Ready for a heat pump water heater?

Find out if you qualify for a free home assessment.

About the Pilot

The CalNEXT Residential Electrification Readiness Pilot is designed to help homeowners served by Southern California Edison (SCE) be a part of California’s clean energy future. Installing new and efficient electric equipment can benefit your wallet. However, replacing appliances with new, more efficient models can require additional preparation. That’s where this pilot can help!

Through this pilot, we will provide you with a free assessment of your home’s electric readiness. Our trained technicians will help you identify opportunities and make the right decisions for your home.

Homes across California can benefit from switching to high-efficiency all-electric appliances. Find out if your home is ready by scheduling an electrification readiness assessment — at no cost to you!

Diagram of a how a heat pump water heater works, showing heat pump pulling in warm air, which gets compressed, increasing its temperature. Then the condenser coils transfer heat to the water in the storage tank. Cool water enters the tank at the bottom, and hot water exits the heat pump from the top of the unit. Cool air exits the heat pump from another pipe in the top of the unit.
By transferring heat rather than creating it, heat pumps deliver hot water 3-4 times more efficiently than conventional water heaters.

Benefits of Participation

A home electrification readiness assessment that will list all necessary tasks to prepare your home for a heat pump water heater and other high-efficiency electrical appliances.

Eligibility for up to $5,500 in incentives to offset the cost of electrical-readiness upgrades, including potential electrical panel, wiring upgrades, or other site preparation work needed to install a heat pump water heater.

Guidance on all incentives available to reduce your out-of-pocket costs, steps for reserving incentives, and support finding an incentive-eligible contractor to complete your heat pump water heater installation and any necessary prep work.

Basic Requirements

Pilot only available to single-family homes.

Only Southern California Edison (SCE) customers are eligible to participate.

SCE employees or affiliates are ineligible to participate.

If you have questions, please check out our FAQs below.

  1. Apply. Complete the required participation application questions. After submitting, you will receive an email notification with the status of your application for the electrification readiness assessment.
  2. Schedule. If you are selected, a representative from the pilot program will contact you to schedule the 75-minute home electrification readiness assessment and you will receive the Customer Implementation Agreement which you must sign to receive the home electrification readiness assessment.
  3. Assess. The assessor will visit your home during the scheduled time and conduct the home electrification readiness assessment.
  4. Review. After the assessment is complete, the assessor will review your home energy assessment report with you in-person to help you determine the next steps for preparing your home for electrification and accessing available incentives. If you are not available for an in-person review, a virtual review will be scheduled within three days of the assessment.
  5. Reserve. Reserve your electrical readiness improvement incentives by following the instructions on your home assessment report.
  6. Install. Select your TECH-qualified contractor from the list provided in your assessment report, install electrification readiness upgrades, and install your new heat pump water heater. Once the installations are complete, your contractor invoice will include all eligible incentives.
  7. Enjoy. Enjoy your new heat pump water heater and electric-ready home!

FAQs

No. The pilot will only be conducting ~100 electrical readiness assessments. Final selection of participating single-family homes will be subject to location and scheduling availability of completed pilot applications.

The electrical readiness assessment is not the only way to begin your home electrification journey! TECH Clean California provides heat pump water heater and other energy efficiency incentives for Californians. Find out more about incentives available to you right now at switchison.org.

In-home assessments are expected to last no longer than 75 minutes. The assessor will arrive and ask an adult representative of the household a few questions, then walk around the inside and outside of your property to “assess” electrification opportunities. At the end of the assessment, the representative will review your results and share a digital copy of your assessment report.

 

No. There are limited funds available for electrical panel incentives. Incentives will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you are selected to participate in this pilot, you will be eligible to reserve up to $5,500 in electrical readiness incentives to help you prepare your home for a heat pump water heater installation. Electrical readiness incentives are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Incentives will be included on your contractor invoice after you complete the electrical upgrades and install your new HPWH.

Electrical Panel Upgrade RebateElectrical Wiring, Circuits, and AuxiliaryMaximum Electrification Readiness Incentive
$4,000$1,500$5,500

You are eligible to receive existing incentives available to all qualifying SCE customers through TECH Clean California. TECH Clean California offers state-wide heat pump water heater incentives to California residents. Visit switchison.org for available incentives and details. Please note that any additional incentives are outside of the jurisdiction of this pilot, are subject to funding availability, and may be determined on a case-by-case basis. After you complete your electrical readiness assessment, you will be provided with a comprehensive guide to all relevant incentives that may be available to you.

You will have a total of 45 days from reserving incentives to complete electrical panel upgrades as well as a heat pump water heater installation. Additional communication may be required during the contractor selection, estimate, and installation process to allow for unused incentives to be reallocated to others, if needed. Reasonable extensions of the required time period will be granted if the Pilot participants clearly communicate such extension requests with the Pilot team.

No. All incentives will be included on the invoice from your contractor. Note: Incentives are only available through enrolled contractors.

You are required to use one of the many TECH-qualified contractors for electrical upgrades and your HPWH installation. A list of TECH-qualified contractors in your area will be included in your home assessment report.

Yes, you are required to use the same contractor for your HPWH installation and your electrical upgrades.

Switching to high-efficiency electric appliances and features in your home can improve indoor air quality and safety, reduce your energy bill, increase your home’s efficiency, and lower emissions. For more details, visit switchison.org.

Water heating is the second largest energy use in your home. A heat pump water heater can provide all the hot water you need with a fraction of the energy. A heat pump water heater can be three times more efficient than conventional water heaters and can help you save on the cost of heating your water. For more details on water heating, visit switchison.org/water-heating or download this Heat Pump Water Heating Fact Sheet.