Save up to $4,185 per unit - TECH Clean California - Small Multifamily Unitary and Central Heat Pump Water Heater

REQUIREMENTS:

1. Only available to Small Multifamily properties, retrofits impacting 10 or less units
2. Must be a TECH-enrolled contractor
3. Project must be a non-heat pump to heat pump installation
4. No new construction, retrofits only
5. Customer must enroll in demand response (DR) program
6. Customer must enroll in time-of-use (TOU) program
7. Equipment Requirements

Unitary HPWH

• Must be JA13 compliant per the California Energy Commission (CEC) and either:
  A) NEEA residential HPWH with EcoPort OR
  B) ENERGY STAR Residential WH V4 (or later) with Connected Capability

Central HPWH

• Equipment Requirements:
  A) Standard Central Equipment must be approved and included in CBECC
  B)Unitary or ganged-together unitary Central equipment must be JA13 compliant or ENERGY STAR Commercial WH V 2.0 (or later)

Equity Eligibility Requirements

• 2-4 unit properties must submit an Occupant Based Annual Income through the CCES TECH Income Verification Portal. 
• 5-10+ unit properties/projects, applicants must submit a Property Deed Restriction at time of reservation application, showing that at least 80% of the benefitting units are ≤ 60% AMI.

Incentives
 

• Unitary HPWH:
  • $3,100 to $4,185 per unit for replacing existing multifamily water heaters with unitary heat pumps statewide. Additional incentives from $2,000 to $4,000 are available to support electrical upgrades
• Central HPWH:
  • $900 to $1,000 per kilowatt hour (kWh) statewide for replacing existing multifamily central water heaters with central heat pumps. Additional incentives of $200 per kWh are available for equipment that use refrigerants with a global warming potential of 150 or less.

Budget

• Small Multifamily Projects: $600,000, with $400,000 allocated to equity and $200,000 allocated to market rate projects. There is a hard contractor incentive cap of $90,000 across all small multifamily projects.