommendation. Within that it pays half the total job cost including labor up to a capped amount, one rebate per customer per calendar year — so a large weatherization project is better split across two years than crammed into one. Homeowner self-install is allowed, which is unusual among the municipals and makes this worth considering if you are willing to do your own air sealing. Replacement doors and windows are excluded by name, so book the audit first and let its recommendations define the scope.
Energy New England (ENE) — Shared 2 programs
No-Cost Home Energy Assessment (20 municipal light plants)
Estimated benefit: No-cost in-home or virtual home energy assessment.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-28. EXCEPTION — CHESTER IS EXITING: 'As of September 1, 2026, Energy New England will no longer conduct Home Energy Assessments for CMELD.'
“ENE offers free In-Home and Virtual Energy Assessments to residential customers served by our partnering Municipal Light Plants (MLPs).”
Our energy expert: In most of these towns the free assessment is not optional — it is the gate the larger rebates sit behind, and the heat pump and weatherization money will not pay without it. It costs nothing and can be done virtually, so there is no reason to sequence it after a contractor quote. One exception to check: Chester customers are no longer served by Energy New England for assessments as of 1 September 2026, so CMELD is the right call there. Book the assessment first, then let its recommendations drive what you buy.
Energy New England — towns whose schedules are not on ene.org, and the shared solar table
Estimated benefit: ENE administers rebate programs for 23 municipal light plants, 21 of them in Massachusetts. Its shared Solar Rebate table publishes six participating MLPs and their rates: Braintree (BELD) $0.60/watt DC to 10 kW DC; Georgetown (GMLD) $0.60/watt DC to 10 kW DC; Middleborough (MGED) $0.60/watt DC to 25 kW DC residential and commercial, with 26-150 kW DC administered by MGED directly; Norwood (NMLD) $1.20/watt DC to 25 kW DC; Rowley (RMLP) $0.60/watt DC to 10 kW DC, a $6,000 rebate; Wellesley (WMLP) $1.20/watt DC, up to 50% of project cost, residential and small commercial capped at $15,000 and large commercial at $30,000.
Timing: Wellesley's solar program is budget-limited and the budget is nearly gone: "As of 9/2/2026 there is $47,270 remaining in the budget." Every solar project requires a Rebate Reservation letter before installation and an AlsoEnergy SmartMeter with LocusNOC monitoring.
“"Braintree Electric Light Department (BELD) $0.60/watt DC 10 kW DC ... Norwood Municipal Light Department (NMLD) $1.20/watt DC 25 kW DC ... Wellesley Municipal Light Plant (WMLP) $1.20/watt DC, Residential Rebate Cap of $15,000 ... Large Commercial Rebate Cap of $30,000, Up to 50% of project cost" — ene.org/sustainability/rebates/solar/, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Energy New England administers rebates for 21 Massachusetts municipal light plants, and what it publishes centrally is the solar rate table for six of them; each member town publishes its own full schedule on its own page. The practical consequence is that the town on your electric bill, not the shared site, is the authority on what you can claim — and the schedules differ enough that neighboring towns pay twice as much for the same heat pump. The shared solar table is worth reading in one go because it puts the rate and the cap side by side, including Wellesley's budget-limited program. Find your own town's schedule first, then have your contractor price against that rather than against any statewide figure.
Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities 2 programs
Heating System Repair and Replacement Program (HEARTWAP)
Estimated benefit: Heating system repair or replacement for fuel-assistance households; spending limits apply and a co-payment is possible — confirm with your local agency.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“There are maximum allowable expenditure limits for different types of heating system activities. In some instances households may be required to provide a co-payment.”
Our energy expert: If you qualify for fuel assistance and your heating system fails, this repairs or replaces it — eligibility follows HEAP, with gross household income not exceeding 60% of the estimated state median. Two things to be straight about before work starts: spending limits apply, so ask your local agency what they are, and a customer co-payment is possible depending on what the job costs. The program serves homeowners primarily; if you rent, the sanitary code puts the heating system on your landlord and that is where to push. Call your local agency before the system fails if you can — mid-winter is the worst time to learn where the limits are.
Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP)
Estimated benefit: "An average of $4,725 in allowable energy efficiency measures is available for eligible households." Delivered as services, not as a cash payment.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“"An average of $4,725 in allowable energy efficiency measures is available for eligible households." — mass.gov Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: This buys measures rather than paying money: eligible households receive weatherization work, and the figure published is an average of what a home receives, not a cap and not an entitlement. Eligibility is a gross income ceiling at 60% of the estimated state median, with TAFDC and SSI households categorically eligible and HEAP-eligible households automatically in. Massachusetts funds this well above its federal grant by transferring the maximum allowed share of its fuel assistance award into weatherization, so the program has more capacity here than in most states. Apply through your local agency, and apply for fuel assistance at the same time — one screening covers both.
Berkshire Gas Company 1 program
Residential Energy Efficiency Programs
Estimated benefit: No-cost virtual Home Energy Assessments, plus an instant incentive of 75% toward eligible insulation upgrades, or 90% or 100% based on income.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26. Natural gas equipment rebates ended 2024-08-31.
“Instant incentive* of 75% toward the following eligible insulation upgrades or based on your income, you may be eligible for an enhanced instant incentive for 90% or 100% off”
Our energy expert: Berkshire publishes something the statewide pages leave vague: the actual income-tiered split behind the 75-to-100-percent insulation range, so you can tell in advance which share you will pay rather than finding out after the assessment. The virtual home energy assessment costs nothing and is what sets everything after it. Note that Berkshire's natural gas equipment rebates ended on 31 August 2024, so this is a weatherization and assessment offer rather than an equipment one. Confirm the current percentage tier with Berkshire before you schedule insulation work.
Energy New England (ENE) — Norwood 1 program
Norwood Municipal Light Department Rebates
Estimated benefit: Air source heat pump whole-home $3,000 per ton up to $10,000 ($16,000 income-eligible); partial-home $1,250 per ton up to $10,000 ($16,000 income-eligible). Ground source whole-home $3,000 per ton up to $15,000 ($25,000 income-eligible); partial-home $2,000 per ton up to $15,000 ($25,000 income-eligible). Weatherization: insulation $1,000 or 100% of measure cost up to $1,500 income-eligible; air sealing $500 or 100% up to $750 income-eligible; standard rebate is 50% of project cost not to exceed $1,000. Appliances: dehumidifier $75 (limit 3), clothes washer $150, refrigerator $225, electric/heat pump water heater $500; $500 maximum per account per year excluding the water heater. Lawn equipment $25-$200. Solar $1.20 per watt DC capped at 25 kW DC. EV: Level 2 charger $1,000, PHEV or BEV purchase/lease $1,500, NeoCharge Smart Splitter 50% up to $350, lifetime cap $4,500 per electric account.
Timing: Applications must be submitted to the portal or postmarked within 6 months (180 days) of purchase date/install date. The NU-EV vehicle rebate is offered 'For a limited time'; we found no end date for it.
“"Whole-Home $3,000 per ton**, up to $10,000 | $3,000 per ton, up to $16,000***" and "NMLD's solar rebate is $1.20/watt, capped at 25 kW DC" — ene.org Norwood residential rebates, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Norwood pays $3,000 per ton up to $10,000 on a whole-home air source heat pump, which beats the statewide Mass Save rate and the statewide cap outright — and because Norwood is a municipal light plant, its customers are outside Mass Save entirely, so this schedule is the whole picture rather than a top-up. Its solar rate is double what most neighboring municipal light plants pay. Watch the clock on paperwork: applications have to reach the portal or be postmarked within six months of purchase or installation, and the EV rebates carry a lifetime cap per electric account rather than resetting each year. Get the no-cost assessment done, then have your contractor confirm which tier your design lands in before equipment is ordered.
Massachusetts DOER (administered by Center for Sustainable Energy) 1 program
MOR-EV — Standard, Used, MOR-EV+ and Trade-In rebates
Estimated benefit: MOR-EV Standard (new vehicles) $3,500; MOR-EV Used $3,500; MOR-EV+ (new and used) $1,500; MOR-EV Trade-In $1,000.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26. Regulation is 225 CMR 26.00.
“Receive $3,500-$6,000 for an electric vehicle”
Our energy expert: MOR-EV is four separate rebates, not one: a standard rebate on new vehicles, one on used, an income-based MOR-EV+ addition, and a trade-in rebate for scrapping an older combustion vehicle — so your total depends on how many of the four you qualify for rather than on the headline figure. The conditions that disqualify people are the purchase price cap and a 36-month vehicle retention requirement; sell early and you can be asked to repay. The application portal sits behind a login, so the dealer is usually the practical route in. Confirm the current amounts and the price cap for your model before you sign at the dealership — these tiers have been revised more than once.
Middleborough Gas & Electric Department (MGED) 1 program
Middleborough Gas & Electric Department (MGED) Residential Rebates
Estimated benefit: EV Level 2 charger rebate $300. Air sealing, insulation and ductless heat pump rebates are published but their dollar amounts are not on the page.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“EV Level 2 Charger Rebate – $300”
Our energy expert: The EV charger rebate is the figure Middleborough posts on this page; the insulation, air sealing, heat pump and solar amounts live in MGED's own application forms, and the standard-versus-income split that applies across them is published and usable. Settle that income split first, because it doubles the answer on most measures. Middleborough supplies gas as well as electricity, and households heating with MGED gas are not eligible for Mass Save heat pump rebates — this schedule is their route. Ask MGED for the current application for your measure and confirm the amount against it before you buy.
Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant (TMLP) 1 program
TMLP Heat Pump and Zero-Interest Loan Residential Rebate
Estimated benefit: Cold climate air source heat pump, whole home and partial home, and ground source heat pump: $1,250 per ton up to $5,000 total. Low- and moderate-income customers, cold climate air source heat pump partial home: $2,250 per ton up to $9,000 total. Weatherization and air sealing if needed: 50% up to $3,000 total. Barrier mitigation if needed: 50% of cost up to $2,000 total. Zero-interest loan: pre-payment of interest on out-of-pocket heat pump costs to participating lenders on loans up to $25,000 with terms up to 7 years.
Timing: Applies to installation of Ground-Source or Cold-Climate Air-Source Heat Pumps starting on January 1, 2026.
“Cold Climate, Air Source Heat Pump: Whole Home and Partial Home Rebate/Ground Source Heat Pump $1,250/ton, up to $5,000 total”
Our energy expert: Income is the fork here: Taunton's low- and moderate-income tier pays nearly double the standard per-ton rate on a partial-home air source system, so establishing which tier you are in is the first step, not the last. The rates apply to installations starting 1 January 2026, and ground source and air source are paid at the same standard rate, which is unusual. Weatherization and barrier mitigation are separate pots at a share of cost, each with its own ceiling, and they are often what makes a heat pump work in an older house. There is also a zero-interest loan route for the out-of-pocket balance — that is debt, so price the monthly payment before you treat it as part of the incentive.
Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (WMGLD) 1 program
Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (WMGLD) Residential Rebates
Estimated benefit: Appliances $25-$500 per item; cordless yard equipment $25-$100; thermostats $25-$125 per item; insulation and weatherization $50-$2,000; heat pumps $500-$7,500; EV chargers up to $1,250; solar up to $8,000 at $0.80 per watt.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Heat Pumps: $500 – $7,500. Customers can choose from three rebate paths: 1. Heat Pump Rebate (existing) 2. Heat Pump with Insulation Bundle 3. Heat Pump Replacing Fossil Fuel System”
Our energy expert: Wakefield offers three different heat pump paths — a standard rebate, one bundled with insulation, and one for replacing fossil heat — and which you take moves the rebate across a very wide range, so the sequencing of your project decides the money. The exclusion to know about is absolute: new construction does not qualify for these rebates at all, which catches people building an addition or a replacement home. Solar is capped in dollars at a per-watt rate, so the ceiling binds before a large array does. Get the assessment first, then have your contractor price the bundled path against the standard one — they are not close.
Other administrators 13 programs
Hudson Light & Power Department Rebates — Energy New England (ENE) — Hudson
Estimated benefit: Appliances: air purifier $30, dehumidifier, window AC $50, Wi-Fi thermostat, clothes washer, electric clothes dryer, dishwasher, refrigerator, electric heat pump water heater $750. Heat pumps: air source $750/ton capped at 3 tons; ground source $1,000/ton capped at 3 tons; packaged window heat pump $300 per unit, max 2; central AC $500. Weatherization: air sealing and general insulation up to 50% of job cost, $500 combined maximum. EV: Level 2 smart charger $500, plus off-peak bill credits of $5/month Level 1 or $10/month Level 2. Lawn equipment $40-$400 including a $400 zero-turn riding mower.
Timing: Rebate applications must be submitted within 365 days of purchase date.
“Air Source Heat Pump | $750/Ton, Cap 3 Ton* | Ground Source Heat Pump | $1000/Ton, Cap 3 Ton*”
Our energy expert: Hudson caps its heat pump rebate at three tons, so the system size that maximises the rebate is smaller than what many homes actually need — know the ceiling before you let tonnage drive the quote. Ground source pays more per ton than air source within that same cap. The EV side is worth a second look because it pays monthly for charging off-peak rather than only once for the hardware. Amounts here are refreshed on Hudson's own page each year, so confirm the figure for your specific measure before you buy, and have the assessment done first.
Danvers Electric Division Rebates — Energy New England (ENE) — Danvers
Estimated benefit: Air source heat pump $1,500 per ton (1 ton = 12,000 BTU/hr at 95F), $6,000 maximum per electric account per year. Weatherization: insulation $1,000, air sealing $500, rebate is 50% of project cost to a combined $1,500 per calendar year. Appliances: programmable thermostat $25 (limit 2), dehumidifier $25, window AC $45, Wi-Fi thermostat $50 (limit 2), refrigerator $100, in-home electric composter $100, induction stove electric-to-electric $150, induction stove gas-to-electric $300, hybrid heat pump water heater $300; $300 maximum in appliance rebates per account per calendar year. Level 2 EV charger $300; e-bike $500 capped at 50%. Lawn equipment $40-$200 per item, $500 maximum per account per year.
Timing: Applications must be submitted within 365 days of purchase or install. The weatherization program applies to projects installed after 1/1/2026.
“"$1,500/ton (1 ton = 12,000 BTUs/hr at 95F) $6,000 maximum" and "Projects installed prior to 12/31/2025 will be calculated using the 2025 DED ASHP rebate program guidance of $1000/ton" — ene.org Danvers residential rebates, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Danvers raised its air source heat pump rebate to $1,500 per ton for 2026, which means a four-ton system now reaches the $6,000 ceiling that used to take six tons. That ceiling is per electric account per calendar year, so a large project split across two trades does not earn twice. Weatherization runs on its own combined cap and only applies to work installed from 1 January 2026, and appliance rebates have a separate and much smaller annual limit — three pots, three ceilings. Confirm which year's schedule your installation date falls under before you sign anything.
Belmont Municipal Light Department Rebates — Energy New England (ENE) — Belmont
Estimated benefit: Ductless mini-split air source heat pump $1,000 per ton, maximum $5,000, plus adders: $1,000 low-income or Small Municipal Rate MB, $1,000 for removing a fossil-fuel system or installing during a gut renovation or new construction, $500 for completing a recommended weatherization project. Weatherization: insulation 75% of job cost up to $1,500, air and duct sealing 75% up to $500, $2,000 maximum per calendar year excluding adders, with a further $500 insulation and $250 sealing adder on the low-income rate. Appliances: refrigerator $100, heat pump dryer $300, dehumidifier $75, air purifier $50, room AC $25 without disposal or $100 with, induction stove gas-to-electric $500, electric-to-electric $100, portable induction cooktop $75, Wi-Fi smart thermostat $100, Aquanta water heater controller $100, Flair Puck $100, Sensibo controller $75. Lawn equipment $25-$400, $500 maximum per account per year. Level 2 EV charger $100, plus a $250 adder for enrolling in BMLD's Connected Homes demand response program.
Timing: Applications must be submitted within 180 days (6 months) of purchase or install date.
“"Ductless (Mini Splits) $1,000 per ton, maximum $5,000" and "Projects completed prior to 12/31/2025 will be calculated using the 2025 BMLD ASHP rebate values; $700/ton, WX adder not eligible." — ene.org Belmont residential rebates, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Belmont's 2026 schedule is one of the fullest in this group, which is worth saying plainly because Belmont is often described as running demand response and nothing else — that is true of the NextZero matrix, not of Belmont's own program. The heat pump rate rose to $1,000 per ton for 2026 with a $5,000 ceiling, and the adders are where the project economics actually move: low-income or small municipal rate, removing a fossil system, and now completing a recommended weatherization project each pay on top. Applications have to be in within 180 days of purchase or installation, a shorter window than several neighboring towns allow. Have the assessment done, then ask your contractor which adders your scope qualifies for before the equipment order goes in.
Middleborough Gas & Electric Department Rebates — Energy New England (ENE) — Middleborough
Estimated benefit: Air source heat pump $750 per ton up to $3,000 standard, $1,000 per ton up to $4,000 low income; multi-family to 5 units $2,000 per unit, maximum $10,000. Ducted/other $500 per ton, max $2,000 per unit, 5-unit maximum $10,000. Heat pump water heater $750 standard / $1,000 low income, not exceeding 50% of installation cost. Weatherization: air sealing 50% up to $750 standard or 100% up to $1,000 low income, air sealing maximum $2,500; whole-space insulation 50% up to $1,500 standard or 100% up to $1,750 low income, insulation maximum $5,000. Appliances have paired standard/low-income amounts: lawn equipment $25/$50 to $200/$300, dehumidifier $30/$60, air conditioner $25/$50, Wi-Fi thermostat $50/$100. Solar $0.60 per watt DC capped at 25 kW DC. Level 2 EV charger $300 standard / $400 low income. Annual heat pump maximum $3,000 standard, $4,000 low income.
Timing: Applications must be submitted or postmarked no later than January 31 of the next calendar year.
“"$750 per ton, up to $3,000 ... Multi-Family Homes are eligible up to 5 Units, $2,000 per unit, max $10,000 ... $1000 per ton, up to $4,000" and "MGED is participating in the MLP Solar program at $.60/watt, capped at 25 kW DC." — ene.org Middleborough residential rebates, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Middleborough runs a two-column schedule throughout, standard and low income, and the low-income column is typically double — so the income question is the first one to settle, not the last. Two structural facts matter here: heat pump work has to go to a contractor on MGED's Preferred Contractor List, and because MGED supplies gas as well as electricity, households heating with MGED gas are not eligible for Mass Save heat pump rebates at all, which makes this schedule their only route. There is an explicit multi-family path to five units, which few Massachusetts municipals offer at all. Applications are due by 31 January of the following year — file with the install, not in the new year.
Holden Municipal Light Department Rebates — Energy New England (ENE) — Holden
Estimated benefit: Air source heat pump $500 per ton, ground source $750 per ton, both capped at 3 tons. Weatherization: blower door test and air sealing up to 50% of job cost with a $500 maximum, general insulation up to 50% with a $500 maximum, combined maximum $1,000. Appliances: heat pump dryer $500, heat pump water heater $500, all-in-one washer and heat pump dryer $500, 4-burner induction range replacing gas or propane $500 or replacing electric $100, heat pump pool heater $250, variable-speed pool pump $100, all-in-one washer/dryer $75, clothes washer $50, clothes dryer $50, refrigerator with disposal $50, room AC with disposal $40, air purifier $40, dehumidifier $30, Wi-Fi thermostat 50% up to $125, mini-split HVAC control 50% up to $125. Lawn equipment $25-$100.
Timing: Qualified appliances must be purchased between 1/1/2026 and 12/31/2026; applications must be submitted by 1/31/2027.
“"Air Source Heat Pump $500/Ton* Cap 3 Ton / Ground Source Heat Pump $750/Ton* Cap 3 Ton" and "Qualified appliances must be purchased between 1/1/2026 and 12/31/2026" — ene.org Holden residential rebates, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Holden pays on a hard calendar window: equipment has to be purchased inside 2026 and the application in by 31 January 2027, and a purchase on either side of those dates is simply outside the program. Heat pumps are capped at three tons whether air source or ground source, so tonnage beyond that earns nothing — size for the house and treat the rebate as a contribution rather than a target. Eligibility is limited to residential customers in buildings of one to four units. Rebates of $200 or less arrive as a bill credit rather than a cheque, which is worth knowing if you were expecting a payment.
Georgetown Municipal Light Department Rebates — Energy New England (ENE) — Georgetown
Estimated benefit: Ducted air source heat pump $500 per ton, $1,000 maximum. Weatherization: air sealing 50% of total job cost to a $500 maximum, insulation on the same basis, $500 per account per year in any combination. Appliances: hybrid water heater under 55 gallons $500, air purifier $50, smart/Wi-Fi thermostat $25, dehumidifier. Lawn equipment: riding mower $200, push mower $100, chain and pole saw $40, leaf blower $30, string trimmer and hedger $25. EV off-peak charging credit $10 per month for Level 2 and $5 per month otherwise. Solar $0.60 per watt DC, capped at $10,000.
Timing: Heat pump applications due 1/15 of the following year; other measures 12/31 of the current year.
“"Ducted Air Source Heat Pump $500/Ton, $1,000 max" and "GMLD is participating in the MLP Solar program at $.60/watt, capped at $10,000." — ene.org Georgetown residential rebates, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Georgetown's weatherization money is the tightest constraint on this schedule: air sealing and insulation share a single annual ceiling per account, so doing both in one year splits one pot rather than drawing two. Heat pumps are limited to ducted systems here, which rules out the mini-split designs several neighboring towns pay for — confirm your system type qualifies before you commit. The solar cap is quoted in dollars on Georgetown's own page and in kilowatts in the shared Energy New England table; they work out to the same ceiling, so use whichever matches the question you are asking. Heat pump applications are due 15 January of the following year, everything else by 31 December.
Groveland Municipal Light Department Rebates — Energy New England (ENE) — Groveland
Estimated benefit: Air source heat pump $500 per ton, $2,000 maximum per account per year. Appliances: smart power strip $10, standard programmable thermostat $25, air purifier $50, air conditioner with proof of disposal $100, induction cooktop $250, hybrid heat pump water heater at up to 50% of the product cost, one per year; $200 maximum in appliance rebates per account per year, with the hybrid water heater excepted from that cap. Level 2 EV charger $250. Weatherization and lawn equipment also offered.
