What does this funding get me?
Depending on your utility provider, you may be able to access special rebates, payment plans, or extensions. Eligibility and availability vary program to program. Please note that the EnergyFundsforAll.org team is unable to offer major technical assistance or answer in-depth questions about these opportunities, and you should contact your utility provider with questions.
Dominion
Payment Assistance
- EnergyShare®: Available for Residential. Funded by Dominion Energy South Carolina customers, employees, and retirees. To apply for assistance, contact your local community action agency here. For the most up-to-date and accurate information, we recommend contacting the organization directly. Resources are limited and eligibility may vary.
- Short Term Payment Extensions: A short-term payment extension allows you extra time to pay your bill. It changes the due date only. You must still handle the payment of the arrangement in a separate transaction.. Call 800-251-7234.
- Long Term Payment Extensions: A long-term payment plan (Deferred Payment Plan) is an agreement to pay your current bill and a set amount towards a past due balance, each month. It divides the past due balance into equal payments. This plan addresses utility related charges only. Customers cannot be on a short term and long term payment plan at the same time. Call 800-251-7234.
- Budget Billing: can help make bills more predictable by owing the same amount each month.
Rebates
- Heating and Cooling Rebates: Receive rebates toward the cost of purchasing and installing new ENERGY STAR® qualified central air conditioners and heat pumps, replacing an electric furnace with an ENERGY STAR® qualified heat pump, making ductwork improvements in existing residences, or installing a new ENERGY STAR® certified heat pump water heater.
- Pool Pump Rebate: Did you know your pool pump could be your home’s second-largest energy user, costing up to $310 a year in electricity? Upgrade to an ENERGY STAR® certified, variable speed pool pump and start saving immediately—with a $300 rebate to help you get started.
- Natural Gas Rebates: Find rebates for natural gas water heaters, furnaces, direct vent fireplaces, and more.
- EnergyStar® Product Discounts: Receive instant discounts on select ENERGY STAR® certified products including smart thermostats, advanced power strips, water saving measures, DIY weatherization kits and more. EnergyWiseShop.com is Dominion Energy South Carolina’s online marketplace for residential customers. All products will be shipped to your home.
- Turnkey Charging Solutions: Dominion Energy will finance, install and maintain your charging station at multi-unit residential properties, with seamless on-bill payments. You set the pricing and retain all charging revenue.
Other
- Medical Certificate: If your health or the health of a household member would be endangered by the disconnection of electric and/or gas service during the winter, a medical certificate may help. This program is available only from December 1 – March 31.
- Home Energy Check Up: Learn how to save energy and money and be entered for a chance to win a $100 Amazon Gift Card! The FREE Home Energy Check-Up is a great way to discover how to improve the energy efficiency of your home and is available to residential electric customers – both homeowners and renters. Signing up for an in-home consultation is quick and easy with this online form.
- Neighborhood Energy Efficiency: program to provide customers with energy education on how to reduce their gas usage and save money at home, while also providing the direct installation of energy-saving improvements at no cost.
- Your Smart Meter. Your Energy: Put this smart energy tool to work for you.
- Reward Hours: Reward Hours is a program where Dominion Energy rewards residential customers for managing their electricity usage certain hours of the year (we call these hours “reward hours”).
- You Shift/You Save Plan: The You Shift/You Save Plan (Rate 5-TOU) is a voluntary rate offering available to residential electric customers. Under this plan, you will be charged different amounts for electricity you use depending on when you use it throughout the day. This rate enables you to save money if you shift your electricity usage away from the high-demand hours (“on-peak hours”).
- Energy Saving Tips and Tricks
- Energy Usage Alerts: Avoid a surprising bill by enrolling to receive Energy Usage Alerts. You’ll receive an email, text or both when your energy usage exceeds the threshold you set. This gives you more time to conserve energy before the bill arrives.
- Community Solar Program: Subscribe or purchase panels from a solar farm and get money off your bill. Currently fully subscribed, but you can join the waitlist.
Santee Cooper
Payment Assistance
- Community Cares: Fund made from community donations. Ask about availability for financial assistance.
- Payment Arrangement: If you need more time paying your bill, contact us at 800-804-7424 or customercare@santeecooper.com, and we can work together on a solution that’s best for you.
- Community Agencies: If you need help paying your electric bill, there are community agencies that may be able to help.
