Which states have actually launched their rebate programs

Does DOE publish which states have launched their rebates?

No. The two DOE Home Energy Rebates programs (Home Efficiency Rebates under IRA § 50121, and Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates under § 50122) are appropriations, not tax law.

They survived the repeal of the federal residential energy credits (see what happened to the federal tax credit), which makes them the only substantial federal money left for a heat pump.

Whether you can reach that money depends entirely on what your state has done with its allocation, and the answer varies more than any other fact in this subject.

DOE will not tell you. Its program page, retrieved on September 6, 2026, says in full: "Home Energy Rebates are now available in select states. Additional details on active state, territory or Tribal rebate programs are coming soon."

It does not name the select states. It adds: "Contact your State or Territory Energy Office for more information on the status and eligibility requirements."

HYRE analysis: That is a reasonable position for a grant-making agency and an unreasonable one for a household.

It means the question "can I get this" has 51 different answers, each held on a different website, several of which are a year out of date and several of which cannot be read by a machine at all.

The commercial pages that fill the gap mostly reprint the statutory maximum of $14,000, which is a ceiling Congress wrote, not an offer any state is making. Our heat pump rebates guide explains the ceilings and income bands.

So we did the only thing that produces an answer: identified the administering body for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, found its own Home Energy Rebates page, retrieved it on September 6, 2026, and recorded what it says in its own words.

Which states are open, closed or not yet launched?

Most are not yet open. We sorted every jurisdiction into six categories, because five is not enough once you have looked. The bottom one is ours, not the states'.

4 jurisdictions are open to a household with no further qualification beyond the program’s own income test: Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Wisconsin.

North Carolina publishes a live impact dashboard and states it "DEQ launched the Energy Saver NC on January 16, 2025." Georgia runs a participating-contractor list and a public rebates dashboard.

8 more are open only by a narrower route than the statute allows: Arizona, District of Columbia, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Washington. The narrowing takes different forms and each matters to a household.

The District of Columbia folded the money into two existing low-income programs and states that "Federally funded rebates will not be available outside of participation in AHRA or AHEP."

New Jersey did something similar, attaching it to an electrification adder on an existing low-income program. Maine is live only for new affordable multifamily construction and single-family manufactured homes.

Washington awarded its money to local third-party administrators, so availability depends on whether your local administrator’s contract has been finalized.

2 launched early and have already closed or fully committed their single-family money. Colorado, updated August 2026: "The HEAR single-family program is now closed for both Region 1 (the Front Range) and Region 2 (All Other Counties)."

California, on the same program it launched in October 2024: "As of February 24, 2026, HEEHRA rebates for single-family home retrofits are fully reserved statewide." Unapproved requests go on a waitlist.

HYRE analysis: this is the most consequential finding on the page and it is invisible in every list that treats "launched" as a permanent state.

Being an early launcher is not the same as being available now, and a household reading a 2025 article about Colorado’s program is reading about something that has since shut.

8 say plainly that they are not accepting applications (Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont), and several are unusually candid about it.

Kentucky publishes a step-by-step progress tracker of what remains before launch and states: "Please be aware that the Kentucky Home Energy Rebates Program is not yet accepting rebate applications."

Vermont’s page reads: "Please note that rebates are NOT available prior to program launch and rebates cannot be issued retroactively."

19 are still in development, paused, or give no date at all. North Dakota: "Neither Energy Rebate Programs have launched and no rebates are currently available. There is no estimated program launch date."

The same page warns residents that anyone offering these rebates there today is likely running a scam. Utah: "The Utah Home Energy Rebate (HER) program is on hold until further notice."

Texas, which holds the largest single state allocation, states as of August 21, 2026 that "Rebates are not currently available."

And for 10 jurisdictions we could establish no program at all: Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota. That is a statement about our search, not about those states.

A program may exist behind a URL we did not find or a page we could not read. We record it as unestablished rather than absent.

The difference matters: reporting "no program" where we mean "we could not find one" is exactly the error that makes trackers untrustworthy.

How much rebate money can households reach today?

About 22% of it. DOE’s formula allocation to the 50 states and DC is published, and our statistics page already joins it to household counts: $8 million per household on average, with a 7.2 to 1 spread between the top and bottom jurisdiction.

We do not repeat that analysis here. This page asks the question the allocation table cannot answer on its own.

HYRE calculation: joining the allocation to the census above, $6.27 billion of the $8.03 billion allocated (78.1%) sits in jurisdictions where no household can apply for it today. Those jurisdictions contain 77.4% of American households.

The distribution of that stranded money is not random in a way that flatters anyone. Texas holds the largest state allocation and is still in its planning and design phase.

Wyoming has the largest allocation per household of any state, and its page, retrieved on September 6, 2026, still says the program is expected to launch in 2025.

HYRE analysis, stated as a limit on the finding: An allocation is not a rebate and a closed program is not a failed one.

Money can be committed, spent and correctly exhausted, which is what a successful program looks like from the outside. The number above measures reachability on one day, not performance.

What it does establish is that the headline every commercial page leads with, "$14,000 available", describes a statutory ceiling in a jurisdiction where, for roughly four households in five, there is currently no door.