Timing: Applications due 12/31 of the current calendar year.
“"Maximum incentive is limited to 50% of the cost of the individual product." and "$200 maximum in appliance rebates per residential account per year (exception for the hybrid water heater)." — ene.org Groveland residential rebates, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Groveland's appliance rebates share one small annual cap per account, and the hybrid heat pump water heater is the deliberate exception — it pays up to half the product cost, one per year, and sits outside that cap entirely. That makes it the one appliance on this schedule worth planning a year around rather than bundling with everything else. Heat pumps carry their own per-account annual ceiling, so a large system does not scale. Applications close at the end of the calendar year, which leaves no room for error on a December purchase.
Middleton Electric Light Department Rebates — Energy New England (ENE) — Middleton
Estimated benefit: Appliances: advanced power strip $10, unit or window AC $25, programmable thermostat $25, dehumidifier $50, smart Wi-Fi thermostat $50, heat pump water heater (UEF 2+) $500. Heat pump: $1,000 per system, 2 systems maximum — ducted requires SEER2 14.3+ and HSPF2 7.7+; ductless mini-split requires SEER2 15+ and HSPF2 8.5+.
Timing: Applications due 1/31 of the following year.
“Ducted Heat Pump | 14.3+ SEER2 | 7.7+ HSPF2 | $1,000/system, 2 systems max”
Our energy expert: Middleton runs the narrowest schedule in this group — assessments, appliances, air source heat pumps and the EV program, with no weatherization or lawn equipment money — so a Middleton homeowner planning insulation should price it without a rebate. The heat pump rebate is paid per system with a two-system limit rather than per ton, which means one large system earns less here than it would in neighboring towns and two smaller ones earn more. Qualification turns on SEER2 and HSPF2 thresholds that differ between ducted and ductless equipment. Applications are due 31 January of the following year — have your installer confirm the efficiency ratings in writing before you buy.
Rowley Municipal Lighting Plant Rebates — Energy New England (ENE) — Rowley
Estimated benefit: Appliances: dehumidifier $25, programmable thermostat $25, room or window AC $25, clothes washer $50, heat pump or hybrid water heater over 55 gallons $100, heat pump dryer $150, induction electric range $200, heat pump or hybrid water heater under 55 gallons $300. Heat pump: ducted or ductless $500, $1,000 maximum. Solar $0.60/watt capped at 10 kW DC ($6,000 rebate). Lawn equipment $25-$200.
Timing: Applications due 12/31 of the current year.
“Ducted Air Source Heat Pump — $500 ($1,000 max) | Ductless Mini-Split Heat Pump — $500 ($1,000 max)”
Our energy expert: Rowley's water heater rebate inverts what most people expect: the smaller under-55-gallon heat pump unit pays three times what a larger one does, so check capacity against the schedule rather than assuming bigger is better. Heat pumps are capped per home at a level a single system reaches easily, ducted or ductless. The solar rate and cap come from Energy New England's shared solar table rather than Rowley's own page, so confirm them there — along with the reservation requirement — before you sign a solar contract. Applications close 31 December of the purchase year.
Chicopee Electric Light Home Efficiency Incentive Program — Chicopee Electric Light (CELD)
Estimated benefit: 50% of cost, up to $750, on each of: blower door test and air sealing; duct sealing; insulation; an ENERGY STAR rated boiler; an ENERGY STAR rated furnace. One qualifying measure per application.
Timing: 2026 program year form, dated 12.3.25. A free home energy audit is recommended but not required; a post-installation inspection IS required and the signed inspection form must accompany the application.
“"Blower Door Test & Air Sealing - 50% of cost, up to $750 / Duct Sealing - 50% of cost, up to $750 / Insulation - 50% of cost, up to $750 / ENERGY STAR Rated Heating System (Boiler) - 50% of cost, up to $750 / ENERGY STAR Rated Heating System (Furnace) - 50% of cost, up to $750" and "Select Qualifying Measure (One Per Application)" — 2026 Home Efficiency Incentive Rebates, Chicopee Electric Light, p. 1.”
Our energy expert: Chicopee pays half the cost of a measure up to a capped amount, and the structural limit is that it is one qualifying measure per application — so air sealing, duct sealing and insulation are three separate submissions rather than one project. A post-installation inspection is mandatory and the signed inspection form has to travel with the application; skip it and the rebate does not pay, however good the work was. A free home energy audit is recommended rather than required, but it is what tells you which single measure is worth submitting first. The work has to be done by a licensed contractor, self-install does not qualify, and the rebate arrives as a bill credit rather than a cheque.
Littleton Electric Light & Water Green Rewards — Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD), Massachusetts
Estimated benefit: Green Rewards is LELWD's own rebate program and every rebate is paid as a bill credit. Electric (Littleton Electric Light Department): heat pumps $500 and central air conditioning $100; heat pump water heater $250 under 55 gallons or $100 at 55 gallons and over; electric on-demand (tankless) water heater $100, one per household; smart thermostat $50 each, up to two per household; ENERGY STAR clothes washer, clothes dryer, dehumidifier and room air purifier $50 each; cordless electric yard equipment — riding mower $200, push mower $100, and leaf blower, chain saw, hedge trimmer or string trimmer $40 each. Water (Littleton Water Department): ENERGY STAR dishwasher replacing a 1995-or-older unit $50, and smart irrigation controller $50. No rebate can exceed 50% of the purchase price, and all are subject to available funds.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“LELWD reserves the right to determine eligibility or modify any of the Green Reward rebate or incentive programs without prior notice. Rebates and incentives are limited to one per account and cannot exceed 50% of purchase price.”
Our energy expert: Littleton runs its rebates under the name Green Rewards, and the schedule is published on its own Green Rewards rebates page — ask Littleton Electric Light & Water for it directly rather than working from a secondary summary, because the per-measure amounts are the whole answer. Littleton is also an Energy New England member, which means the no-cost home energy assessment route applies and the assessment is usually the prerequisite for anything larger. As a municipal light plant customer you are outside Mass Save, so do not plan around statewide figures. One name trap worth knowing: Littleton, Massachusetts is a different utility from Littleton, New Hampshire, and the two publish different schedules.
PMLP 2026 Heat Pump Rebate Program — Peabody Municipal Light Plant (PMLP)
Estimated benefit: Air source heat pump $500 per ton (12,000 BTU of cooling capacity); ground source heat pump $750 per ton. Maximum rebate $1,500 per address per calendar year, which is based on 36,000 BTU.
Timing: 2026 program year form. We found no separate application deadline on the form; allow 4-6 weeks for processing.
“"Air Source Heat Pump $500 per Ton/12,000 BTUs of Cooling Capacity ... Ground Source Heat Pump $750 per Ton/12,000 BTUs of Cooling Capacity ... *Maximum rebate amount is $1,500 (which is based on 36,000 BTUs) per address, per calendar year*" — 2026 HEAT PUMP REBATES, Peabody Municipal Light Plant, p. 1.”
Our energy expert: Peabody's cap is what decides this, not the per-ton rate: $1,500 per address per calendar year, which an air source system reaches at exactly three tons — a five-ton system earns the same as a three-ton one. Ground source pays more per ton and reaches the same ceiling sooner. Qualification runs on SEER2, HSPF2 and low-temperature COP thresholds that may not be rounded up, and the customer has to certify they received a Manual J sizing report, so the paperwork includes something the contractor must produce. Peabody's form is administered through MMWEC and filed at NextZero — get the Manual J in hand and the thresholds confirmed before the equipment is ordered.
New England Heat Pump Accelerator (NEHPA) — instant discount at the point of sale — State-led regional initiative funded by a federal grant; delivered through participating distributors and contractors. NOT administered by the Mass Save Sponsors.
Estimated benefit: A $650 instant discount on a qualifying heat pump and a $300 instant discount on a qualifying heat pump water heater, applied by the installing contractor or distributor at the point of sale rather than claimed afterwards.
Timing: No end date found on either source. It is grant-funded, which means it ends when the grant money does rather than on a calendar date.
“"NOTE: Instant incentives on heat pumps may also be available through distributors and contractors at the point of sale through the New England Heat Pump Accelerator (NEHPA). The NEHPA is a state-led regional initiative funded by a federal grant, which is not administered by the Mass Save Sponsors." — masssave.com Air Source Heat Pumps, read 2026-10-04. "The New England Heat Pump Accelerator program is live! Ask your installing contractor if your Heat Pump qualifies for a $650 discount" and "... if your Heat Pump Water Heater qualifies for a $300 discount" — ene.org, repeated on the Norwood, Danvers, Belmont, Middleborough, Holden, Georgetown, Groveland and Rowley municipal pages, all read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: This is real money that stacks on top of everything else: $650 off a qualifying heat pump and $300 off a qualifying heat pump water heater, taken off the price by the installing contractor at the point of sale. It is federally grant-funded and explicitly not administered by the Mass Save Sponsors, which is why a Mass Save customer can take it alongside a Sponsor rebate — and why it appears to reach municipal light plant customers who are outside Mass Save altogether. The open question is which models qualify: both sources tell you to ask the installing contractor rather than publishing a list, so it is conditional on the specific equipment and on your contractor participating. Ask that question before you choose equipment, not after, and do not let a quote assume it.
Programs for businesses
Cape Light Compact JPE 13 programs
Multi-Family (5+ units)
Estimated benefit: A comprehensive whole-building energy assessment and a CUSTOM incentive package sized to that assessment — there is no prescriptive unit rate for this program because the incentive is built from the building's own assessed savings. The assessment covers the thermal envelope (insulation and air sealing), lighting and mechanical systems, and the in-unit savings potential for tenants.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“"Eligible multi-family facilities are defined as residential facilities with five or more dwelling units on the property. These facilities may be eligible for a comprehensive assessment and custom incentive packages from the Compact." — capelightcompact.org Multi-Family, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Five or more dwelling units puts your building here and takes it out of the residential program; the two are mutually exclusive, so the unit count decides which door you walk through. There is no per-unit rate to look up — the incentive is built from a whole-building assessment covering envelope, lighting, mechanicals and in-unit tenant savings, and that assessment is what sets the number. If the building is owned by a non-profit or a public housing authority, or at least half the tenants are income-qualified, you belong in the Low Income Multi-Family program instead, so say so when you call. Book the assessment before you scope any equipment.
Business Energy Assessments / Small Business Program
Estimated benefit: Cape Light Compact covers up to 70% of the cost of air sealing and insulation, refrigeration controls and cooler upgrades, thermostats, vending machine controls, variable speed drives, pipe insulation, building management systems, HVAC upgrades and controls, pool heaters covers and pumps, kitchen hood controls, water saving measures and custom measures. LED fixtures and lighting controls are covered up to 50% without lighting controls and up to 70% with controls. Faucet aerators, showerheads, spray valves and smart strips are installed at no cost.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Cape Light Compact covers up to 70% of the cost of these measures”
Our energy expert: Cape Light Compact pays a larger share of small business work than the statewide Mass Save schedule does, and two of its tiers — non-profit and renter, both reaching full coverage — appear nowhere in the statewide material. Lighting is the exception worth knowing: fixtures alone sit at the lower coverage level and only reach the higher one when controls are part of the scope, so specify controls at design time rather than as an afterthought. Water-saving fixtures and smart strips are installed at no charge whether or not you do anything else. The assessment is free and it sizes everything downstream — have it done before you take a quote.
