Vermont Heating Incentives for Wood and Pellet Stoves in 2026

Efficiency Vermont offers $400 as of September 2026 on a new EPA-certified stove that meets its emissions and efficiency requirements, often as an instant discount at a participating retailer. Central pellet furnaces and boilers qualify for up to $6,000.

Efficiency Vermont for statewide efficiency programmes, then your own electric utility, then the appliance manufacturer. Checking all three is worth the time because they are independent of each other and can stack.

Burlington Electric Department if you are within the City of Burlington, and Green Mountain Power across the surrounding Chittenden County towns. It matters here because the city runs its own municipal utility with its own programmes.

Not for a 2026 installation. The 30 percent credit, capped at $2,000 a year, covered wood and pellet stoves with at least 75 percent efficiency installed between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2025.

Programmes frequently require it, and it is worth confirming before you buy instead of after you install. An owner installation that disqualifies a rebate is an expensive way to save on labour.

Some programmes require removal and proof of it. Where that applies, keep documentation, because reconstructing evidence that an appliance was removed and disposed of is difficult after the fact.

Sometimes, and the rules on stacking differ by programme. A specific question worth asking each programme directly, not assuming either that they combine or that they do not.

Establish the requirements before purchase and submit as soon as the programme allows. Funding can run out during a programme year, which is the most common way a qualifying purchase ends up without the incentive.

Indirectly but usefully. A change of appliance is a defined trigger for a Level 2 inspection, and some programmes and most insurers care about compliant installation. Doing them together keeps everything on one timeline.

Efficiency programmes broadly target appliances and building efficiency instead of masonry repair. Where an upgrade includes a liner as part of a qualifying installation, that can sit inside the project: worth asking the programme directly.

Choose it on whether it suits the house and how you want to live with it, then check what is available for that choice. Buying the wrong appliance because it qualifies is a poor trade over the appliance's life.

The programme itself, and the dealer commonly knows current eligibility for what they sell. What matters is the specific model number, because eligibility lists are model-level, not category-level.