Virginia DMME Rebate Information

Virginia Super Efficient Home Appliance Rebate Program

(click on the link above to visit the DMME Rebate website.)

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
Super Efficient Home Appliance Rebate Program Closure on January 20, 2012
to New Applicants

The Super Efficient Home Appliance Rebate Program will be closed to new applicants on Friday, January 20, 2012. We will not accept any new application reservations for rebates after 5:00 p.m. on that date. The following restrictions will apply to those applications:

1. You will have 30 days to complete your selected project items from the date you are approved
2. You must redeem the rebate in the system by your 30-day deadline to avoid rebate cancellation
3. You must mail your claim information to DMME’s Division of Energy as soon as possible after you redeem the rebate in the system, but no later than March 1, 2012.
4. Any rebate claims received that are postmarked after March 1, 2012 will be returned to the sender and no rebate will be issued for that claim.

An applicant who is currently in the “approved” status is encouraged to redeem your rebate in the system as soon as possible. Once you are in the “payment pending” status, you should mail in your claim to us by March 1, 2012.

To facilitate the rapid processing of your claim, please include the following documents and information in the paperwork you mail to us:

1. Bar coded summary page you print during the rebate redemption process
2. Applicant Signature Page
3. Invoice including model number and date of purchase of your new appliance or system
4. AHRI certificate or Energy Star proof of purchase, depending on the item purchased

If ANY document is missing from your claim, it will slow down the rebate approval process and your rebate could be cancelled or rejected.

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation with these restrictions as we transition to the rebate program’s closure stage. Thank you for your participation in the Super Efficient Home Appliance Rebate Program.

Waiting List -- What does that mean?
Rebate reservation requests that are received after all available funds have been reserved are entered into a waiting list or queue in the order that they were received. Those wait-listed reservations may be approved in that order as rebate funding becomes available. Even though all available funds have been reserved, applicants with approved reservations sometimes redeem a lower amount of funds than their reservation allows, or redeem no rebate amount at all. Some approved reservations are subsequently rejected because items do not meet program requirements, or applicants are unable to supply proper documentation. Each of these events makes additional funds available and allows us to approve reservation requests on the wait list.

DMME cannot speculate on when or whether a wait listed reservation request might be approved or disclose to a wait listed applicant their ranking on the wait list. DMME will allow the wait list to grow to a size that should be large enough to ensure that there are enough applicants in line to allow DMME to reallocate funds that are not used by approved applicants (based on the percent of such “breakage” learned from 18 months of experience). DMME will close the program to new applications when the wait list is large enough to ensure that Virginia citizens can use all of the available funds. When all funds are awarded, if there are applicants still on the wait list, DMME will notify them by email that the program is closed and no funds are available.

2012 Federal Tax Credit Information

Important Information:

We are hopeful they will Reinstate the Tax Credit for 2012. If so, it will or should be retro active to January 1st. We will keep checking and providing updates each week on any changes as the information becomes available.

2011 Federal Tax Credit Extension

As part of the recently passed tax bill, the 25C tax extension for residential high efficiency property has been extended for one year. The maximum tax credit that can be claimed has been reduced from $1500 to $500 for 2011. In addition, the 2011 tax credits have placed maximum amounts that can be claimed for the various components of the HVAC system, such as a $150 maximum tax credit for a 95% gas furnace and $300 for an air conditioner or heat pump. These component maximum amounts are additive to the $500 maximum lifetime tax credit.

Most of the HVAC qualifying efficiency levels have remained the same. The only exceptions are boilers and oil furnaces, where the qualifying efficiency has been increased from 90 AFUE to 95 AFUE. The following chart summarizes the difference between the 2009-10 tax credits and the newly passed 2011 tax credits. Changes in the tax credits for 2011 are highlighted in red