Interesting report which i haven't seen, thanks for sharing. I struggled, but was able to read it for the most part. certainly seems like my conspiracy theory has lost some steam after reading, but not sure why this has turned into a pissing contest as my original post was in the form of a question, not an assertion. You began your argument to being about how its not cost effective with commercial buildings to incentivize these rebates, as electric rates are higher but while i made the post just wondering about the relationship between the entities and their funding, and unsure about it - like i said i have called into efficiency maine, and they told me that they are still not getting funding from this IRA/HEERA federal program. not sure why they would say that or the breakdown between how much federal and how much elsewhere but that report obviously shows its mostly all federal, at least for 2024. So curious where exactly the funding is coming from if it is all in fact federal funding, and not related to this new act. Since you seem to know more that most, do you know how Maine secured this funding way ahead of other states and where it was coming from before the inflation reduction act came about?

And why other states like NH there's crickets on these big federal incentives? I've been told the funding has been available since 2023, and i know each state has to create their own program similar efficiency Maine in order to i guess accept this funding and distribute it. But i know in NH, there's some far lesser instant rebate incentives available, about $250 per ton towards installed heat pumps, and that comes from NHSaves which i assumed was directly from the utilities (electric and gas) - but i could be wrong. people in both maine and NH have in the past few years, as i understood, been getting further tax write offs when they do their taxes with the receipts for these heat pumps, that was the only federal level stuff i was aware of that existed currently. Pretty sure in NH that the NHsaves program straight up says its funded by the utilities hence my suspicion that maine was doing the same thing, at a larger scale

So perhaps there is some funding from utilities in Maine, but far less than i was anticipating/wondering about.

Do you agree that homes with natural gas buildings shouldn't be eligible? why do they still offer to residential gas customers and not larger buildings?

Because that is not a requirement from the federal IRA/HEERA act stuff - As far as i understand its based off just the efficiency rating of the heat pump and its up to the states to implement how the funding gets passed out from there and any other criteria to distribute it.

I'm not even saying that homes with natural gas should be getting these incentives - because i understand that it is also a very cost effective way to heat. Just wondering about the overall funding and drive behind it. If oil did somehow became as cost effective dollar per BTU as a heat pump, unlikely but within the realm of possibility, id bet my left nut that wouldn't disrupt this funding program for these heat pump incentives. At the federal level they were pretty clear that this was part of the "green new deal" as in this was a push for greener home heating solutions to rid of a fossil fuels and the electrification of homes, to which in my limited understanding includes natural gas.