High-Efficiency Electric Home Rebate Program: This program allocates $4.5B for state-level rebates for home electrification investments, specifically for low and moderate-income households.

The following are excerpts from the White House’s Inflation Reduction Act Guidebook. (Some parts have been lightly edited for brevity, but the section titles are preserved to allow easily referencing the full guidebook.) Please note that not all households are eligible for all credits and rebates. Consult with state-specific program specialists, tax accountants, and energy professionals about potential savings for your household.

For a more visual representation of the IRA’s incentives, check out the Inflation Reduction Act Infographic.

Financing and Expediting Deployment of Clean Energy Technologies

• $27 billion for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for competitive grants for clean energy and climate projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with an emphasis on projects that benefit low-income and disadvantaged communities.
• $40 billion to guarantee loans for projects utilizing innovative clean energy technologies, including renewable energy systems, carbon capture, nuclear energy, and critical minerals processing, manufacturing, and recycling.

Incentivizing and Supporting Deployment of Clean Vehicles

• Clean Vehicle Credit for consumers purchasing new qualifying clean vehicles, including battery electric, plug-in hybrid, or fuel cell electric vehicles.
• Previously Owned Clean Vehicles Credit (up to $4,000) to support used vehicle buyers who choose to go electric.

Lowering Energy Costs for Households

The Inflation Reduction Act empowers and equips homeowners who want to make upgrades so they can save energy and reduce their energy costs. Families can save money on their monthly energy bills by choosing energy-efficient appliances that use less electricity. They can fix inefficiencies, like drafty windows and poor insulation, that lead to energy waste. New tax credits and deductions in the Inflation Reduction Act can reduce the cost of energy-efficient home upgrades, including heat pumps and other appliances, windows, doors, and more; offset the cost of adding residential clean energy sources, including solar panels and battery storage; and make constructing energy-efficient single- and multi-family homes cheaper and easier. The law also includes nearly $9 billion for consumer home energy rebate programs to electrify home appliances and perform energy efficient retrofits, with a focus on low-income consumers.

Highlights include:

• Nearly $9 billion for states and tribes for consumer home energy rebate programs, enabling communities to make homes more energy-efficient, upgrade to electric appliances, and cut energy costs. The Department of Energy estimates that these historic home energy efficiency and electrification consumer rebates, targeted to lower-income consumers, will save households up to $1 billion annually.
• The Energy Efficiency Home Improvement Credit provides up to $3,200 annually in tax credits to lower the cost of energy efficient upgrades by up to 30 percent, including the purchase of heat pumps, insulation, efficient doors and windows, electrical panel upgrades, and energy audits. Heat pumps alone can save households up to $500 in energy costs every year.
• The Residential Clean Energy Credit provides a 30-percent tax credit to lower the installation cost of residential clean energy, including rooftop solar, wind, geothermal, and battery storage.
• The New Energy Efficient Home Credit provides up to $5,000 in tax credits for each new energy-efficient home and up to $1,000 for each unit in a multi-family building. This credit incentivizes builders to lower monthly energy costs for future owners and renters.

Supporting Investment in Energy-Efficient and Low-Carbon Buildings

The Inflation Reduction Act provides tax incentives, grants, and loans to make commercial and residential buildings, including federally assisted housing, more energy efficient and resilient to the impacts of a warming climate.

Highlights include:

• $1 billion for the Green and Resilient Retrofit Program at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which will provide funding to the owners of HUD-assisted multifamily properties for projects to improve energy or water efficiency; enhance indoor air quality or sustainability; implement the use of zero-emission electricity generation, low-emission building materials or processes, energy storage, or building electrification strategies; or make the properties more resilient to climate impacts.
• Extension and expansion of the energy efficient commercial buildings deduction. Buildings that increase their energy efficiency by at least 25 percent will be able to claim this tax deduction, with bonuses for higher efficiency improvements.

Investing in Affordable and Reliable Clean Energy in Rural America and on Tribal Lands

The IRA provides more than $12 billion to partner with rural and tribal communities to help them access more clean energy, make their energy systems more reliable and resilient, and lower their electricity costs.

Highlights include:

• $9.7 billion to support rural electric cooperatives that achieve greenhouse gas emissions reductions by making energy efficiency improvements to electric generation and transmission systems or purchasing and deploying clean energy and carbon capture and storage systems.
• $1 billion for electric infrastructure loans for renewable energy in rural America, which will finance the construction of distribution, transmission, and generation facilities for renewable electricity (from solar, wind, hydropower, biomass, or geothermal), including system improvements and replacements to improve service in rural areas, as well as demand side management, energy conservation, and renewable energy systems.
• More than $2 billion to expand USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program, which provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or energy efficiency improvements.
• $150 million for tribes and tribal organizations to support the powering of unelectrified tribal homes with zero-emissions energy systems and retrofitting of already electrified tribal homes to zero-emissions systems.

Cutting Air Pollution that Harms Public Health and the Climate

The Inflation Reduction Act provides billions of dollars to tribes, states, local governments, community organizations, and others to cut greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants from targeted local sources, particularly in areas with environmental justice concerns.

Highlights include:

• $3 billion for Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants for community-based organizations to reduce indoor and outdoor air pollution, including greenhouse gases; monitor for pollution; improve community resilience to the impacts of climate change, including extreme heat and wildfire; and build the capacity of these organizations to engage with state and federal decision-making processes.
• $5 billion for Climate Pollution Reduction Grants for tribes, states, air-pollution-control agencies, and local governments to develop and implement plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
• More than $3.2 billion for the Neighborhood Access and Equity Grant Program to support projects to improve walkability, safety, and affordable transportation access in communities; to clean up existing and prevent new environmental harms caused by transportation projects in disadvantaged communities; and to provide planning and capacity building support to disadvantaged and underserved communities.

For a more visual representation of the IRA’s incentives, check out the Inflation Reduction Act Infographic.

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