Home battery incentives: which programs are open, checked 8 Nov 2026
Of the 10 programs below, 7 accept applications, 2 are closed and 1 is open in some territories only. Every row comes from the program's own page or its official enrollment site, opened on the date shown. Programs whose page we could not open are listed separately and carry no amounts.
Data as of 8 Nov 2026, source: official program pages linked in each row
The ledger
| Program | Amount as published | Status | Checked | Official page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California SGIP, ratepayer budgets (Small Residential Storage, RSSE ratepayer, others) California, PG&E, SCE, SoCalGas and CSE territories | No amount read for this row. Rate is in the SGIP Handbook. Single-family projects have a 30 kWh incentive cap in the storage budgets (SGIP notice, 18 Feb 2025). | Closed. Closed to new applications. Last submit date 30 Dec 2025; waitlisted applications were cancelled on 31 Dec 2025. | 8 Nov 2026 | selfgenca.com, statewide announcements (15 Dec 2025 and 21 Jan 2026 notices) |
| California SGIP, AB 209 Residential Solar and Storage Equity California, income-qualified households | No amount read for this row. Rate is in the SGIP Handbook. Per the 21 Jan 2026 notice, the demand-response requirement is removed for this budget and the performance-based payment period is 2 years instead of 5 for projects entering it on or after 31 Dec 2025. | Partly open. Open in some territories, waitlist in others. New AB 209 applications are accepted until 30 Jun 2028. The tracker of 7 Nov 2026 shows Open for PG&E (non-POU) and SCE (POU) and Waitlist for the other territory budgets we could match. | 8 Nov 2026 | selfgenca.com, program metrics (tracker dated 7 Nov 2026) |
| Connecticut Energy Storage Solutions Connecticut, Eversource and UI customers | Applications from 1 Apr 2026: enrollment incentive $30/kWh (standard) or $130/kWh (grid-edge), plus performance incentives of $300/kW (standard), $450/kW (underserved) or $550/kW (low income). The program's own 20 kW / 30 kWh example for a standard home shows $900 enrollment plus $18,000 performance. Before 1 Apr 2026 the upfront incentive was capped at $16,000 per project. | Open. Open. The new structure applies to enrollment applications on or after 1 Apr 2026. The FAQ says the program is at Incentive Step 1. | 8 Nov 2026 | energystoragect.com, program changes effective 1 Apr 2026 and homeowner FAQ |
| Green Mountain Power, Bring Your Own Device Vermont, GMP customers | $850/kW of enrolled storage for a 3 hour discharge, $950/kW for 4 hours, up to $10,500. An extra $100/kW applies to a retrofit of an existing solar system in priority areas. | Open. Open. Enrollment link is live. The page lists Tesla Powerwall 2.0 and 3.0, Enphase IQ Battery, FranklinWH, Fortress, Savant, SolarEdge StorEdge compatible systems and others. | 8 Nov 2026 | greenmountainpower.com, Bring Your Own Device |
| National Grid ConnectedSolutions batteries Massachusetts, National Grid electric customers | $275 per average kW delivered across summer events. The program FAQ says a typical home battery contributes up to 6 kW, which it prices at $1,650 for the summer. | Open. Open. Enrollment is through the program FAQ site; no closing date is stated. Mass Save's own page returned HTTP 403, so the figure rests on the program operator's FAQ. | 8 Nov 2026 | greatergrid.com, National Grid ConnectedSolutions FAQ |
| Eversource ConnectedSolutions batteries Massachusetts, with New Hampshire and Connecticut rates on the same FAQ | $275/kW average across events in Massachusetts; $400/kW in select Greater Boston areas; an extra $100/kW in spring and fall in Southeastern Massachusetts; $225/kW in New Hampshire and Connecticut. | Open. Open. Enrollment is through the program FAQ site; no closing date is stated. | 8 Nov 2026 | greatergrid.com, Eversource ConnectedSolutions FAQ |
| Xcel Energy Renewable Battery Connect Colorado, Xcel Energy customers | Upfront $250 per kW AC of maximum continuous discharge power, up to $5,000 per application. Income qualified $1,000/kW and disproportionately impacted communities $500/kW, both up to 75% of equipment-only cost. Plus $100 a year for 5 years for taking part in control events. | Open. Open as listed; no closing date on the page. Eligible equipment is all Tesla Powerwall models or all current Enphase models. | 8 Nov 2026 | co.my.xcelenergy.com, Renewable Battery Connect |
