Ohio Home Owners Offered Appliance Rebates and Energy Savings

  Ohio home owners and tenants have an opportunity to replace old household appliances with new and more efficient Energy Star rated models under the Ohio Energy Efficient Appliance Program begun on March 26, 2010. Qualifying buyers will receive rebates on qualifying purchases ranging from $100 for a refrigerator to $250 for an electric heat pump water heater.

 Eligible appliances and rebate amounts include:

 Refrigerators  $100

• Clothes washers  $150
• Dish washers  $100
• High-efficiency gas storage water heaters  $100
• Electric heat pump water heaters  $250

 The rebate program is scheduled to end on April 19, 2010 for refrigerators, dishwashers and clothes washers. Purchasers of water heaters must make purchases by May 24, 2010. Retailers expect brisk sales and it is possible that the program will end early if the funds for the rebates are exhausted.

 Funded by the State of Ohio, the program expects to issue rebates totaling $10.4 million.

Many Ohio appliance retailers are participating in the program. More information is available here  including lists of the appliances qualifying and estimates of the energy savings associated with Energy Star appliances.