PECO customers: check peco.com for current heat pump rebates.
If your electric bill says PECO, which for Greater Philadelphia it almost certainly does, this page is the program layer of your heat pump project. Here is the full picture, the published tiers, and the exact way to keep a quote on the current page.
What PECO Pays Now
Terms live at https://www.peco.com/ways-to-save/for-your-home/rebates-discounts/heating-cooling-rebates. A contractor still quoting a closed PECO heat pump rebate is reading a closed sheet.
You claim your own utility's program; a homeowner in this carve deals with PECO, period.
Confirm the Live Page, Not a Memory
Pennsylvania utility efficiency programs operate under Act 129 in multi-year phases, and Phase IV closed May 31, 2026. The remaining discipline is ordinary: confirm those terms the week you sign, and get the quoted tier in writing.
This is normal program mechanics, not a scandal. Pages update, successors follow, terms shift. The 2026 trap is a contractor quoting "the PECO rebate" from a closed sheet on a project installing after that sheet died.
How to Protect the Project
The protection is procedural and cheap:
- Ask the bidder, first call: what PECO air-source heat pump amount is on the live page, and is the program accepting applications for my install date?
- Require the answer in writing on the quote: program name, tier claimed, and confirmation date.
- Check peco.com yourself the week you sign; program pages state current availability.
- Price the project to stand without the rebate, treating a confirmed rebate as upside.
- If the rebate is real at signing, submit promptly; tiers and budgets are program-year creatures.
The projects that go wrong here are the ones that only penciled with the rebate in.
Why the Tier Structure Rewards Good Buying
The same variable-speed, high-efficiency machines that hold capacity at the city's the coldest night and dehumidify properly in July, per our equipment guide, are the ones that sit on the higher published line. So the rebate functions as a discount on the right decision rather than a bribe toward the wrong one.
The Stale-Contractor Tell
The phase transition hands buyers a vetting tool sharper than any review site. Sort your bidders by their rebate talk:
A bidder quoting a Pennsylvania state rebate is inventing a program that does not exist. A bidder quoting a closed PECO heat pump rebate is running on a closed sheet. That correlation is the whole reason the contractor guide exists.
Where the Bigger Money Was All Along
Keep the rebate in proportion. For rowhome buyers, party-wall sizing discipline is worth more than the top tier. The rebate is the garnish on a project whose main course is sizing and operating math, which is exactly how our rebates guide frames the whole landscape.
The Paper Trail That Collects
When the program is live, the application is not complicated, but it punishes disorder. Build the folder as the project runs: the quote showing the efficiency tier, the equipment submittal sheets with model numbers, the invoice marked paid, and the installer's information. Rebate applications draw on all four, and reconstructing a submittal sheet three months after install is the kind of chore that turns a real rebate into an abandoned one.
Two timing habits help. Submit within days of commissioning, not months, because utility program budgets are annual creatures and early applications meet full coffers. And keep the confirmation number; utility processing takes weeks, and the number is the difference between a status check and a restart.
If the Bill Does Not Say PECO
A brief note for the carve's edge cases. If a property at the fringe of the region bills through one of these, the playbook is identical, confirm the phase, get it in writing, price the project to stand alone; only the number on the check changes.
The One-Paragraph Summary
A buyer who holds those five facts cannot be sold a stale number.
Your arithmetic is different, not worse; the machine's operating savings never expired, and the sizing discipline in our equipment guide was always the bigger lever.
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