The Multi-Family Water and Space Heating Program provides incentives to multifamily project developers who agree to facilitate the installation of non-electric water heating in both market rate and affordable rate multifamily projects within CenterPoint Energy’s electric distribution service territory.

For more information, please email our program contact at waterspaceheating@CenterPointEnergy.com.

Program Eligibility

Developers who agree to facilitate the installation of qualifying high-efficiency non-electric water heating in eligible multi-family projects are subject to the following requirements:

• The Program incentives apply to multifamily units within CNP's electric distribution service territory.
• All water heating equipment to be installed must meet or exceed applicable federal efficiency standards or local building codes, as applicable. For storage tank water heaters, these standards were revised in 2004. For natural gas storage tank water heaters, the current federal standards are:

Size	EF
40 Gallon	0.59
50 Gallon	0.58

 

Incentives

For projects involving the installation of individual water heaters and central service water heaters, the program provides different incentive levels for market-rate (residential) and affordable (hard-to-reach or HTR). The 2009 incentive rates are summarized below:

Type	Residential   (Market Rate) Per Unit	Hard-to-Reach  (Affordable) Per Unit
Individual Water Heaters	$250	$450
Central Service Water Heaters (Boilers)	$200	$350

Additional Program Information

Application
Program Manual