About

This site tracks what a household in the United States can actually claim for energy work on their home or car, and how long that is likely to stay true.

Why this needed making

Through 2025 and 2026 the federal credits that everybody wrote about came to an end. The 30% residential credit for solar stopped applying to systems placed in service after December 31, 2025. The credit covering heat pumps, insulation and windows ended on the same day. The vehicle credits had already gone. None of that removed a single article from the internet.

What replaced them is harder to write about and much more useful to know: state programs, utility rebates, and federally funded rebates that each state runs on its own schedule. Many are first come, first served. A program can stop taking applications in the middle of a week because the money ran out, and nothing anywhere will say so except the page that administers it.

So every page has a date on it

Not the publication date. Not a "2026" in the headline. The day someone opened the program's own page and read the amount off it. When a figure could not be confirmed, the page says that rather than repeating a number from somewhere else and hoping.

That is the entire product. Anyone can list rebates. The hard part, and the part that decides whether a page is worth anything, is knowing whether the list is still true this week.

Where the numbers come from

The body that runs the program: a state energy office, a utility's own rebate page, the Department of Energy, the IRS. Those links sit at the foot of every article and are tagged so you can see how much of a page rests on them.

In this field a figure gets copied from an installer to an aggregator to a blog until it is on forty sites and traceable to none. Where a program's own pages contradict each other, and they do, the article says so instead of quietly picking the more convenient one.

Who runs it

One person, working from outside the United States. There is no newsroom here and no pretence of one. You will not find installation advice or personal anecdotes: what this site reports is what the programs publish, and the work that matters is going back to those pages and noticing the week one of them changes. How the checking works is written out on How we check.

Nothing here is tax advice

This site reports what programs say about themselves: who is eligible, how much, by when, and whether applications are open. Whether a particular credit applies to your return is a question for a tax professional, and whether your house qualifies is a question for the program.

How it pays for itself

Advertising, and eventually some affiliate links, which will be labeled on any page that carries them. They do not get to pick the recommendation. Where the cheaper route pays nothing and the expensive one pays well, the page still says which is cheaper.

Corrections

If something here is wrong or has gone out of date, please say so. A site that stakes everything on being current is only as good as the people who tell it when it slips. Contact.