DCSEU lists electrification rebates for installs from 2026-10-01; confirm current amounts and terms at https://www.dcseu.com/residential-rebates/electrify (fetched 2026-10-07).
The offer is available to all DC residents, regardless of income. Rebates are subject to change. Rebates for products installed after 09/30/27 are subject to change.
Rebates and Paperwork
DCSEU serves DC electric and gas customers. It is not a Pepco program, though Pepco delivers the power. The wires company and the incentive company are different entities here, a division unpacked in the Pepco guide. A District address, Capitol Hill to Tenleytown, Anacostia to Chevy Chase DC, confirms DCSEU. A Maryland address, Bethesda, Silver Spring, College Park, Bowie, claims that address's own utility programs. The claim follows the address, not the metro.
Source: https://www.dcseu.com/residential-rebates/electrify, fetched 2026-10-07. Rebates subject to change.
Pepco customers: check dcseu.com for current heat pump rebates.
The contractor guide treats a closed-program citation as a vetting tell.
Electrical Work, Priced Up Front
Electrification projects in DC's older stock routinely hit an electrical wall. The rowhouse blocks of Capitol Hill, Shaw, Petworth, and Columbia Heights carry their share of 60 and 100 amp panels, and a multi-zone heat pump can force new circuits or a panel upgrade. Have every bidder open the panel at the site visit and price the electrical work explicitly. Our installation cost guide explains what drives the price, including the panel.
What to Ask About the Equipment
Ask what the machine's published heating capacity is at low temperature. In this climate the winters run cold. The equipment logic lives in the cold-weather guide.
Example
A Petworth rowhouse retiring window units and a tired furnace: three ductless zones and two new circuits to feed the heads. Price the equipment, the heads, and the electrical work as their own lines. Confirm any DCSEU amount at https://www.dcseu.com/residential-rebates/electrify before subtracting it. The project shape is the one in the installation cost guide.
The Two-Sided Metro, Claimed by Address
The carve this storefront serves runs from the District across Montgomery and Prince Georges counties, and the paperwork river between them matters more than the Potomac. A Bethesda or Silver Spring or Hyattsville project is a Maryland project: it claims Maryland-side utility programs, confirmed at quote time with the program itself. The reverse holds too: a Capitol Hill or Brookland address should never let a bidder quote it against suburban assumptions. The habit that prevents every version of this error is the same one sentence: the address on the bill names the program, and the quote should name it back, in writing, before anyone signs.
Renters and the Rowhouse Landlord
A large share of the District's rowhouse stock is tenant-occupied, and any paperwork follows the account holder and property owner. Tenants cannot record a utility application themselves, but forwarding this page to an owner is often useful when a radiator or a window unit is the complaint.
Confirm the Line Before You Subtract
If a quote names a DCSEU amount, stop and open the DCSEU page. Rebates are subject to change.
The heavy-up line and the circuit line are electrical work. The circuit amount applies when the project replaces gas or oil equipment. Ask the bidder to price that work as its own line, then confirm the DCSEU figure beside it.
A Maryland address does not use this table. Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Hyattsville follow Maryland programs. The address on the bill names the program.
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