Incentives for Your Business (prescriptive schedule)
Estimated benefit: Air source heat pumps, air source VRF and ground source heat pumps up to $4,500/ton; packaged terminal heat pumps $500/unit; heat pump water heater up to $2,200; food service up to $3,000 instant rebate at time of purchase; vending controls $45-$115 per control; custom up to 50% of project cost; room air cleaner $40; retail-grade battery lawn equipment — mower $75, string trimmer $30, leaf blower $30, chainsaw $30; professional-grade — mower $3,500, string trimmer $100, leaf blower $100, chainsaw $100; attic insulation $0.10 per R-value per square foot; wall insulation $0.16; basement insulation $0.17; attic air sealing $115 per hour; exterior door weatherstripping $11 per linear foot.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“HVAC | Air Source Heat Pumps, Air Source VRF, Ground Source Heat Pumps | Up to $4,500/ton”
Our energy expert: This is the Compact's own prescriptive schedule and it is not the statewide one: heat pump tonnage rates and air sealing labor both pay more here than the figures a Barnstable or Dukes County business owner would find on masssave.com. The practical limit is that prescriptive means prescriptive — equipment that does not match a listed measure goes down the custom route at a share of project cost instead. Food service and vending incentives come off the price at purchase, which means your distributor has to be in the program before you buy. Have your contractor confirm the measure code against the current application before anything is ordered.
Heating & Cooling (commercial)
Estimated benefit: "Air Source Heat Pumps | Application | $2,000/ton"; "Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Systems | Application | $2,800/ton"; "Ground Source Heat Pumps | Application | $3,600/ton"; "Packaged Terminal Heat Pumps > 10,000 BTU/h | Instant Incentive | $350/unit"; "Packaged Terminal Heat Pumps ≤ 10,000 BTU/h | Instant Incentive | $350/unit"; "HVAC - Controls, Water Source Heat Pumps, Air Source Air Conditioner, Pumps | Instant Incentive | Customer incentive included in select equipment cost at time of purchase"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim table — "Air Source Heat Pumps | Application | $2,000/ton"; "Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Systems | Application | $2,800/ton"; "Ground Source Heat Pumps | Application | $3,600/ton"; "Packaged Terminal Heat Pumps > 10,000 BTU/h | Instant Incentive | $350/unit"; "Packaged Terminal Heat Pumps ≤ 10,000 BTU/h | Instant Incentive | $350/unit"; "HVAC - Controls, Water Source Heat Pumps, Air Source Air Conditioner, Pumps | Instant Incentive | Customer incentive included in select equipment cost at time of purchase"”
Our energy expert: Equipment type moves the money here before capacity does: ground source pays more per ton than VRF, and VRF more than a straight air source system, so the mechanical selection decides the incentive. Packaged terminal units and several HVAC accessories are bought down at the distributor rather than rebated afterwards, which means the discount only exists if your supplier participates. Nothing on this schedule survives a change of equipment mid-project, so lock the model numbers before the application goes in. Have an engineer or energy professional price two or three system options against the incentive, not just against first cost.
Customer Directed Option (CDO)
Estimated benefit: "Cape Light Compact covers up to 70% of the cost of these measures" (air sealing & insulation, refrigeration controls & cooler upgrades, thermostats, vending machine controls, variable speed drives, pipe insulation, building management systems, HVAC system upgrades & controls); "Cape Light Compact covers up to 50% of the cost of these measures without lighting controls and up to 70% with controls" (LED fixtures, lighting controls); "Cape Light Compact offers Prescriptive Rebates" (heat pumps)
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim — "Cape Light Compact covers up to 70% of the cost of these measures" (air sealing & insulation, refrigeration controls & cooler upgrades, thermostats, vending machine controls, variable speed drives, pipe insulation, building management systems, HVAC system upgrades & controls); "Cape Light Compact covers up to 50% of the cost of these measures without lighting controls and up to 70% with controls" (LED fixtures, lighting controls); "Cape Light Compact offers Prescriptive Rebates" (heat pumps)”
Our energy expert: The Customer Directed Option is for owners who want to run the project with their own contractor rather than take the Compact's turnkey crew, and the trade is that you keep control and take a defined share of cost rather than a managed outcome. Lighting is the measure to watch: fixtures alone sit at the lower share and only reach the higher one when controls are in the scope. Heat pumps come out of this route entirely and go to the prescriptive schedule, so a mixed project may need two applications. Submit before the work starts — this is a pre-approved pathway, and retroactive requests are the usual way people lose the money.
Lighting & Controls (commercial)
Estimated benefit: "Lighting Controls | Application | Fixed per unit incentive. See application for details"; "Lighting Controls | Instant Incentive | Price of qualifying equipment bought down at time of purchase from a participating distributor"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim — "Lighting Controls | Application | Fixed per unit incentive. See application for details"; "Lighting Controls | Instant Incentive | Price of qualifying equipment bought down at time of purchase from a participating distributor"”
Our energy expert: Controls are where lighting money has moved, and the per-unit amount depends on the control type rather than the fixture it is attached to — so the design decision that matters is which sensing and networking strategy you specify. Two routes exist and they do not combine on the same equipment: a prescriptive application after the fact, or an instant buy-down at a participating distributor. If the distributor already discounted it, that unit is spent. Have your electrical contractor confirm the control codes against the current application before fixtures are ordered.
Foodservice & Refrigeration
Estimated benefit: Chef Base (Refrigerated) "$500"; Combination Oven (Electric) "$4,000"; Convection Oven (Electric) "$400"; Deck Oven "$2,000"; Multiple Tank Conveyor Dishwasher High-Temp "$2,000"; Multiple Tank Conveyor Dishwasher Low-Temp "$900"; On-Demand Commercial Electric Hand Wrap Machine "$100"; Pot, Pan, and Utensil Dishwasher High-Temp "$500"; Single Tank Conveyor Dishwasher High-Temp "$1,500"; Single Tank Conveyor Dishwasher Low-Temp "$1,200"; Undercounter Dishwasher High-Temp "$1,000"; Undercounter Dishwasher Low-Temp "$600"; Door-Type Dishwasher High-Temp "$1,000"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim (instant incentives) — Chef Base (Refrigerated) "$500"; Combination Oven (Electric) "$4,000"; Convection Oven (Electric) "$400"; Deck Oven "$2,000"; Multiple Tank Conveyor Dishwasher High-Temp "$2,000"; Multiple Tank Conveyor Dishwasher Low-Temp "$900"; On-Demand Commercial Electric Hand Wrap Machine "$100"; Pot, Pan, and Utensil Dishwasher High-Temp "$500"; Single Tank Conveyor Dishwasher High-Temp "$1,500"; Single Tank Conveyor Dishwasher Low-Temp "$1,200"; Undercounter Dishwasher High-Temp "$1,000"; Undercounter Dishwasher Low-Temp "$600"; Door-Type Dishwasher High-Temp "$1,000"”
Our energy expert: Dishwashers drive this schedule and the spread between models is large — conveyor versus undercounter, high-temp versus low-temp each pay differently — so the machine you choose matters more than the fact that you are replacing one. Combination ovens sit at the top of the list and are worth pricing against a conventional replacement before you default to like-for-like. These amounts are revised with the program year, so confirm the current figure for your exact model class before you order. Your foodservice dealer should be able to quote the discounted and undiscounted price side by side.
Water Heating (Commercial)
Estimated benefit: "Heat Pump Water Heater under 85 Gallons | Instant Incentive | $1,000/unit | UEF ≥ 3.3"; "Heat Pump Water Heater Between 85 and 120 gallons | Instant Incentive | $2,200/unit | COP ≥ 3.6"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim — "Heat Pump Water Heater under 85 Gallons | Instant Incentive | $1,000/unit | UEF ≥ 3.3"; "Heat Pump Water Heater Between 85 and 120 gallons | Instant Incentive | $2,200/unit | COP ≥ 3.6"”
Our energy expert: Tank size is the dividing line on commercial heat pump water heaters: above roughly 85 gallons the incentive is substantially larger and the qualifying metric changes from UEF to COP, so a slightly bigger tank can be worth more than it costs. Both tiers are instant incentives, meaning the money comes off the purchase price through a participating distributor rather than arriving later — no distributor, no discount. Confirm the current amounts and efficiency thresholds against the Compact's live schedule before you specify anything. A commercial plumbing contractor can tell you whether your draw profile justifies the larger unit.
Other Equipment (BMS, motors & drives, cold storage and lab equipment)
Estimated benefit: "Building Management System (BMS) | Application | See application for full details on offer"; "Motors & Drivers | Application | Fixed per unit incentive. See application for incentive."; "Cold Storage and Lab Equipment | Instant Incentive | Up to $2,000/unit"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim — "Building Management System (BMS) | Application | See application for full details on offer"; "Motors & Drivers | Application | Fixed per unit incentive. See application for incentive."; "Cold Storage and Lab Equipment | Instant Incentive | Up to $2,000/unit"”
Our energy expert: This is the catch-all for building management systems, motors and drives, and cold storage or laboratory equipment, and the amounts come out of the individual applications rather than a single posted rate — the measure defines the money. Cold storage and lab equipment are handled as instant incentives at the distributor; BMS, motors and drives go through an application. That split matters for timing, because one is settled at purchase and the other has to be filed and approved first. Ask the Compact which application your specific equipment falls under before you buy — the wrong form is the most common reason these stall.
New Construction & Major Renovations (commercial)
Estimated benefit: "Lighting & Controls | Instant Incentive | Price of qualifying equipment bought down at time of purchase"; "Chiller | Prescriptive application path | Fixed per unit incentive. See application for incentives."; "HVAC | Instant Incentives | Customer incentive included in select equipment cost at time of purchase"; "Heat Pump Water Heater | Instant Incentive | Up to $2,200"; "Food Service | Instant Rebate | Up to $3,000 instant rebate at time of purchase"; "Motors & Drives | Prescriptive application path - Variable Speed Drives | Fixed per unit incentive."; "Compressed Air | Prescriptive path | Fixed per unit incentive."; "Custom | Custom Calculated. Up to 75% of incremental project cost for qualifying measures; must pass Benefit Cost Screening."
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim — "Lighting & Controls | Instant Incentive | Price of qualifying equipment bought down at time of purchase"; "Chiller | Prescriptive application path | Fixed per unit incentive. See application for incentives."; "HVAC | Instant Incentives | Customer incentive included in select equipment cost at time of purchase"; "Heat Pump Water Heater | Instant Incentive | Up to $2,200"; "Food Service | Instant Rebate | Up to $3,000 instant rebate at time of purchase"; "Motors & Drives | Prescriptive application path - Variable Speed Drives | Fixed per unit incentive."; "Compressed Air | Prescriptive path | Fixed per unit incentive."; "Custom | Custom Calculated. Up to 75% of incremental project cost for qualifying measures; must pass Benefit Cost Screening."”
