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PSE lists its heat pump rebates on its own pages: $1,500, $2,400 Boost, $4,000 income-qualified from gas

By Ionel Glogoveanu, editor. Every figure on this page was checked against the official source on the date shown.

Published October 4, 2026. Facts read on the official source on October 4, 2026.

Read in full October 4: PSE’s conversion and fuel-switching pages give the amounts, the Trade Ally/REP rule and a 30-day application window; our “reported” flag lifted.

We read Puget Sound Energy’s heat pump rebate pages in full on October 4, 2026 and published a utility page for them. Until today our Washington page carried PSE’s amounts with a flag: they had reached us through contractors, not from a static PSE page. The flag was wrong about the source, not the figures. PSE’s electric resistance conversion page states $1,500 for a qualifying ducted or ductless heat pump and $2,400 with Efficiency Boost; its Moderate-Income Fuel-Switching page states $4,000 for income-qualified single-family customers who replace PSE natural gas heating. Both pages require a PSE Trade Ally or Recommended Energy Professional and say an out-of-network or do-it-yourself installation does not qualify.

The pages also carry rules we had not published: no existing heat pump serving the main living area; ductless systems must be AHRI-certified variable-speed inverter units of at least ¾ ton with one head in the main living area; ducted systems must lock out resistance backup, with 35°F recommended; the gas program requires the old equipment removed or cut and capped and the application filed within 30 days of installation. Three further PSE pages — a $1,500 heat pump upgrade, a $1,500 hybrid rebate and an $8,000 Duvall program — were read only in summary today and are listed as such.

Our Washington page now links the PSE page and no longer calls the amounts reported; the earlier flag stays in the page history as the honest record of what we could verify on September 27.

What this means for you

If you are a PSE electric customer heating with baseboards, wall heaters or an electric furnace, the $1,500 (or $2,400 Boost) rebate exists only through a PSE Trade Ally or REP — confirm the company at 1-800-562-1482 before signing. If you heat with PSE gas and your income qualifies, $4,000 is the number to ask about, with a 30-day clock on the application. Neither rebate has a published end date.