Rebates
- EmpowerHome Rebates: Santee Cooper’s one-stop, energy-saving shop, with easy access to affordable, energy-efficient products with discounted prices or instant rebates on heat pumps, smart thermostats, duct replacement, heat pump water heaters, fridges, washers, pool equipment, and more.
- Santee Cooper Marketplace: Can get instant savings on energy savings items like light bulbs, surge protectors, thermostats, etc
- Solar Panels: helps you put solar panels on your own roof and pay part of the cost with rebates and credits.
Other
- Solar Share: Community Solar
- Defeat The Peak: Save energy during Peak Hours (those three hours each day when customer demand for electricity surges) to reduce your bill
- Energy Efficiency Loans: Santee Cooper offers loans to approved customers to help with the expense of installing energy efficient equipment. Loans up to $20,000 are available for the following qualifying equipment: high efficiency electric heat pumps, duct replacements and heat pump water heaters.
- Empower Home Home Energy House Calls: A Santee Cooper Energy Advisor can visit your home and give you customized advice on how to become more energy efficient and still stay comfortable. You will be provided with a free Home Energy House Call Kit with products to get you started.
- Power Partners: The Santee Cooper Power Partners Program is available to homeowners and renters in qualified neighborhoods. Designed to help customers save energy and money, the program is available exclusively to qualified residential electric customers. After a quick and easy energy assessment, an Energy Specialist will install free energy-saving products in your home.
- Outdoor Rental Lighting Program: Customers, including HOAs, can lease outdoor LED lights and poles through our Outdoor Rental Lighting Program.
- Empower Auto: ChargeSmart Electric Vehicle Rate Plan: two different plans to mitigate energy consumption from charging
Duke Energy Carolinas
Payment Assistance
REBATES
- Heating and Cooling System Rebates
- Heat Pump (Hybrid) Water Heater
- Attic Insulation/Air Sealing Ductwork
- Variable-Speed Pool Pump
OTHER
- Weatherization: This program is designed to help income-qualified customers save energy and reduce expenses through the installation of energy conservation measures in their homes.
- Neighborhood Energy Saver Program: The Duke Energy Neighborhood Energy Saver Program offers free walk-through energy assessments designed to help customers learn how their homes use energy and how to lower monthly electric bills. In addition, qualified customers receive up to 17 free version 1.0 energy-saving products installed at no cost.
- Power Manager: Smart Thermostat, air conditioner, heat strip, water heater
- Home Energy Report
- Schedule an Energy Audit
Duke Energy Progress
Payment Assistance
REBATES
- Heating and Cooling Systems
- Heat Pump (Hybrid) Water Heater
- Attic Insulation/Air Sealing Duct Work
- Variable-Speed Pool Pump
OTHER
- Weatherization: This program is designed to help income-qualified customers save energy and reduce expenses through the installation of energy conservation measures in their homes.
- Neighborhood Energy Saver Program: The Duke Energy Neighborhood Energy Saver Program offers free walk-through energy assessments designed to help customers learn how their homes use energy and how to lower monthly electric bills. In addition, qualified customers receive up to 17 free version 1.0 energy-saving products installed at no cost.
- High Energy Usage Assistance Program: You could be eligible for free energy improvements that can help lower your energy use – and your monthly energy bill. Upgrades can include heating and cooling systems, insulation, air sealing, appliances and more.
- EnergyWise Home: Smart Thermostat, air conditioner, heat strip, water heater, etc
- Home Energy Report
- Charger Installation Credits
Don’t see your provider?
We are slowly adding more providers to this page. If you don’t see your provider, it does not mean there are no support programs. Contact us to let us know what provider you are looking for, and we can get them added!
What other incentives could I use to help me accomplish my goals?
The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) helps eligible households pay their heating bills. The application will be open from December 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025. Click here to learn more about how to apply.
If you are experiencing a heating or cooling crisis in North Carolina, the Crisis Intervention Program may be able to help. Applications are taken each year beginning July 1st – June 30th of the following year or until the CIP allocation is exhausted, whichever comes first. For more information and application criteria, please visit the State’s website here: Crisis Intervention Program.
If you are approved for LIHEAP or the Crisis Intervention Program, you automatically qualify for Duke Energy’s Customer Assistance Program. CAP provides a flat monthly credit of up to $42 on your bill for 12 months, making your energy costs more manageable. Once your LIHEAP or CIP application is approved, the credit will be automatically applied to your Duke Energy bill.
Check out our (non-exhaustive) list of non-federal funding from other sources that may fit your energy and cost-saving goals.