Our energy expert: On a new commercial building the custom path is usually where the real money is: it pays a share of incremental cost on measures that beat code and it has to clear a benefit-cost screening, which means the energy modeling is the work that earns the incentive. Lighting, HVAC and food service equipment arrive as distributor buy-downs instead, so your contractor's supply chain decides whether you ever see them. All of it depends on being involved before the design is fixed — a building already permitted has lost most of its options. Bring an energy professional in alongside the architect, not after the drawings are issued.
Lawn Equipment & Forklifts (commercial)
Estimated benefit: "Retail-Grade Battery-Power Lawn Mower | Application | $75 | Must have a battery capacity less than 500-watt hours"; "Retail-Grade Battery-Powered String Trimmer, Leaf Blower or Chainsaw | Application | $30"; "Professional-Grade Battery-Powered Lawn Mower | Application | $3,500 | Must have a battery capacity more than 7000-watt hours"; "Professional-Grade Battery-Powered String Trimmer, Leaf Blower or Chainsaw | Prescriptive application | $100 | Must have a battery capacity more than 500-watt hours"; "Battery Powered Electric Forklift | Application | $6,000"; "High Frequency Battery Chargers | Application | $550"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim — "Retail-Grade Battery-Power Lawn Mower | Application | $75 | Must have a battery capacity less than 500-watt hours"; "Retail-Grade Battery-Powered String Trimmer, Leaf Blower or Chainsaw | Application | $30"; "Professional-Grade Battery-Powered Lawn Mower | Application | $3,500 | Must have a battery capacity more than 7000-watt hours"; "Professional-Grade Battery-Powered String Trimmer, Leaf Blower or Chainsaw | Prescriptive application | $100 | Must have a battery capacity more than 500-watt hours"; "Battery Powered Electric Forklift | Application | $6,000"; "High Frequency Battery Chargers | Application | $550"”
Our energy expert: Battery capacity is the gate on this schedule, not the brand or the price: professional-grade equipment has to exceed a stated watt-hour threshold to earn the larger amount, and retail-grade tools below it earn the small one. The forklift and the high-frequency charger are the two lines worth a serious look for any warehouse still running propane, and they are claimed separately. Each is an application-based rebate, so the paperwork follows the purchase rather than coming off the invoice. Check the battery spec against the threshold before ordering — it is the one detail that disqualifies otherwise eligible equipment.
Custom (custom incentive pathway)
Estimated benefit: "Custom | Custom Application | Custom calculated. Must pass Benefit Cost Screening."
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim — "Custom | Custom Application | Custom calculated. Must pass Benefit Cost Screening."”
Our energy expert: Custom is where projects go when no prescriptive measure fits, and the amount comes out of a project-specific review rather than a rate table — which means the quality of your savings analysis largely determines what you are paid. Every custom project has to pass a benefit-cost screening, so a measure that saves little relative to its cost can be declined outright no matter how well documented it is. Get the analysis done before you commit capital, and get the Compact's offer in writing before equipment is ordered. This is exactly the work a qualified energy engineer earns their fee on.
Services for Municipalities (municipal energy efficiency)
Estimated benefit: Set per project rather than from a fixed schedule. The Compact scopes the measures at a municipal building — schools, town offices, police and fire stations, parking areas and other public facilities — and the incentive follows the equipment actually installed and the savings it is modelled to achieve, through the same non-residential rebate and custom offerings the Compact runs for Cape and Vineyard businesses. Electricity supply is handled separately, through a competitive bid that gives participating towns a fixed rate. Incentives the Compact has published for completed municipal projects range from $13,778 (Wellfleet Fire & Rescue) to $125,852 (Cape Cod Community College), with $58,334 at the Provincetown Police Station. A town gets its own figure by asking the Compact to scope the building: 1-800-797-6699 or efficiency@capelightcompact.org.
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“"Cape Light Compact works with the 21 member towns to implement energy efficiency measures in new and existing schools, town offices, police and fire stations, parking areas and other public facilities, as well as procure power supply through a competitive bid process." The same page carries the awards for completed municipal projects: "Provincetown Police Station $58,334 In Incentives", "Cape Cod Community College $125,852 in incentives", "Wellfleet Fire & Rescue $13,778 in Incentives". — capelightcompact.org/program/energy-efficiency-for-municipalities/, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Municipal buildings on the Cape and the Vineyard come at this through the Compact rather than a statewide program, and the incentive is built from each facility's own assessment rather than looked up — which is why the published examples are project outcomes rather than rates. Schools and public safety buildings are usually where the largest savings sit, because they run long hours on old equipment. Towns with a capital plan should have the assessments done a budget cycle ahead of the money, not alongside it. Contact the Compact's municipal team and ask for an assessment schedule covering your whole building portfolio at once.
Mass Save (six Sponsors) 12 programs
Small Business Energy Assessments
Estimated benefit: No-cost in-person energy assessments, with recommended upgrades paid for up to 70 percent by your Sponsor.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Recommended upgrades may include air sealing & weatherization, HVAC system upgrades, lighting system upgrades and more, paid for up to 70 percent by your Sponsor.”
Our energy expert: The qualification screen is the first thing to check: this is for small business accounts below a stated annual consumption threshold, and that number decides whether you are in this program or in the large commercial one with different rules. The assessment is at no cost and your Sponsor pays most of the cost of what it recommends, which makes it the right first move for almost any small commercial property in Sponsor territory. Municipal light plant customers are outside Mass Save entirely and have to go to their own light department instead. Book the assessment before you price any upgrade — the incentive is tied to the measures it identifies.
Existing Building Commissioning (EBCx)
Estimated benefit: Up to 100% of the cost of qualification and investigation studies, plus $0.17 per kWh and $1.20 per therm on implemented and verified measures.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Offer up to 100% of the cost of qualification and investigation studies depending on the building size and complexity. Pay incentives for implemented and verified measures of $0.17/kWh and $1.20/therm on top of study payments.”
Our energy expert: Existing building commissioning pays for the investigation as well as the fix — up to the full cost of the qualification and investigation studies, then per-unit incentives on measures you actually implement and verify. That combination is unusual, and it is why this is the strongest first move for a building with decent equipment that is not working together properly. The second half only pays on verified savings, so the measurement and verification work is not paperwork, it is the thing being paid for. A qualified commissioning engineer should run the qualification study — and get Sponsor approval before the study starts, not after.
New Construction and Major Renovations — heat pump incentive
Estimated benefit: Per ton by tier: first 300 tons — air source $800, VRF $1,200, ground source $3,600. Tons 300-800 — $800 / $1,200 / $2,700. Tons 800-1,600 — $800 / $1,200 / $1,800. Tons 1,600 and above — $500 / $500 / $500.
Timing: Effective January 1, 2025, the Sponsors of Mass Save are no longer permitted to issue incentive payments tied to fossil fuel equipment or new construction buildings with fossil fuel equipment.
“Tier 1 | First 300 Tons | ASHP $800 | VRF $1,200 | GSHP $3,600”
Our energy expert: The per-ton rates here are incremental, not a single rate picked by system size: a large ground source project earns the top rate on the first band of tonnage, a lower rate on the next, and lower again above that — so adding the tonnage up and multiplying by the headline rate overstates the incentive substantially. Ground source pays several times what air source does per ton in the first band, which is where the system selection decision really sits. Since 1 January 2025 Mass Save Sponsors cannot pay incentives tied to fossil fuel equipment or to new construction containing it, so a dual-fuel design forfeits this entirely. Have your engineer model the banded calculation before the incentive goes into a pro forma.
Deep Energy Retrofit
Estimated benefit: An additional $1 per square foot on achievement, plus up to $20,000 reimbursement for enhanced commissioning and verification.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“In addition to existing energy efficiency program incentives, your business will receive an additional $1/sq ft upon DER achievement.”
Our energy expert: The per-square-foot payment here is on top of the standard incentives, not instead of them, and that is what makes a deep retrofit pencil where a measure-by-measure approach does not. A separate capped reimbursement covers enhanced commissioning and verification, which is what proves the achievement the main payment depends on. The condition is achievement: this pays on reaching a performance target, so a project that falls short drops back to the standard incentives. Get the target modelled and agreed with your Sponsor before the design is fixed.
Commercial and Industrial Weatherization Rebates
Estimated benefit: Attic insulation $2.40 per square foot; wall insulation $2.40 per square foot; basement insulation $1.20 per square foot; attic air sealing $103 per hour of air sealing work; exterior door weatherstripping $10 per linear foot.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Attic Insulation | $2.40 per square foot”
Our energy expert: Commercial weatherization pays per square foot on insulation and per hour on attic air sealing, which means the quantity surveyed and the labor recorded are what you are paid on — documentation matters more here than on an equipment rebate. Attic and wall insulation pay at the same rate and basement insulation at half of it, so where the work happens changes the answer. If your property is in Cape Light Compact territory, note the Compact publishes higher figures for the directly comparable measures, so do not price a Cape building off the statewide schedule. Confirm the current per-unit rates with your own Sponsor before the contractor quotes.
Instant Lighting Incentives (midstream)
Estimated benefit: Interior fixture with occupancy sensor $60; interior fixture with dual sensor $60; interior fixture with DLC qualified LLLC or NLC $60; low or high bay fixture with occupancy sensor $70; low/high bay with dual sensor $70; low/high bay with DLC qualified LLLC or NLC $70; exterior fixture with occupancy sensor $70.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Interior Fixture with Occupancy Sensor $60; Low/High Bay Fixture with Occupancy Sensor $70”
Our energy expert: Since January 2026 a plain LED fixture with no sensor earns nothing under this program — the incentive is for the control, not the light, and that single rule change is the most important thing to know before you order fixtures. High and low bay fixtures with controls pay more than interior fixtures with the same controls, so ceiling height affects the number. This is a midstream program, meaning the discount comes off the distributor's price with no application to file, which only works if your distributor participates. Ask the distributor to show you the discounted and undiscounted price for the exact control configuration you are specifying.
Upgrade Existing Lighting — Commercial & Industrial Lighting Controls (prescriptive)
Estimated benefit: Per-control prescriptive incentives: remote-mounted dual sensor (code 162) $60; interior integral fixture-mounted dual sensor (163) $60; interior integral networked LLLC/NLC (163A) $70; low/high bay dual sensors (168) $70; outdoor occupancy (166) $70; outdoor integral dual (165) $70; networked integral LLLC/NLC (165A) $80.
Timing: "This incentive program covers applications created on or after January 1, 2026 ... Any projects not fully completed by December 31, 2026 may not qualify for incentives." (p. 2). Pre-approval from the electric Sponsor is required BEFORE purchase; once pre-approved, install within 12 months and return documentation within 30 days of installation.
“"Lighting controls eligibility table — Product code 162 Remote-mounted dual sensor $60 ... 163A Interior integral networked LLLC/NLC $70 ... 165A Networked integral LLLC/NLC $80" — Commercial & Industrial Lighting Controls Incentive Application, Mass Save 2026, January 2026, pp. 4-5. Table rendered to PNG at 110dpi and read visually; column alignment confirmed.”
