Verified against Con Edison's published schedule on September 25, 2026
The Con Edison mini split rebate and Con Edison heat pump rebate pay $3,500 to $11,000 on a residential conversion that takes the fossil fuel heating out, and the $11,000 top rate is the Weatherized Tier rate for a single-family home in a Disadvantaged Community. Buildings with five or more dwelling units run on a separate track, from $5,000 per dwelling unit on the market-rate prescriptive path. The money is an instant discount applied to the install invoice by a participating contractor, not a check you wait on.
Vinco Mechanical is a Con Edison NYS Clean Heat participating contractor, NYC DOB Contractor #022359, in business since 1987. We file the Clean Heat application as part of every qualifying heat pump install. Call (212) 810-0915 or estimate your rebate.
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A Vinco estimate checks the building load, electrical service, routing, equipment eligibility, Con Edison path, and final net price.
This page covers the residential track in depth: single-family homes and buildings with two, three, or four dwelling units. The rates below were verified against Con Edison's published schedule on September 25, 2026, and the program rules come from the NYS Clean Heat Program Manual Version 3, effective September 1, 2026. Buildings with five or more dwelling units, commercial buildings, and geothermal projects run on separate tracks, summarized near the bottom of this page.
Owners of single-family homes and of buildings with two to four dwelling units, on a Con Edison electric account. The program manual defines single family, detached or attached, as a building with one dwelling unit, so the single-family rate belongs to one-unit buildings only. If a project electrifies individual apartments in a building with two to four apartments, the incentive equals the number of apartments multiplied by the relevant per-apartment rate, up to four apartments. A mixed-use building with commercial space on the first floor can apply for up to four dwelling units, and those dwellings qualify only for apartment incentives. The manual asks you to contact the program administrator with the project's details before installation to confirm residential eligibility.
Con Edison labels the two residential paths Option 1 and Option 2. Option 1 takes the full heating load and removes or permanently disables the old fossil fuel system. It carries the top rates, per Con Edison's published schedule.
Option 2 keeps the old heating system and adds integrated controls alongside the heat pump. It pays standard rates only: Con Edison does not offer incentives in the Weatherized Tier for projects that include integrated controls.
In Con Edison's words, incentives are capped at 70% of project costs, or 85% if you're located in a Disadvantaged Community. The cap binds on cheap projects: when total project cost is low, 70% of it, or 85% in a Disadvantaged Community, can land below the table rate. The tables set what a tier pays, the cap sets what a project can collect.
A home that previously received a partial heat pump incentive can still collect the rest. Con Edison offers additional incentives up to $4,000 for a single-family home and up to $1,500 for an apartment when you remove or disable your old fossil fuel heating system.
The headline number people quote, up to $11,000, is real but narrow. It is the Weatherized Tier rate for a single-family home in a Disadvantaged Community, the top row of the Option 1 table. It is not the starting point and not the typical outcome.
One written estimate: equipment, labor, filing, rebate, and the net project cost.
Every answer below leads with the fact that decides the job, and every figure links to the source that publishes it.
The apartment rate, twice. The program manual defines single family as a building with one dwelling unit, so a two-family building that electrifies both apartments draws the per-apartment rate multiplied by two: $7,000 standard, $8,000 in a Disadvantaged Community, $10,000 or $11,000 under the Weatherized Tier. The single-family column applies only to one-unit buildings, detached or attached.
Residential, if the building has four or fewer dwelling units. The dwelling unit count decides the track, not the storefront. Dwellings above first-floor commercial space qualify only for apartment incentives. The manual asks you to contact the program administrator with the project's details before installation to confirm residential eligibility. At five or more dwelling units, mixed-use buildings apply with the dominant use type, determined on a case-by-case basis.
Five dwelling units. One to four dwelling units runs on the residential track with the tables above. Five or more residential units runs on the multifamily track, which pays its own per-dwelling-unit and per-MMBtu rates under its own caps.
No. Option 1 requires the old fossil fuel heating system removed or permanently disabled, and permanent disabling in place counts as decommissioning. What loses the top rate is leaving the old system operable with no integrated controls, because that project fits neither Option 1 nor Option 2.
The contractor. A Con Edison NYS Clean Heat participating contractor submits the application as part of the install, and the incentive comes off your invoice as an instant discount. There is no customer application and no rebate check to wait on. Vinco files the paperwork on every qualifying job, and the discount line appears on the proposal, the contract, and the final invoice.
Because the incentive pays only for equipment the program has verified in cold-climate service. The list is the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships Cold Climate Air Source Heat Pump Product List at ashp.neep.org, and it is not the ENERGY STAR list. ENERGY STAR Cold Climate certification does not prove NEEP listing. NEEP wildcards model numbers, so a full model number search returns zero results and the prefix is the search term. Air-to-water heat pumps sit on a separate NYS Clean Heat AWHP Qualified Product List.
