Virginia Rebates

State rebates can be bundled with LEAP's rebates to save you even more money. For example, if you apply for a $595 air sealing and insulation rebate from the state, you can still apply for a $1000 LEAP Home Energy Improvement rebate through our Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program to help underwrite other costs that may be associated with your retrofit (duct sealing, HVAC upgrade).

Attention LEAP customers and local residents: important news! The Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy has opened  two new rebate programs, the Virginia Home Efficiency Rebate Program and the Virginia Geothermal Heat Pump Rebate Program, starting June 20, 2011. Approximately $5 million will be available.

Homeowners will be eligible to reserve rebates for 20 percent of the costs of qualifying energy conserving products and services, up to $595.  Energy audits will be rebated for the cost of the audit, up to $250. Rebates for no more than 20 percent of costs, up to $2,000, will be offered for qualifying geothermal heat pumps.

Applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis until funding has been reserved.  Once all funds are reserved, additional applicants will go onto a waiting list in case all reservation funds are not claimed. The on-line application process will open at noon on June 20 on the DMME website: http://www.dmme.virginia.gov/divisionenergy.shtml.  Rebates will be calculated at 20% of cost for the following eligible project items, up to $595 per residential property address:

• Insulation and air sealing
• Oil furnace
• Gas, propane or oil hot water boiler
• Replacement windows and exterior doors
• Storm doors

Rebates are restricted to Virginia residential property owners. Applicants have 60 days to complete a project once a reservation is approved. Qualifying energy efficient equipment and items purchased and installed on or after March 26, 2010 will be considered for a rebate if all other eligibility requirements are met.

If you received a rebate for specific equipment and items under the previous Energy Efficiency Rebate Program, you cannot apply for a rebate for the same equipment or item under the new Home Efficiency Rebate Program.  However, if for example, you previously received a rebate for 10 windows, and want to install 4 more windows purchased after March 26, 2010, you can apply for a rebate for the additional windows that were not included in the previous rebate.

Please note that the separate Virginia Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program might also be of interest to you. It offers rebates on items not included in the new Virginia Home Efficiency Rebate Program, including central air conditioners, air-source heat pumps, gas/propane furnaces, tankless or storage-style gas/propane water heaters, electric heat pump water heaters, clothes washers, refrigerators, dishwashers and room air conditioners.

Virginia residents can learn how to apply for either rebate program on DMME’s Division of Energy web page: http://www.dmme.virginia.gov/divisionenergy.shtml.

Rebates are great, but how do you know which energy improvements are the ones your home really needs? That they have been installed correctly? That the money you spend will produce the benefits you expect?

If you are a LEAP customer, we take care of these concerns for you. Get the peace of mind you deserve - enroll in our Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program for 20% + energy savings, your Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Certificate, and LEAP's independent quaility assurance check.