New Rebates!

We are excited to find that a few utility companies outside of California are now offering rebates for whole house fans. It’s nice to see some forward thinking by these companies. After all, energy savings can come from more than just replacing appliances or installing new windows.


Fort Collins Utility in Colorado is now offering a $250 rebate for the installation of a whole house fan

Pennsylvania is the first East Coast state with utilities offering rebates on whole house fans. PECO and Duquesne Light offer $90 and $130 rebates respectively

If you are a builder in Utah you can receive a $200 rebate on a WHF from Rocky Mountain Power when building a new energy efficient home

The table below lists all of the rebates that we are aware of for whole house fans and solar attic fans (your solar attic fan already qualifies for a 30% federal tax credit). Please refer to the utility rebate website for specific details on qualifications, $$$, and application forms.

STATE UTILITY WHF* SAF*
CA LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF WATER & POWER $200
CA LODI ELECTRIC UTILITY $100 $40
CA RIVERSIDE PUBLIC UTILITIES $200
CA SILICON VALLEY POWER $200 $100
CA GLENDALE WATER & POWER $100-$125
CA BURBANK WATER & POWER $50-$100 $200
CA ANAHEIM PUBLIC UTILITIES $100 $30
CA PASADENA WATER & POWER $100
CA SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON $50
CA SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC $50
CA REDDING ELECTRIC UTILITY $150
CA TURLOCK IRRIGATION DISTRICT WATER & POWER $75
CA SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT $100
CA MODESTO IRRIGATION DISTRICT WATER & POWER $100 $50-$100
CO BOULDER COUNTY $500
CO FORT COLLINS UTILITIES $250
PA DUQUESNE LIGHT $130
PA PECO $90
TX GUADALUPE VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE $50
UT ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER $200
*Please refer to utility for rebate details

Energy Star Rated What ?

We have always been a bit miffed that whole house fans are not eligible for an Energy Star rating. It was always our impression that the feds were too busy to find the time to recognize and certify one of the best energy saving technologies around. (That’s a Whole House Fan, BTW) So it came as a pleasant surprise, to see that one arm of our government (the GAO Government Accountability Office) was doing its job.

The folks at the GAO submitted several bogus products to test just how carefully the EPA (administrators of the Energy Star Certifcation) examined products and claims. Now, this is where it would be funny if it wasn’t true. Here is one product they submitted:

So that's how you save electricity... make it gas powered ? DUH !
As if this wasn't enough, they also submitted an "Air Room Cleaner". Yes, that is a duster attached to what is apparently a fan/filter unit. (It was also approved.)

What are the lessons to be learned:

  • Make real standards for energy efficiency.
  • Verify performance is to those standards.
  • Fire somebody !

Hats off to the GAO people !  Not so much for the EPA.

See the whole report at: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10470.pdf

Southern California Edison

At long last! Southern California Edison, the only remaining utility company still needing to update their rebate list to include our 2.5 and 4.5 models, has finally done so. Good grief, it took them long enough!  For over 6 months now I have been making at least one, but usually more, pleading calls a week to their rebate center and rebate program manager. I’ve sent more than a dozen emails to them.  I’ve begged anyone over there who would listen to look at the California Energy Commission appliance database and the PG&E website for the required documentation, which are the only requirements listed for SCE to list a new product model.

It wasn’t the rejection that bothered me the most, although 6 months with no response is disheartening to say the least. What bothered me most was when customers would call us, frustrated at receiving a rejection to their rebate application, who had been told by the SCE rebate center that their list was absolutely up to date with no pending items.  No pending items? What do they call over half a year’s worth of unanswered voicemail messages and emails then?

Well, all my bitterness aside, I am happy to announce that the long wait is over.  Every model whole house fan that AirScape manufacturers is now listed on the SCE’s list of qualifying products. SCE qualifying product list

For a list of the other utility companies that offer rebates on our fans, see our rebate page. AirScape rebates

Rebates !

We love the validation that utilities give to the whole house fan concept by sponsoring rebates on our products. Thank You.

BUT… P.G.&E. took longer to put our new model 2.5WHF on their “qualifying list” than it took us to design, test, photograph, market, and sell the first year’s production! Wow ! We are just too quick for you utilities Wink

Click here for the Pacific Gas and Electricity rebate page