Our energy expert: The per-control amounts for this program are published in the 2026 application PDF linked from the Mass Save lighting and controls page, with each control type carrying its own product code — so the specification you write, down to the code, determines the incentive. Two conditions disqualify otherwise good projects: the facility's lighting has to average at least 2,000 hours a year, and equipment already discounted at the distributor under the instant lighting program cannot be claimed here. Pre-approval from your electric Sponsor is required before purchase, and once approved you have twelve months to install and thirty days afterwards to return documentation. Projects not fully completed by 31 December 2026 may not qualify, so have your contractor file for pre-approval before anything is ordered.
Custom Incentives
Estimated benefit: Set per project. The incentive is calculated from the energy analysis for the specific measure rather than at a unit rate — the Sponsor quantifies projected savings and makes a project-specific offer. Technical assistance to produce that analysis is part of the offering.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“"Incentives for equipment and measures not covered by standard incentives. These projects typically require additional energy analysis or other technical assistance." and "Support for businesses in implementing customized energy efficiency projects—including quantifying how much energy is projected to be saved at project completion." — masssave.com Custom Incentives & Technical Support, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Custom is where a project goes when no prescriptive form fits it, and the amount is set by a project-specific review of your energy analysis — your Sponsor quantifies the projected savings and makes an offer, which means the quality of the engineering study largely determines what you are paid. Any business can inquire regardless of size or industry, and the technical assistance to produce that analysis is part of the offering rather than something you fund separately. The practical limit is timing: a custom offer is made before the work, and a completed project has nothing left to negotiate. Get the analysis and the written offer in hand before equipment is ordered.
Commercial Heat Pumps — process changes
Estimated benefit: Confirm current incentive amounts with your Mass Save Sponsor. Two dated process changes on the program page matter for project timing.
Timing: Both changes are already in effect as of collection.
“Effective June 1, 2026, all commercial heat pump projects over 35 tons — including air source, ground source, and variable refrigerant flow systems — will be processed as custom projects through your electric Mass Save Sponsor.”
Our energy expert: Two process rules took effect and both are binding: anything above 35 tons goes through the custom track rather than a rebate form, and every commercial heat pump project now needs pre-approval before the equipment goes in — for smaller systems that means a Rebate Commitment Letter, valid for four months. Install first and the incentive is forfeited, however well the project performs. The per-measure amounts for commercial heat pumps are set out in the Mass Save commercial HVAC application rather than on the program page, so ask your Sponsor for the current application and price against its table. Get the commitment letter before the purchase order goes out.
Municipal Retrofit Lighting Upgrades
Estimated benefit: Per-fixture prescriptive incentives for municipal retrofits: LED indoor retrofit kits 1x4/2x2/2x4 troffers (88A) $50; LED indoor troffers (88B) $70; LED linear ambient (89) $70; LED interior directional wall wash/track/mono-point (91) $40; low bay mid output 5,000-10,000 lm (86A) $120; high bay high output >10,000-30,000 lm (86B) $170; high bay very high output >30,000 lm (86C) $250. Lamp-level: T8 linear replacement lamps (81AT8) $5; T5 (81AT5) $10; U-bend (81ATB) $10; T8 LED retrofit tube kits (81) $15 per lamp within a qualifying kit; T5 LED linear and U-bend retrofit tube kits (81D) $20 per lamp within a qualifying kit.
Timing: "Any projects not fully completed by October 31, 2026 may not qualify for incentives" — Municipal Lighting - Systems and Sensors, Mass Save 2026, p. 2. That is 27 days from this collection. The project must be COMPLETE, not merely started.
“"Lighting systems eligibility and incentive levels — 88A LED Indoor Retrofit Kits: 1x4, 2x2, and 2x4 Troffers $50 ... 86C High Bay: Very High Output (>30,000 lumens) $250" — Municipal Lighting - Systems and Sensors, Mass Save 2026, January 2026, p. 5. Table rendered to PNG and read visually.”
Our energy expert: The date is the whole story here: the 2026 municipal lighting application states that projects not fully completed by 31 October 2026 may not qualify, and completion — not commencement — is the test. Any town with a retrofit in planning should be talking to its Sponsor now, because the fixture and lamp incentives are exactly what that deadline applies to. Incentives are per fixture and per lamp by product code, and high-output high bay fixtures pay several times what a troffer does, so the inventory you are replacing decides the total. Fixtures have to be DLC-listed per code and the facility has to average at least 2,000 lighting hours a year — confirm both with your Sponsor before you commit to a completion date.
Multi-Family Energy Assessment (5+ units)
Estimated benefit: No-cost air sealing, up to 100% off insulation, rebates on high-efficiency heating, cooling and water heating equipment, and 0% HEAT Loan financing for condos and owner-occupied units on a residential rate.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“No-cost air sealing; Up to 100% off insulation”
Our energy expert: The five-unit boundary is the whole story: at four units and below you are in the residential program, at five and above you are in multifamily, and the offerings differ enough that the unit count changes what the building can get. Air sealing comes at no cost and insulation can be fully covered, with equipment rebates on heating, cooling and water heating on top. The 0% HEAT Loan route is available for condos and owner-occupied units on a residential rate — that is debt, so price the repayment rather than counting it as part of the incentive. Book the assessment and settle which program the building falls into before any equipment is specified.
Multi-Family New Construction (5+ units)
Estimated benefit: Base: low-rise $1,500/unit, high-rise $1,000/unit. ENERGY STAR: low-rise $2,500/unit, high-rise $1,750/unit. Passive House: $3,750/unit ($750 pre-certification, $3,000 final certification), plus a $5,000 feasibility study incentive and up to 75% of energy modeling costs ($500/unit or $20,000 per project maximum).
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Base — Low-rise: $1,500/Unit; High-rise: $1,000/Unit”
Our energy expert: Incentives here are per unit and tiered on performance, with low-rise paying more per unit than high-rise at every tier — so building type and unit count together decide the total before the tier does. Passive House is paid in two parts, at pre-certification and at final certification, and there are separate incentives for a feasibility study and for a share of the energy modeling cost, which is how the early work gets funded. The electrification requirement is looser than on single-family: domestic hot water may still be fossil-fueled on multifamily, a distinction that is easy to carry across wrongly in either direction. Get the feasibility incentive in place before the design is fixed — it is the cheapest point of entry.
Massachusetts DOER Green Communities Division 3 programs
Green Communities Designation and Grant Program
Estimated benefit: Initial designation grants are based on a $125,000 base for each designated Green Community, plus additional amounts tied to per capita income and population. Up to $20 million annually across the program.
Timing: Designation deadline published on the division calendar as December 31st. Competitive grants: Climate Leaders Accelerator 'First Fridays in February and August'; Regional School District Decarbonization September 4, 2026; Green Communities Competitive Grant October 9, 2026; Climate Leaders Technical Support November 5, 2026; Municipal Decarbonization Roadmap Assistance November 27th, 2026.
“Initial designation grants are based on a $125,000 base for each designated Green Community, plus additional amounts tied to per capita income and population.”
Our energy expert: Designation comes first and the grant follows it — a town cannot apply for Green Communities money without being designated, and designation has its own annual deadline. The initial designation grant is calculated from a base amount per designated community plus components tied to population and per capita income, a formula DOER states in its own designation announcements; the base has changed between rounds, so confirm it against the most recent announcement rather than an older one. Competitive grants after designation run on their own separate deadlines through the year, several clustered in autumn. If your town is not yet designated, that is the work to start now — every grant here is downstream of it.
Climate Leader Communities
Estimated benefit: Decarbonization Technical Support Grant up to $150,000; Decarbonization Accelerator Grant up to $1,000,000.
Timing: "Applications will be accepted semi-annually. The first deadline is August 1, 2025, at 5:00 PM. Subsequent deadlines will be the first Fridays in February and August at 5:00 PM." The next deadline on that cycle is the first Friday in February 2027.
“The first, the Decarbonization Technical Support Grant, is designed to provide communities up to $150,000 to hire vendors to produce recommendations and engineering design documents for one or more clean energy projects at municipal facilities.”
Our energy expert: There are two grants on this program, not one, and they work as a sequence: a technical support grant of up to $150,000 to hire vendors who produce recommendations and engineering design documents, and an accelerator grant of up to $1,000,000 to build what those documents specify. Towns that skip the first usually arrive at the second without a fundable project. Two eligibility bars disqualify a municipality outright — an active moratorium on permitting ground-mounted solar or battery storage, and a missing Green Communities annual report for the most recent fiscal year. Deadlines fall on the first Fridays in February and August, so clear those bars well ahead of one; neither can be fixed in a week.
Decarbonization Accelerator Grant (Climate Leader Communities)
Estimated benefit: Up to $1,000,000 for projects that significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from municipal operations.
Timing: "Applications will be accepted semi-annually. The first deadline is August 1, 2025, at 5:00 PM. Subsequent deadlines will be the first Fridays in February and August at 5:00 PM."
“"Climate Leader Communities are also eligible for Decarbonization Accelerator Grants, which provides up to $1,000,000 for projects that significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from municipal operations." — mass.gov Climate Leader Communities, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: This is the build-it grant at up to $1,000,000, and it is designed to follow the technical support grant rather than stand alone — projects have to align with the community's Climate Leader municipal decarbonization plan, which is what the smaller grant pays a vendor to produce. A town applying here without that engineering work usually has nothing fundable to describe. Two eligibility bars are absolute: no active moratorium on permitting ground-mounted solar or battery storage, and the most recent fiscal year's Green Communities annual report has to be filed. Deadlines are the first Fridays in February and August, so clear the bars and get the plan written well ahead of one.
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center 2 programs
BETA: Project Planning (building audits)
Estimated benefit: No cost, in-depth building audits.
Timing: Rolling.
“no cost, in-depth building audits”
Our energy expert: The square-footage floor on this program was removed, which is the change that matters — small commercial buildings that were shut out of in-depth audit funding now qualify, and the page says so explicitly. The audit is at no cost and enrollment is rolling rather than deadline-driven, so there is no round to wait for. What it produces is a project definition, not an installed measure, so budget separately for the work it recommends. Apply through MassCEC and have the audit in hand before you take contractor pricing.
Green School Works Technical Assistance
Estimated benefit: Technical assistance worth up to $250k.
Timing: Rolling enrollment.
“Technical assistance worth up to $250k”
Our energy expert: Only half of this program is still open: the technical assistance is available on rolling enrollment and the grant funding is closed — a distinction worth getting right before a school committee builds a budget around it. The technical assistance is worth taking on its own terms, because it produces the engineering basis a future funding round or capital article would need. Enrollment is rolling, so the constraint is your own timeline rather than a deadline. Apply for the technical assistance and treat construction funding as a separate problem to solve.
National Grid Massachusetts 2 programs
Multifamily Program
Estimated benefit: No-cost energy evaluations, and no-cost upgrades where the building is income-qualified.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Regardless of whether your building is publicly or privately owned, you can qualify for no-cost upgrades if 50% or more of residents in the building are income qualified.”
Our energy expert: The evaluation is free either way; what decides the money is whether the building qualifies as income-eligible, because that tier moves from subsidised upgrades to no-cost ones. If it does qualify, the work is delivered through the LEAN program rather than by National Grid directly, so expect a hand-off and a different point of contact. That hand-off is the most common place these projects stall — confirm who owns your file once the evaluation is done. Book the evaluation first and do not order equipment until you know which track the building is on.