Manual J is the ACCA standard method for calculating how much heating and cooling a specific building loses and gains, and Manual S is the ACCA method that sizes equipment to those loads. Con Edison requires Manual J 8th edition loads and Manual S sizing with the application because an incentive-funded system has to be sized to the building, room by room, not to a rule of thumb. The Weatherized Tier Performance Pathway adds a HomeBoost Pro assessment on top of the Manual J, so the load calculation does double duty on a weatherized home.
It is a higher rate band that took effect September 1, 2026 for homes that can document good weatherization, and a building qualifies through any one of three pathways. The Post-2010 Build / Modern Home Pathway takes municipal property records, tax assessment records, building permits, or a certificate of occupancy showing the home was built after 2010. The Past Participation Pathway takes a completed approved weatherization program, including Con Edison Weather Ready & Sealed or NYSERDA Comfort Home packages A, B, or C, and the contractor confirms the prior participation before filing. The Performance Pathway takes a building heating load per conditioned square foot under Con Edison's limit: 27 up to 999 square feet, 22 from 1,000 to 1,999, and 16 at 2,000 and above, documented with a HomeBoost Pro assessment plus the Manual J.
From March 1, 2028 weatherization becomes a prerequisite for the incentive, and the manual calls the current tier a bridge to that requirement. Option 2 projects with integrated controls get no Weatherized rate at all. One plain caveat: Vinco is not a NYSERDA Comfort Home contractor. A Comfort Home package completed with another contractor still counts for the owner under the Past Participation Pathway.
No. The federal 25C and 25D residential tax credits expired December 31, 2025, and a heat pump placed in service after that date gets neither. Do not budget around them, and treat any quote that stacks them as a red flag. The Con Edison incentive is unaffected and still applies as an invoice discount.
Check the NYSERDA Disadvantaged Communities map at the exact address, because block-level differences happen and the neighborhood name is not the test. A yes changes two numbers: every rate tier rises, and the project cost cap goes from 70% to 85%. If the map says yes, the DAC columns in the tables above are the ones that apply to your job.
The statewide program is restructuring for the 2026 to 2030 program years under Public Service Commission orders, and the Clean Heat branding narrows toward residential buildings of one to four units. Buildings with five or more units move into utility-specific energy efficiency and building electrification program implementation plans, which the Version 3 program manual confirms.
Mitsubishi Hyper-Heat, Daikin Aurora, VRF, air-to-water, and geothermal all solve different constraints. The estimate ties the equipment choice to load, access, electrical service, and rebate fit.
The reason most NYC heat pump conversions fail is undersized or non-cold-climate equipment. A standard heat pump derates hard below 17F, and a NYC winter routinely runs five to ten days under 10F. Hyper-Heat (Mitsubishi) and Aurora (Daikin) are the two cold-climate platforms that hold rated heating capacity below 0F. Both qualify for Clean Heat. Vinco installs both.
Single and multi-zone ductless. Holds 100% rated heating capacity at 5F, 76% at -13F. The default for brownstones, pre-war co-ops, and townhouses where ductwork is impractical and each floor needs its own zone. One-year Vinco parts-and-labor warranty, plus the 10-year Mitsubishi compressor warranty registered at install by a Mitsubishi certified contractor.
Centralized VRF for full buildings. One outdoor unit feeds 10+ indoor heads. The right answer for boutique hotels, mid-size offices, and small multifamily. Heat recovery models can heat one zone while cooling another on the same loop.
Daikin's cold-climate platform. Aurora wall units rate down to -13F, VRV Aurora condensers deliver 100% capacity at 0F. The default in projects where Daikin VRV is already standard, including most institutional and large commercial NYC accounts.
For buildings with existing radiator distribution that prefer not to retrofit refrigerant piping through every floor. The heat pump produces hot water and the existing radiators deliver it. Air-to-water equipment is listed on its own NYS Clean Heat AWHP Qualified Product List, not the air-source list. Common in landmarked townhouses where wall-mounted ductless heads are not approvable.
Highest efficiency and the longest service life of any platform here, and the only path eligible for Clean Heat in multifamily new construction. Limited by available drilling access in NYC, which is why most geothermal projects we run are on lots with rear yards or in new ground-up multifamily.
Mitsubishi Hyper-Heat, Daikin Aurora, VRF, air-to-water, and geothermal all solve different constraints. The estimate ties the equipment choice to load, access, electrical service, and rebate fit.
Not every NYC building is a great Clean Heat candidate. Five building types we run conversions on most often, and what makes the math pencil out for each. Heat pump vs boiler for a NYC building covers the question owners ask before they get this far.
One-pipe steam boiler decommissioned, Mitsubishi Hyper-Heat M-Series multi-zone ductless installed one zone per floor, condenser in the rear yard or on the roof. Taking the boiler out puts the job in Option 1, the top residential tier, and the incentive comes off the install invoice as a discount. A single-dwelling brownstone draws the single family rate. One split into apartments draws the per apartment rate for each apartment.
