New Jersey pays for most of this work. Most owners have no idea.
Typical incentives run 50–80% of total project cost, with most projects landing at up to 70%. The final number depends on your utility tier and the building's energy usage.
Typical range
50–80%
of total project cost
Most projects
up to 70%
covered
Available in
New Jersey
all 21 counties
Final incentive depends on your utility tier and the building's energy usage. Program schedules change by program year, so we confirm current figures against your utility at survey rather than quoting from a table.
All of it runs through one statewide framework — New Jersey's Clean Energy Program, and the pathway your building falls into decides whether you are looking at a fixed equipment rebate or a modeled six-figure number.
What are these incentives actually paying for?
Energy savings, not equipment. The utility is buying a reduction in what your building draws off the grid, and the payment is sized to how big that reduction is.
That single fact explains everything else about how the programs behave. It is why an ancient, oversized boiler is a better candidate than a merely dated one; why heat pumps attract the largest incentives, because they replace two inefficient systems at once; and why new construction does not qualify at all — there is no wasteful baseline to improve on.
It is also why the process starts with a survey and an energy model rather than a price list. Until somebody has measured what your building currently uses, nobody can tell you what the incentive will be.
Which utility program applies to my building?
Whichever utility bills you for electricity — which is determined by territory, not by your town's name.
Territory boundaries do not follow municipal lines, and several New Jersey counties are split between two providers. The reliable answer is on the top of your electric bill, which is the first thing we ask for.
Gas is a separate map again. A building can be on PSE&G for electricity and New Jersey Natural Gas or Elizabethtown Gas for fuel, and a project touching both sides can qualify under both.
What do we have to do?
Provide twelve months of electric bills, twelve months of gas bills, access to walk the building, and a decision on scope. The application, the modeling and the utility coordination are ours.
A full year of both fuels is not bureaucracy — it is the raw material for the energy model, and the model is what sets the incentive. Usage is seasonal, so a partial year would misstate the saving in whichever direction the months happened to fall.
Both fuels matter because most New Jersey buildings are served by two different companies, each running a separate program. If your gas bills are missing we can only model the electric half of the project, and on a boiler replacement that is the smaller half.
The paperwork after that is the reason most buildings never do this work. It is genuinely the hardest part and it is entirely administrative — which makes it exactly the right thing for us to absorb rather than hand back to a facility manager who already has a full job.
| Utility | Fuel | Territory |
|---|---|---|
| PSE&G | Electric + gas | North and central NJ, parts of the south |
| JCP&L | Electric | Shore, northwest, parts of central |
| Atlantic City Electric | Electric | South Jersey and the southern shore |
| Rockland Electric | Electric | Far northern Bergen and Passaic |
| New Jersey Natural Gas | Gas | Monmouth, Ocean, Morris, parts of Burlington |
| South Jersey Gas | Gas | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Salem, Gloucester |
| Elizabethtown Gas | Gas | Union, Warren, Hunterdon, Sussex, parts of Middlesex |
Electric utilities
PSE&G
Northern and central New Jersey, plus parts of the south
New Jersey's largest utility. Most of the north and center of the state.
JCP&L
Shore, northwest and parts of central New Jersey
The shore, the northwest, and a large slice of the center.
Atlantic City Electric
Southern New Jersey and the southern shore
South Jersey and the shore, where hospitality dominates.
Gas utilities
New Jersey Natural Gas
Monmouth, Ocean, Morris and parts of Burlington
The shore and central counties. Gas-side incentives for heating work.
South Jersey Gas
Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Salem, Gloucester and parts of Camden and Burlington
South Jersey's gas utility. Pairs with Atlantic City Electric on most projects.
Elizabethtown Gas
Union, Warren, Hunterdon, Sussex and parts of Middlesex and Mercer
Union, the northwest, and parts of the center. Gas-side heating incentives.
Rebates by equipment
What qualifies, and what does not, for each class of equipment we replace.
Common questions
Do we have to pay upfront and claim it back?
No. The incentive is built into the project structure rather than reimbursed to you afterwards. We establish the approved amount before work is scheduled.
Does new construction qualify?
No. These programs exist to replace inefficient equipment in existing buildings. A new building is designed to code and has no baseline to improve on.
What if we lease the building?
The incentive follows the utility account holder, which in a leased building is not always the party who started the conversation. We settle that before scoping.
Is there a minimum project size?
There is no fixed floor. What matters is the size of the energy saving, which is what the survey and the energy model establish.
How long does the process take?
It varies by utility, program year and project size. We give you a realistic timeline once the survey is done rather than a generic promise up front.
Find out what your building qualifies for
The only way to get a real number is a survey and an energy model. Start with a call.