Small Business Program — LED Lighting
Estimated benefit: Grid will cover up to 70% of the installation costs for indoor and outdoor LED upgrades at your small business.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“We will cover up to 70% of the installation costs for indoor and outdoor LED upgrades at your small business.”
Our energy expert: National Grid covers most of the installation cost on indoor and outdoor LED work for small businesses, and the lump-sum discount for paying up front is the detail that changes the economics — it is on National Grid's own page and not in the statewide material. Lighting is the one upgrade where the payback is usually short enough that the remaining share is still worth borrowing for. This is for small business accounts, so the qualification screen on annual consumption decides whether you are in the program at all. Have your contractor confirm your account qualifies and secure the incentive before fixtures are ordered.
Berkshire Gas Company 1 program
Facility Assessment (business)
Estimated benefit: A no-cost energy assessment, with Berkshire Gas contributing up to 50% toward the installation of program-approved energy saving measures identified during the audit.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Berkshire Gas will contribute up to 50% toward the installation of program-approved energy saving measures identified during the audit.”
Our energy expert: The assessment itself costs nothing and is the useful part: it identifies the measures and tells you which are worth funding. Be careful on the gas side — Berkshire's business rebates page states that gas efficiency rebates were discontinued as of 31 August 2024, while this page still advertises a contribution toward gas-savings measures, and the two have not been reconciled. Until they are, confirm directly with Berkshire whether a specific gas measure is still funded before you scope it. Book the assessment and ask that question in the same call.
Energy New England (ENE) — Norwood 1 program
Norwood Commercial and Industrial Rebates
Estimated benefit: Commercial/Industrial LED Lighting Retrofit: Norwood contributes a percentage of project cost to a maximum of fifty percent, or up to specified limits that vary across four customer groups (municipal, small commercial, medium commercial, large commercial/industrial). Commercial Level 2 EV charging: up to $6,000 per dual-port charging station, of which up to $3,000 for the charging unit and up to $3,000 for installation, one rebate per address. A Commercial/Industrial Refrigeration Retrofit program runs on the same four-group structure.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-28. Budgetary limitations mean only a certain number of projects can be undertaken each year.
“"The Town of Norwood will contribute a percentage (maximum of fifty percent) of the project cost, or up to certain specified limits depending upon the size of the customer. The breakdown is as follows" and "The rebate amount is up to $6,000 per dual port charging station, with up to $3,000 for the charging unit and up to $3,000 for the installation." — ene.org Norwood residential rebates page, Commercial/Industrial section, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Norwood's commercial lighting rebate is a share of project cost up to half, with the dollar ceiling varying by how large a customer you are — municipal, small, medium or large commercial each have their own limit, so your account size sets the ceiling before your fixture count does. Commercial Level 2 charging is the cleaner offer: up to $6,000 per dual-port station split between hardware and installation, one per address. Both are constrained by an annual project budget, so a late application can be told to wait a year rather than being turned down on merit. Request the current lighting application and worksheet from Norwood's commercial contact before you scope the retrofit — that document is where your tier's limit is set.
Energy New England (ENE) — Shared 1 program
Municipal Light Plant Commercial and Industrial Rebates
Estimated benefit: Commercial energy assessment: discounted or no-cost depending on the utility (Hingham publishes 'the customer pays one third (1/3) of the cost ... HMLP's portion will range from $500 to $3,750'). Commercial lighting retrofit caps by utility: Belmont 50% up to $4,000; Hingham 50% up to $4,000; Holden 50% up to $5,000; Middleborough $1,000 per kilowatt saved up to $4,000/$8,000/$15,000 by account size; Norwood 50-75% up to $8,000-$24,000 by customer size. Commercial EV charging up to $6,000 per dual port station at Braintree, Concord, Hingham and Norwood.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-28; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Commercial customers in Hingham can get up to $6,000 per account lifetime for a level-2 dual port charging station, up to $3,000 each for installation and equipment, or up to $1,500 each per port.”
Our energy expert: Across these municipal light plants commercial lighting is capped in two different ways — a share of project cost in some towns, a dollar-per-kilowatt-saved rate in others — and the second rewards good engineering far more than the first. The same retrofit can therefore be worth very different money depending on which town you operate in, so a multi-site business should price each location separately. Commercial assessments are discounted rather than free in several towns, with the customer paying a stated share of the cost. Ask your own light department for its current commercial schedule and cap before you put a lighting project out to quote.
Holyoke Gas & Electric (HG&E) 1 program
Holyoke Gas & Electric (HG&E) Commercial Heat Pumps, Demand Response and Free Audits
Estimated benefit: Air source heat pumps $250 per ton up to $1,250 for small businesses and office spaces; commercial demand response $8/kW at monthly peaks; free energy audits for small businesses and multi-family buildings.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Rebates of $250/ton up to $1,250 available for qualifying air source heat pumps”
Our energy expert: Holyoke's commercial offer has three parts, and the free audit for small businesses and multi-family buildings is the one to use first — it tells you which of the others is worth chasing. The demand response payment is per kilowatt at monthly peaks, which rewards a business that can genuinely move load rather than one that simply installs equipment. HG&E restructured its business pages recently and the commercial heat pump figures moved, so read the current rebates and incentives pages rather than an older per-ton quote. Book the audit, then confirm each measure's live amount with HG&E before you scope the work.
Massachusetts DOER (administered by Center for Sustainable Energy) 1 program
MOR-EV Trucks — Pick-Ups and Class 2b
Estimated benefit: $7,500 rebate.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“MOR-EV Trucks offers $7,500 rebates for Class 2 pick-up trucks with a GVWR between 6,000 and 10,000 pounds or other vehicles with a GVWR between 8,501 – 10,000 pounds.”
Our energy expert: Pick-ups and Class 2b trucks have their own MOR-EV rebate, and the eligibility difference from the car program is the first thing to check: government entities are eligible here and are not eligible for the passenger vehicle rebate. That makes this a genuine route for a municipal or school department fleet rather than a commercial-only offer. It is a per-vehicle amount, so a multi-vehicle order scales — but confirm whether any per-fleet limit applies before you build a purchase order around it. Confirm the current amount and your organization's eligibility with the program administrator before you order.
Middleborough Gas & Electric Department (MGED) 1 program
Middleborough Gas & Electric Department (MGED) Commercial Lighting Energy Rebate (CLER)
Estimated benefit: Small commercial to 199 kW: $1,000 per kilowatt saved up to $4,000. Medium commercial and industrial 200-500 kW: $1,000 per kilowatt saved up to $8,000. Large commercial and industrial over 500 kW: $1,000 per kilowatt saved up to $15,000.
Timing: This program will run from January 1 to December 31 or until budgeted program funds have been expended.
“Small Commercial accounts (to 199 kW) - $1,000 per Kilowatt saved up to $4,000”
Our energy expert: This pays on demand reduction — dollars per kilowatt saved — rather than per fixture, which makes it the best commercial lighting structure in the Massachusetts municipal set for a well-engineered project and the worst for a lazy one-for-one swap. Your account size sets the ceiling: small, medium and large commercial each have a different maximum, so the same kilowatt saving is worth a different total depending on your demand. The program runs the calendar year or until the budget is spent, whichever comes first, so a late application can miss on funding rather than on merit. Have the demand savings calculated before you specify fixtures — that calculation is what you are being paid on.
NextZero (MMWEC) — 23 municipal light plants 1 program
NextZero Commercial Prescriptive Lighting and HVAC
Estimated benefit: Amounts are set by each participating light department. Wakefield lists up to $5,000 each for prescriptive lighting and prescriptive HVAC.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Incentives available through the Prescriptive Lighting Program are based upon equipment eligibility and pre-determined incentive per unit.”
Our energy expert: Commercial availability is town by town rather than universal here, so the first question is whether your light department runs the program at all. Per-unit amounts are set by each participating department and published in its own prescriptive lighting and HVAC documentation — ask for that document, because those per-measure figures are what a retrofit gets priced against. Pre-approval and specific qualifying products are both required, which means an order placed before approval is an order at your own risk. Have an energy professional confirm the product list and get pre-approval in hand before anything is purchased.
Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (WMGLD) 1 program
Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (WMGLD) Commercial Rebates
Estimated benefit: Prescriptive lighting up to $5,000; prescriptive HVAC up to $5,000; custom varies; solar up to $20,000 at $0.80 per watt.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Prescriptive Lighting: Up to $5,000. Prescriptive HVAC: Up to $5,000. Solar: Up to $20,000 at $0.80 per watt.”
Our energy expert: Prescriptive lighting and prescriptive HVAC are capped separately at Wakefield, so a project touching both draws two ceilings rather than one — scope them as two applications. Custom is the route for anything the prescriptive lists do not cover, and that amount comes out of a project review rather than a table. Solar is capped in dollars at a per-watt rate. If you take gas from Wakefield as well, or you are a demand-charge customer, ask about the enhanced schedule — it exists, and it is worth requesting in writing before you commit.
Other administrators 2 programs
Mass Save Custom Projects (Commercial and Industrial) — Liberty Utilities Massachusetts
Estimated benefit: 50 percent of the cost for a licensed professional engineer to perform the Scoping Study up to a maximum of $7,500, and 50 percent of qualified installed cost up to a maximum of $100,000 per master meter.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Liberty will pay 50 percent of the cost for a licensed professional engineer (P.E.) to perform the Scoping Study up to a maximum amount of $7,500.”
Our energy expert: Two separate pots make this worth a look: half the cost of a licensed professional engineer's scoping study, and half the installed cost of what the study recommends, each with its own ceiling. The study incentive is the one businesses skip and should not — it is what turns a vague idea into a priced, fundable project — and the installation cap applies per master meter, so how your building is metered changes the answer. Liberty's page prints that $100,000 installation cap with a punctuation error, so confirm the figure with Liberty rather than reading it off the page. Get the scoping study pre-approved before you engage the engineer.
Massachusetts Farm Energy Program (MFEP) Incentives — Center for EcoTechnology, under contract to MDAR
Estimated benefit: Up to $4,000 maximum total incentive for farms eligible for public utility rebate programs; up to $5,000 for farms served by municipal utilities that do not offer conservation incentives. Per-unit: $0.20 per kWh electricity, $0.10 per kWh for lighting, $1.75 per therm of natural gas, $2.50 per gallon of propane, $2.00 per gallon of fuel oil, $250 per cord of wood.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Farms may be eligible to receive up to $4,000 toward the cost of energy efficiency retrofits or renewable energy projects.”
Our energy expert: The useful distinction here is one most farm programs do not make: farms served by a municipal utility that offers no conservation incentives get a higher ceiling than farms that can already reach a utility rebate program, which is a deliberate gap-filler for the forty-odd municipal light plant territories outside Mass Save. Incentives are paid per unit of energy saved — per kilowatt-hour, per therm, per gallon, even per cord of wood — so the measured saving drives the amount rather than the equipment cost. Both tiers are capped, and the cap is a total across the project rather than per measure. Contact the Massachusetts Farm Energy Program before you scope the work; the savings calculation is what you are paid on.
