New Hampshire hopes to help residents replace older, inefficient hot water heaters and heating systems through a mail-in rebate program this spring.

The program offers rebates on Energy Star-qualified appliances and certain solar thermal products and indoor boiler reset controls that fall outside the Energy Star scope. Advance rebate reservations are required for the solar thermal products.

Water heater rebates:

• Gas condensing water heaters - $300
• Gas storage water heaters - $100
• Gas tankless water heaters - $300
• Solar water heaters - $750

Furnace rebates

• Gas furnaces (Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency ≥ 90%) - $300
• Gas furnaces (AFUE ≥ 85% with ECM) - $400
• Oil furnaces (AFUE ≥ 85%) - $300
• Oil furnaces (AFUE ≥ 85% with ECM) - $400

Boiler rebates

• Gas boilers (AFUE ≥ 85%) - $500
• Gas boilers (AFUE ≥ 90%) - $1,000
• Oil boilers (AFUE ≥ 85%) - $500
• Oil boilers (AFUE ≥ 90%) - $1,000
• Indoor boiler reset controls - $100

The program is tentatively scheduled to begin in April 2010 and will end when funds are depleted. Consumers are encouraged to recycle the replaced products.

More information on what products are eligible and how you can apply for the rebate will be available in early 2010.

The program is one of 56 State Energy-Efficient Appliance Rebate Programs, popularly known as Cash for Appliances, that are being set up in the United States and six U.S. territories with the help of federal stimulus money.

New Hampshire will receive about $1.3 million of the nearly $300 million in stimulus funding available nationwide from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Household appliances such as clothes washers and air conditioners are not included under the New Hampshire SEEARP program and instead will continue to be offered through an existing Energy Star Appliance Rebate Program.

For more information on the Cash for Appliances program, visit the New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning Web site or call 603-271-2155.