| Oregon Solar + Storage Rebate Program Oregon, through ODOE-approved contractors | Up to $2,500 for an energy storage system (up to $5,000 for solar). Rebates go to the contractor, who passes them on. | Closed. Not accepting reservations. After reopening on 15 Jun 2026, applications fully reserved the $1.1 million made available (ODOE June 2026 update). | 8 Nov 2026 | oregon.gov/energy, Solar + Storage Rebate Program for homeowners |
| Maryland Residential and Commercial Energy Storage Program (FY27) Maryland, statewide | 30% of total project cost, up to $5,000 for a residential property. Budget up to $4,000,000. | Open. Open, first come first served. Funding announcement issued 24 Sep 2026; application deadline 3:00 PM Eastern, 31 May 2027, and the portal may close earlier if funds run out. | 8 Nov 2026 | energy.maryland.gov, FY27 RCES funding opportunity announcement (PDF) |
| LUMA Customer Battery Energy Sharing (CBES) Puerto Rico, owners of Enphase IQ Batteries with an active net metering contract | $1.00 for every kWh delivered during demand response events, paid quarterly. The page expects 75 to 100 events a year of about two hours each. | Open. Open on the enrollment page; rates are locked until program funding runs out. Leased batteries are excluded. | 8 Nov 2026 | luma.virtualpeaker.io, CBES enrollment page |
Amounts are copied as each program prints them and are not adjusted. "Checked" is the day we opened the page. The SGIP tracker row uses the tracker's own date, 7 Nov 2026, and the Maryland row uses the date of its announcement. Programs change without notice and the official page controls.
Dates that decide eligibility
How to read the amounts
The programs pay in different ways, so the numbers do not add up across rows. Maryland and Oregon pay a rebate on the purchase. Connecticut pays a smaller enrollment amount and then performance payments. Green Mountain Power and Xcel Energy pay mostly up front per kW of battery output you enroll. The Massachusetts programs and Puerto Rico pay for energy your battery delivers during grid events, so the total depends on how large the battery is and how many events it serves.
Most of these programs let the utility discharge your battery during peaks, which can reduce the charge left for an outage. Green Mountain Power and National Grid both state that they adjust or skip events ahead of forecast storms, and Xcel says storm mode overrides event commands. Read the terms of the program you join. Connecting a battery needs a licensed electrician and local permits, and the utility has its own interconnection steps.
A federal credit used to sit on top of these. It does not apply to batteries finished after 31 Dec 2025, as the federal credit status page explains. For list prices these programs are meant to offset, see home battery cost, and to check whether a given model appears on a program's equipment list, start from the battery comparison. As one example, Green Mountain Power lists both Powerwall 3 and Enphase IQ Battery, which are the two models in our side by side.
Could not verify
These programs exist or may exist. We could not open a current official page on 8 Nov 2026, so we print no amount and no status for them.
- Mass Save ConnectedSolutions batteries. Masssave.com returned HTTP 403 with a bot challenge. Page we tried
- Hawaiian Electric battery programs. Hawaiianelectric.com returned HTTP 403. Page we tried
- PSEG Long Island Battery Storage Rewards. Psegliny.com returned a service-unavailable page. Page we tried
- NYSERDA residential storage incentives. Nyserda.ny.gov showed a bot challenge. Page we tried
- New Jersey Garden State Energy Storage Program. The page address we tried returned HTTP 404 and we did not find a current one.
- PG&E and SCE own battery pages. Pge.com returned Access Denied; SCE not opened. Their SGIP role is covered by the two SGIP rows.
- NV Energy residential storage incentive. Only an older incentives handbook could be read, which does not show whether the program is open now.
What this page does not cover
It is not a complete list of U.S. programs, and nothing here says what you would qualify for. Eligibility, income limits, equipment lists and funding step levels sit in each program's terms. Some third party pages still show older amounts: for example, EnergySage's cost page, updated 13 Jul 2026, still says Connecticut residents can get up to $16,000, which matches the per-project upfront cap that applied before 1 Apr 2026. Each row rests on one page, the program's own or its operator's, and we did not find a second independent source for the amounts, so treat every amount as a single-source figure until the program confirms it. This is not tax or financial advice. The full document list is on sources.