Programs for homes & businesses
Cape Light Compact JPE 3 programs
Smart Thermostats (rebate) + ConnectedSolutions thermostat enrollment
Estimated benefit: Rebate table: "7-day programmable thermostats | Up to $25/thermostat (limit 3)"; "ENERGY STAR® certified Smart thermostats | Up to $100/thermostat (limit 3)" ConnectedSolutions: "You'll receive a $50 prepaid Mastercard* per thermostat for enrolling, and another $20 prepaid Mastercard** per thermostat per season for participating." Footnotes: "*Income-eligible customers on an R-2 rate will receive a $100 enrollment incentive." / "**Small and medium-sized businesses on a G-1 or G-2 will receive a $200 enrollment incentive"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim — Rebate table: "7-day programmable thermostats | Up to $25/thermostat (limit 3)"; "ENERGY STAR® certified Smart thermostats | Up to $100/thermostat (limit 3)" ConnectedSolutions: "You'll receive a $50 prepaid Mastercard* per thermostat for enrolling, and another $20 prepaid Mastercard** per thermostat per season for participating." Footnotes: "*Income-eligible customers on an R-2 rate will receive a $100 enrollment incentive." / "**Small and medium-sized businesses on a G-1 or G-2 will receive a $200 enrollment incentive"”
Our energy expert: There are two separate pots here and taking one does not forfeit the other: a rebate on the thermostat itself, and a per-thermostat payment for letting the Compact adjust it during peak events. The enrollment payment is larger for income-eligible residential accounts and larger again for small and medium businesses on a commercial rate, so which rate code you are on changes the answer. Both offers cap the number of thermostats per account, so a large house does not scale indefinitely. Enroll after installation rather than before, and confirm your model is on the eligible device list.
Appliances (room AC, clothes dryers, electric stoves, dehumidifier turn-in, refrigerator/freezer recycling)
Estimated benefit: "Room Air Conditioner: $40 Rebate" — "*Limit two rebates per account per calendar year." "Clothes Dryer: $50 Standard Electric Dryer Rebate or $200 Heat Pump Dryer Rebate" — "*Limit one rebate per account per calendar year." "Electric Stove: $500 Rebate for Induction or $250 Rebate for Radiant" "Dehumidifier Turn-in: $30 Rebate" — "*Limit two dehumidifier turn-in rebates per residential electric account per calendar year." "Recycle Refrigerators and Freezers – Get a $75 Rebate" — "no-cost pickup and removal, plus a $75 rebate"
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim — "Room Air Conditioner: $40 Rebate" — "*Limit two rebates per account per calendar year." "Clothes Dryer: $50 Standard Electric Dryer Rebate or $200 Heat Pump Dryer Rebate" — "*Limit one rebate per account per calendar year." "Electric Stove: $500 Rebate for Induction or $250 Rebate for Radiant" "Dehumidifier Turn-in: $30 Rebate" — "*Limit two dehumidifier turn-in rebates per residential electric account per calendar year." "Recycle Refrigerators and Freezers – Get a $75 Rebate" — "no-cost pickup and removal, plus a $75 rebate"”
Our energy expert: Each of these is a per-item rebate with a per-account annual limit, so the useful question is not what one appliance earns but how many you can claim in a calendar year — room ACs and dehumidifier turn-ins are capped at two, the dryer at one. Induction pays substantially more than radiant on the stove line, which is worth knowing before you shop rather than after. Fridge and freezer recycling comes with free pickup on top of the rebate, so the old unit does not become your problem. Keep the receipt and the model number; both are required on the application.
Insulation & Air Sealing (commercial)
Estimated benefit: "Renter/Landlord Offer | Turnkey | Up to 100%"; "Non-Profit Offer | Turnkey | Up to 100%"; "Business Energy Assessment | Turnkey | Up to 70%"; "Customer Directed Option | CDO Application | Up to 70%"; "Rebate Application | Prescriptive Application | Attic, Wall, and Basement Insulation; Attic Air Sealingk and Exterior Door Weatherstripping. Amount amounts vary, see application for details."
Timing: Ongoing — no published end date
“verbatim table — "Renter/Landlord Offer | Turnkey | Up to 100%"; "Non-Profit Offer | Turnkey | Up to 100%"; "Business Energy Assessment | Turnkey | Up to 70%"; "Customer Directed Option | CDO Application | Up to 70%"; "Rebate Application | Prescriptive Application | Attic, Wall, and Basement Insulation; Attic Air Sealingk and Exterior Door Weatherstripping. Amount amounts vary, see application for details."”
Our energy expert: Coverage on commercial insulation and air sealing depends on which route your property takes — renter or landlord, non-profit, a business energy assessment, or the Customer Directed Option — and non-profits and renters sit at the top of that list at up to full coverage. Per-unit prescriptive rates come off the statewide Mass Save business weatherization schedule, which publishes a square-foot rate for insulation and an hourly rate for attic air sealing; the Compact's own residential air sealing rate is higher than the statewide one, so do not assume a single number covers both sides of a portfolio. Prescriptive and the Customer Directed Option are separate applications with separate ceilings, and you pick one. Have the assessment done first and let it tell you which route pays more on your building.
Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD) 1 program
Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD) Residential and Small Commercial Solar Rebate (under 20 kW)
Estimated benefit: $1,200 per kilowatt.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Residential & Small Commercial Solar Rebate (<20 kW) | $1,200 per kilowatt”
Our energy expert: Reading pays by far the largest solar rebate in the Massachusetts set on a per-kilowatt basis, and it covers small commercial as well as residential systems under 20 kW. That 20 kW ceiling is the limit to design around — it is a program boundary rather than a soft cap, and a system sized above it is in different territory. Because RMLD is a municipal light plant, its interconnection and net metering terms are its own and are not the statewide ones, so the rebate is only part of the economics. Have a solar professional confirm RMLD's interconnection terms before you size the array.
Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant (TMLP) 1 program
TMLP Saves — EV, appliance, weatherization, assessments and commercial
Estimated benefit: Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant runs its programs under the name TMLP Saves: an EV Program, Home and Outdoor Appliance Rebate, Home Energy Assessment, Weatherization Rebate Program, a Multi-Unit Dwelling Pilot Program, a Home Modernization Navigator Pilot Program for Taunton residents, Commercial Energy Assessment and Commercial Net Metering. TMLP restructured TMLP Saves into a hub with one page per program in 2026 and the per-measure amounts now live on those individual pages rather than on the hub. Two rules that apply across all of them are published in TMLP's General Terms & Conditions: gas customers are not eligible for TMLP incentives and should apply through Mass Save, and an account must have been active for six months and carry no past-due balance both when the application is made and when the rebate is issued.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-28; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“"Unless otherwise specified in the specific program requirements, gas customers are ineligible to participate in the TMLP incentive programs and should apply for incentives through Mass Save." and "Customer accounts must be active for six (6) months and be in good standing with NO past due balance at time of application AND when rebate is issued." — General Terms & Conditions, Energy Efficiency, Conservation, And Electrification Program Requirements, Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant, effective 4 October 2024, p. 1.”
Our energy expert: Two rules cut across every TMLP Saves program and decide eligibility before any amount matters: customers heating with gas are not eligible for TMLP incentives and should apply through Mass Save instead, and the account must have been active six months with no past-due balance both when you apply and when the rebate is issued. TMLP reorganised these programs into one page per offering in 2026, so the per-measure amounts sit on the individual program pages — read the page for the measure you want rather than the hub. Two of them are new and easy to miss: a multi-unit dwelling pilot and a Home Modernization Navigator pilot for Taunton residents. Start with the home energy assessment and ask which pilot, if any, you fall into.
Other administrators 2 programs
Danvers Electric Energy Conservation Rebates — Town of Danvers Electric Division
Estimated benefit: Weatherization: air sealing $500, insulation $1,000, with no rebate exceeding 50% of the total purchase price excluding tax and a home energy assessment required first. Cordless electric lawn equipment: riding mower $200, push mower $150, snow blower $200, pressure washer $50, chain and pole saw $50, string trimmer/edger $40, hedge trimmer $40, leaf blower $40, rototiller $40. Dehumidifier $25. E-bike $500 capped at 50% of purchase price.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-26; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“"Please note, all rebates are not to exceed 50% of the total purchase price excluding tax." and "$500 - Air Sealing: A home energy assessment is required prior to applying for a DED weatherization rebate." — danversma.gov Energy Conservation and Rebates, read 2026-10-04.”
Our energy expert: Danvers requires a home energy assessment before any weatherization rebate pays, and no rebate exceeds half the purchase price excluding tax — the assessment and your own share are both fixed conditions rather than fine print. The lawn and yard equipment list is one of the longest published by any Massachusetts municipal, priced item by item, and the e-bike rebate is capped at half the purchase price. Heat pump and EV charger amounts for Danvers customers are published on Energy New England's Danvers schedule rather than on the town page, and the heat pump rate rose for 2026, so read that page for those measures. Book the assessment first — everything on the weatherization side depends on it.
ReSource Ipswich — Ipswich Electric Light Department (IELD)
Estimated benefit: Ipswich Electric Light Department runs its incentive suite under the name ReSource Ipswich, and the Ipswich Water Department runs a separate WaterSense set. Heat pumps: air source $500 per ton up to $2,000 for a partial-home replacement, $750 per ton up to $3,000 whole-home with proof of removal, plus a moderate-income adder of $250 per ton taking the maximum to $5,000; ground source $2,000. Weatherization: air sealing, blower door testing and insulation at 75% up to $2,000, rising to 75% up to $5,000 when combined with an air source heat pump installed within six months, and 100% up to $5,000 for moderate-income households. Appliances: heat pump water heater, heat pump clothes dryer, heat pump combination washer/dryer and induction range or cooktop replacing gas or propane $500 each; heat pump pool heater $250; Wi-Fi thermostat and mini-split HVAC controls 50% up to $125; variable-speed pool pump and induction range or cooktop replacing electric $100 each; electric combination washer/dryer $75; clothes washer, electric clothes dryer and refrigerator $50 each; air purifier and room air conditioner $40 each; dehumidifier $30. Electric yard equipment: riding mower, push mower and snow blower $100 each, miscellaneous equipment $20. Electric vehicle chargers: free up to $700 with a fully electric vehicle, $300 for a plug-in hybrid over 15 kWh battery capacity, $200 under. WaterSense (Ipswich Water Department): low-flow toilet $100; irrigation controllers 25% up to $100; showerhead, bathroom faucet, spray sprinkler bodies and pre-rinse spray valves 25% up to $50 each, one rebate per customer every three years. Ipswich is a member utility of MMWEC and is one of only two NextZero towns that run a solar rebate; the NextZero solar rebate is $0.80 per watt capped at 50% of total installed cost, and the town's Solar PV page routes applicants to nextzero.org for it.
Timing: Open as of 2026-08-28; confirm the current deadline with the administrator.
“Ipswich Electric Light Department (IELD) customers can schedule two no-cost assessments to start saving energy and money.”
Our energy expert: Ipswich runs its incentives under the name ReSource Ipswich, and the per-measure schedule is published on the town's rebates and incentives page — read it there, because the amounts are what decide any of these choices. Ipswich is one of only two NextZero towns with a solar rebate, paid per watt and capped at half the total installed cost, which makes it materially different from its neighbors on solar. As a municipal light plant customer you are outside Mass Save, so statewide figures do not apply to you. Get the no-cost audit booked first, then price against Ipswich's own current schedule.