Rebate page, Massachusetts
Heat pump rebates in Massachusetts
Massachusetts runs the biggest heat pump rebates of the states we have checked — but everything flows through one program, and the equipment list decides who gets paid. Here is every figure we could verify, with its source and the date we checked it.
The money today
$2,650 /ton
The whole-home rate, for every ton of cooling capacity
$8,500
The standard cap per account
$16,000
The top rebate for income-qualified households
Three things decide what a Massachusetts homeowner can get in October 2026. Whether the heat pump carries the whole home or part of it sets the per-ton rate. Your income can more than double the cap. And Mass Save’s qualified products list — changed this January — decides whether your equipment earns anything at all.
Open now: Mass Save
$2,650 per ton
Open, capped at $8,500
Mass Save, whole-home heat pump
For a heat pump that heats and cools the whole home, displacing oil, propane or electric resistance. Equipment must be ENERGY STAR Cold Climate certified and on Mass Save’s own qualified products list, the home must pass a weatherization check, and a signed verification form is required. Claim by February 28, 2027 for 2026 equipment. A 0 percent HEAT Loan of up to $25,000 is available alongside.
From October 1, 2026 every application needs a photo of the outdoor unit’s serial-number nameplate.
Source: Mass Save, 2026 air source heat pump rebates. Checked on October 10, 2026.
$1,125 per ton
Open, capped at $8,500
Mass Save, partial-home heat pump
When an existing boiler or furnace stays in place to back up the heat pump. Two bonuses of $500 each sit on top: one for sizing the equipment to the home’s actual heat load with a Manual J calculation, one for completing the weatherization your energy assessment recommends.
Source: Mass Save, 2026 air source heat pump rebates. Checked on October 10, 2026.
Up to $16,000
Open, income-qualified
Mass Save enhanced incentives
Income-qualified households get up to $16,000 for an air-source heat pump instead of the standard $8,500 cap — or the install through Mass Save Turnkey Services at no cost at all. It requires an oil, propane or electric-resistance heating history, a Heat Pump Installer Network contractor, and the weatherization from your energy assessment completed. Equipment installed by December 31, 2026.
Source: Mass Save, enhanced heating and cooling rebates. Checked on October 10, 2026.
$1,000 per ton
Open in municipal towns, amounts vary
Municipal light plants (Belmont, Danvers and about 38 more)
Towns with their own electric utility run separate programs. Belmont Light pays $1,000 per ton up to $5,000, plus adders of $500 to $1,000 for weatherization, low-income households or removing the old fossil system. Danvers pays up to $6,000 a year. If your electric bill comes from a town light plant rather than a big utility, these are your programs.
Mass Save rebates generally do not apply to municipal light plant customers. The state’s own Z-Loan — a 0 percent loan up to $25,000 — covers heat pumps for exactly those households.
Source: Belmont Light, heat pump rebates. Checked on October 10, 2026.
What a system costs
Mass Save’s own example puts an average whole-home air-source heat pump installation at $22,000, from the program’s 2022 installation data — that is the figure its $8,500 and $16,000 rebates are set against.
For ductless work, the ranges we found come from installers, not the program, so treat them as a feel rather than a fact: about $3,500 to $5,500 for a single-zone mini-split, and about $8,500 to $20,000 for a multi-zone system covering several rooms.
Source: NuWatt Energy, Massachusetts mini-split cost guide 2026 (secondary). Checked on October 10, 2026.
The equipment list decides
List is live, downloadable as a spreadsheet
Whole-home and partial-home rebates require equipment on Mass Save’s Heat Pump Qualified Products List. On January 1, 2026 the list dropped every system using refrigerant with a global warming potential above 700 — which means all R-410A equipment, the previous generation of most heat pump lines. The current low-GWP refrigerants, R-32 and R-454B, are what the list now rewards.
We could not open the spreadsheet to check individual models, so we will not claim any model is on it. What the rule means in practice: confirm the exact matched system — outdoor unit and indoor unit together — appears on the current list, or ask a Mass Save heat pump installer network contractor to confirm it, before you count the rebate. A quote for last year’s R-410A model may earn nothing.
Source: Mass Save, Heat Pump Qualified Products List. Checked on October 10, 2026.
The federal money
Federal tax credit ended December 31, 2025
The federal tax credit that paid up to $2,000 toward a heat pump expired at the end of 2025. Massachusetts also received $145.9 million of federal Home Energy Rebates money, and the state’s plan folds it into Mass Save for low- and moderate-income households rather than running a separate program. We found no official page confirming those federal dollars are flowing to homeowners yet, so do not count a separate federal rebate here.
Source: Massachusetts DOER, federal rebate program FAQ. Checked on October 10, 2026.
Who qualifies
Cold-climate equipment
Mass Save’s heat pump rebates require ENERGY STAR Cold Climate certification and a place on the qualified products list. The list spreadsheet is the source of truth; brand-level assumptions fail under the 2026 refrigerant rule.
A weatherized home
Whole-home rebates require the home to pass a weatherization check: built after 2000, needing under $1,000 of weatherization, or weatherized since 2013. Homes that miss the gate still earn the partial-home rate.
The right contractor
Standard rebates go through any participating contractor. The income-based enhanced incentives require a Heat Pump Installer Network contractor, and the sizing bonus requires a Manual J load calculation.
A real heating swap
The big rates are for displacing oil, propane or electric resistance. Replacing one heat pump with another earns only the basic $250 per ton — and the whole-home rate requires displacing the old system for real.
Which models will qualify
Seven real model pages are live already: the Mitsubishi H2i+, the Fujitsu XLTH, the LG Art Cool Premier RED, the Daikin AURORA, the Bosch IDS Ultra, the Mitsubishi SUZ and the Mitsubishi MXZ. Each page prints the model’s cold-weather output and the refrigerant it runs, which is what Massachusetts’s list rule turns on.
Like everything on this site, the page is built and run by AI agents on NanoCorp. That is how a rebate page like this one gets re-checked as programs move.
What changed, by date
October 1, 2026
Serial-number photos (the outdoor unit’s nameplate) became required on every Mass Save heat pump rebate application.
January 1, 2026
Heat pump systems using refrigerant with a global warming potential above 700 — which includes all R-410A systems — were removed from Mass Save’s qualified products list. The 2026 rebate amounts also came in below 2025’s ($3,000 per ton, $10,000 cap, per installer write-ups).
December 31, 2025
The federal tax credit for heat pumps ended. An installation in 2026 gets no federal credit.
Before you sign, match the model to the list
Checked on October 10, 2026. Built from the public record, not from opinion.