No-cost home energy upgrades

To be eligible, a building must meet all of the following criteria.

• Be a single-family home, multifamily building, or manufactured/mobile home.
• Be located in an initial community focus area (see list above), or in a community selected through the forthcoming community application process (see Q8).
• Be built before January 1, 2020.
• Use natural gas, propane, or another fossil fuel as the primary fuel for space heating or water heating.
• In addition, the building occupants must meet the following income criteria.

For single family and manufactured/mobile homes, the home must be occupied by a low-income household. For multifamily properties, 66% of units must be occupied by low-income households. Low-income households are defined as households earning up to 80% of the area median income. Low-income thresholds by county and household size are available from the Department of Housing and Community Development. Required Measures: All retrofits, at minimum, will include the following​: Replace existing gas-fired heating equipment with heat pump HVAC or hot water heating​, After retrofit, the home must have two of the following end-uses electrified​, Space heating (HVAC)​, Water heating​, Cooking (electric range)​, Clothes drying

Ineligible Measures: Solar photovoltaic systems (PV)​, Battery storage not connected to electrified end-use​, Window replacement​, Any new system using natural gas, propane, other fossil fuel​, Installation of electric resistance heating as primary source