What ended
The 2025 budget law (Public Law 119-21) ended several credits early:
- Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit (25C): heat pumps, insulation, windows, doors, energy audits. Ended for property placed in service after Dec 31, 2025.
- Residential Clean Energy Credit (25D): rooftop solar and home batteries. Ended for spending after Dec 31, 2025.
- Clean vehicle credits (30D and 25E): new and used EVs acquired after Sept 30, 2025.
- Alternative fuel refueling property credit (30C): home EV chargers placed in service after June 30, 2026.
If you finished qualifying work in 2025 and didn’t claim it, you may still be able to claim it for that tax year. Ask a tax preparer.
What's left
Home Energy Rebates (HOMES and HEAR). These rebates were funded by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act and weren’t repealed, but each state runs its own program, with income limits, and money is first come, first served. When state program pages were checked on Oct 12, 2026, these were taking applications for at least one of the two:
- Arizona
- District of Columbia
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Maine
- Michigan
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- Rhode Island
- Wisconsin
Rules tightened in 2026: new federal guidance put insulation and air sealing first and ended some fuel-switching rebates. Most other states hadn’t launched. Check your state energy office before you buy anything; rebates generally don’t pay for work done before a program opens.
Utility rebates. Many utilities still pay for smart thermostats, heat pump water heaters, heat pumps and EV chargers, and some give a discount for enrolling a thermostat or charger in a demand-response program. Search your utility’s name plus “rebates”.
State programs. Some states run their own incentives on top of the federal ones. DSIRE lists them by state; the Alternative Fuels Data Center lists EV charger incentives.