Equitable Building Decarbonization Direct Install Program (no-cost home electrification)

Amounts

How much you get

All upgrades, from the home assessment through installation, are provided at no cost. Every home served gets a heat pump for space heating and cooling, a heat pump water heater, or both, plus other upgrades chosen at the assessment.

Eligibility

Do I qualify?

You need to meet all 7 of these.

• Your home is in California.

• The home must be in one of the program's initial community focus areas (for example East and West Oakland, East Palo Alto, Richmond, Sacramento, Bakersfield, Fresno, Los Banos, Modesto, Compton, Santa Ana, Chula Vista, El Centro, Indio, San Bernardino and others listed on the CEC page), or in a community added later through the community application process. Within those communities the program focuses on low-income households in eligible census tracts.

• Single-family and manufactured/mobile homes must be occupied by a low-income household, earning up to 80% of area median income (thresholds by county from the Department of Housing and Community Development). In multifamily buildings, at least two-thirds of units must be low-income.

• Single-family homes, multifamily buildings, and manufactured or mobile homes.

• Homeowners and renters can apply; the property owner decides whether to go ahead with the retrofit.

• Built before January 1, 2020.

• Natural gas, propane or another fossil fuel must be the primary fuel for space heating or water heating.

Equipment

What equipment counts

Applying

How to apply

Open in the initial community focus areas while funds last. A community application process for other under-resourced communities is expected in late 2026.

1. 1
   Check that your community is served.

   See the initial community focus areas for your region on the CEC page.

2. 2
   Contact your regional administrator.

   Northern California: Association for Energy Affordability (ebd@aeacleanenergy.org, property interest form at aea.us.org/ebd-northern). Central California: Center for Sustainable Energy (contactEBD@energycenter.org, eligibility check at ebd.energycenter.org). Southern California: County of Los Angeles (online interest form at socalebd.org or call 1-424-285-6602; contactus@socalebd.org).

   Go to energy.ca.gov

3. 3
   Eligibility screening.

   Complete the income eligibility check and give basic household and utility information.

4. 4
   Free home assessment.

   A program assessor evaluates the home and picks upgrades from the program's list.

5. 5
   Approve the plan and get the work done.

   If the property owner agrees, program contractors install the upgrades at no cost, followed by a final check.

Forms and instructionsCSE news release: No-Cost Energy Upgrades Available for Income-Eligible Households in Central California (April 16, 2026) · EBD Southern California (County of Los Angeles) · EBD Northern California (Association for Energy Affordability)

Start on energy.ca.gov

Stacking

Use it with

Your address

Next steps

Check that it covers your address. Then, if you want, ask for a contractor quote.

FAQ

Questions

Plain words

Words used on this page

Fossil-fuel heating

Heating that burns gas, oil or propane.

References

Sources

This page is built from these official pages, run by the program itself.

1. CEC: EBD Statewide Direct Install Programenergy.ca.gov · Read Oct 27, 2026 · Re-checked weekly
2. CSE news release: No-Cost Energy Upgrades Available for Income-Eligible Households in Central California (April 16, 2026)energycenter.org · Read Oct 27, 2026 · Re-checked monthly
3. EBD Southern California (County of Los Angeles)socalebd.org · Read Oct 27, 2026 · Re-checked weekly
4. EBD Northern California (Association for Energy Affordability)aea.us.org · Read Oct 27, 2026 · Re-checked weekly

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