Window AC and through-wall PTAC replaced with M-Series multi-zone ductless, one outdoor unit serving the apartments that join the project. A building of one to four dwelling units draws the per-apartment rate for each apartment electrified; five or more units runs on the multifamily track. Co-op boards approve M-Series at a higher rate than other heat pumps because the line set routing is well-understood and the historical noise data is on file.
Centralized Daikin VRV Aurora or Mitsubishi City Multi VRF replacing rooftop gas-fired equipment. Commercial buildings run on a separate Con Edison track from the residential rates above, and we confirm the current figure with Con Edison for the specific building before the proposal.
Rooftop packaged-unit replacement with electric heat pump RTU plus a separate kitchen exhaust and makeup-air design. Staging the kitchen line separately from the dining room changes which Con Edison path the job files under, and we confirm that with Con Edison before the proposal.
Building-wide heat pump conversion at the market-rate prescriptive rate, $5,000 per dwelling unit, on the multifamily track. Vinco runs the entire application stack as a Con Edison NYS Clean Heat participating contractor, so the incentive lands as a discount on the invoice instead of a rebate the owner chases. Vinco is not a NYSERDA participating contractor, so if a NYSERDA program is part of your plan, bring the program name and the award letter to the site visit.
Vinco will confirm the rebate tier, filing path, equipment platform, DOB scope, warranty path, and estimated timeline before you commit.
The reason Vinco gets called for Clean Heat conversions on co-op boards, hotel chains, restaurant groups, and Class A office buildings is not marketing. It is the specific manufacturer authorizations and the in-house capability below.
Direct factory training, parts access, and the manufacturer warranty path on Mitsubishi M-Series, City Multi, Daikin VRV, and Aurora.
We file the Clean Heat application as part of the install, and the incentive comes off your invoice as an instant discount. You never apply, never wait on a check, never follow up. The discount line shows on the proposal, the contract, and the final invoice.
We file our own permits under our own license. We do not rent another contractor's number, we do not subcontract the licensed work, and we are responsible for our own DOB inspections. If a Clean Heat conversion needs an alteration permit (Alt-2 or Alt-CO), we file it.
Sister company runs an in-house ductwork shop in Brooklyn. When a Clean Heat conversion needs custom duct (rectangular, spiral, kitchen grease, or architectural), we make it in-house instead of waiting two weeks for a sheet metal sub.
If your Clean Heat conversion is being driven by a failure (boiler down in February, RTU dead in July), we schedule by severity across all five boroughs. Critical commercial calls move to the top of the queue. Dispatcher answers (212) 810-0915 24/7.
This page goes deep on residential 1 to 4 units. The neighboring tracks get the summary here and the full treatment on their own pages.
Con Edison's multifamily track covers owners and managers of buildings with 5+ residential units on an eligible Con Edison electric account. Market-rate prescriptive space heating that takes the full building load pays $5,000 per dwelling unit; custom space heating and custom domestic hot water pay $200 per MMBtu; prescriptive hot water pays $1,000 per dwelling unit; phased load space heating pays $70 per MMBtu. Market-rate incentives cap at $1 million per project or 50% of project costs, whichever is less. A separate affordable-housing track pays higher per-dwelling-unit rates under a cap of $1 million per project or 85% of project costs, whichever is lower; confirm eligibility with Con Edison rather than assuming it. Mixed-use buildings apply with the dominant use type, determined case by case. The multifamily incentives page carries the full breakdown.
C&I heat pump incentives run on $/MMBtu rates: $120 for full building load space heating, $70 for phased load space heating, and $200 for domestic hot water, capped at 50% of project cost. New construction is out: other building electrification technologies installed in new construction projects are not eligible for incentives, in Con Edison's words. Small businesses and nonprofits get per-project ccASHP tiers from $5,000 under 1,000 square feet up to $12,500 at 2,001 to 2,500 square feet, plus $150 per MMBtu custom space heating and $200 per MMBtu custom hot water, capped at 50% of project costs or $400,000, whichever is lower, and the existing fossil-fuel heating system must be decommissioned to qualify. The commercial incentives page carries the detail.
Whole-building geothermal retrofits pay $25,000 standard and $35,000 in a Disadvantaged Community, or $30,000 and $40,000 in the Weatherized Tier. New construction pays $15,000, or $20,000 in a DAC, and is automatically considered Weatherized. Non-residential geothermal runs on per-MMBtu rates under a cap of $1,000,000, or 50% of total project cost, whichever is lower, and thermal conductivity testing can draw up to $40,000, or 50% of applicable project costs, whichever is lower. The geothermal page covers drilling access and loop design.
The LL97 penalty for a covered building over its annual emissions limit is ((actual emissions minus the limit) times $268 per metric ton CO2e) per year, in the Department of Buildings' formula. A Clean Heat conversion that removes fossil fuel from the heating plant cuts that exposure at the source while Con Edison money is still on the table. The Local Law 97 HVAC compliance page carries the compliance calendar and the covered-building rules.
Common questions people ask before a Clean Heat conversion. If your question is not here, call (212) 810-0915. The dispatcher answers 24/7.
The next step is a written estimate that shows the heat pump scope, rebate path, and final price.
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