News
May 22, 2023 – Oakland, CA
TECH Clean California 2022 Quick Start Grant Recipients Launch Programs
TECH Clean California awarded eight recipients with Quick Start Grants to fund targeted, innovative pilots that test approaches to overcoming market barriers to heat pump space and water heating adoption. By testing these transformation approaches, the Quick Start Grant program will promote the development and refinement of interventions that can be scaled into statewide solutions. By May 1, 2023, all eight recipients have launched their pilots.
April 25, 2023 – Sacramento, CA
Incentives Relaunch April 25 to Help California Homeowners Electrify
California’s award-winning heat pump program, TECH Clean California, has relaunched incentives for heat pumps for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning through TECH-certified contractors.
February 24, 2023 – Oakland, CA
TECH Clean California 2022 Quick Start Grant Recipients Launch Programs
TECH Clean California awarded seven recipients with Quick Start Grants to fund targeted, innovative pilots that test approaches to overcoming market barriers to heat pump space and water heating adoption. By testing these transformation approaches, the Quick Start Grant program will promote the development and refinement of interventions that can be scaled into statewide solutions.
November 28, 2022 – Oakland, CA
TECH Clean California Publishes Annual Report Covering the First Program Year, June 2021 through June 2022
We are pleased to publish our first Annual Report for TECH Clean California. As we prepare for 2023, we want to recognize what we have learned and what we have accomplished through focus and collaboration.
October 11, 2022 – Oakland, CA
Inflation Reduction Act—What We Know
The Federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will provide tax credits and incentives for clean heating and cooling in homes starting in 2023.
These federal incentives will be in addition to the California state incentives that are available for TECH Clean California.
September 27, 2022 – Oakland, CA
TECH Clean California receives $145 million to expand decarbonization efforts
California Energy Trailer Bill continues the state’s commitment to heat pump installations.
In late August, the state of California passed the California Energy Trailer Bill that will direct an additional $145 million to TECH Clean California over the next two years. The funding will be used to continue the statewide initiative aimed at accelerating the adoption of clean space and water heating technology in California homes to help California meet its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2045.
TECH Clean California will receive $50 million in FY 22/23, and $95 million in FY 23/24 contingent on the state meeting revenue projections to increase heat pump installations and reach more Californians in need, growing the contractor workforce, and continuing to create broader market transformation to heat pumps.
TECH Clean California has already started to transform California’s heat pump market.