Washington Gas is here to make your home more energy efficient and your equipment shopping experience more affordable.
As of April 2021, Maryland residential Washington Gas customers can receive rebates on qualifying natural gas water heaters and dryers at our approved retailers. Retail associates at these stores are trained and ready to help you find the right appliance for your home. Be sure to look out for Washington Gas signage highlighting these rebates in these stores! Customers can save up to $400 on natural gas water heaters and $75 on natural gas dryers.
Qualifying ENERGY STAR certified natural gas water heaters are ALSO eligible for a $300 federal tax credit! Visit the ENERGY STAR website for more information. Montgomery County residents can also receive a $250 Montgomery County Energy Efficiency tax credit. That means you could save up to $950!
Participation is easy! To qualify for a rebate:
Click here to get started on your path to energy savings.
To learn more about eligible equipment and the application process, please call our Application Processing Center at 1-833-286-0860.
Why on earth are you promoting replacing a gas furnace with an upgraded gas furnace? You should be promoting high efficiency air-source or ground-source heat pumps.
Have you read the County Climate Action Plan? It calls for eliminating all green house gas emissions by 2035. You should be prohibiting the installation of gas furnaces in all new homes immediately and requiring gas furnaces in existing homes to be replaced by 2030.
Customers will not be happy if, after ‘upgrading’ to a high-efficiency gas furnace, they find out they should have installed a high-efficiency heat pump instead.
Patricia,
Unfortunately not everyone has the money, time, or means to replace their gas furnace with high efficiency air-source or ground-source heat pumps. Right now, all gas customers pay EmPOWER Maryland charges through their monthly gas bill; these EmPOWER revenues are the funding source for this incentive not the County. The goal of this website and the County is to make sure residents know about programs, incentives, and rebates that are available to them right now to help them lower their energy bills. For those who are unable to make the switch right now, we want to encourage CONSERVATION. The cheapest and most environmentally friendly energy source is the energy we don’t use.