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Brooklyn (Kings County)

County or city: Brooklyn (Kings County) Utility territory: Con Edison for electric across the entire borough; National Grid (legacy KeySpan / Brooklyn Union Gas) for natural gas Verified: May 27, 2026 Source quality: Secondary

What programs apply here

Brooklyn is the borough where the NYC utility split matters most for homeowners. Electric is Con Edison; gas is National Grid. Almost every gas-heated home in Brooklyn has two separate utility relationships, and the rebate menu reflects that. At a Brooklyn address you can apply for:

  • NY-Sun: the state's upfront solar incentive. Brooklyn has more usable roof area on 1-3 family housing stock than any other dense NYC borough.
  • NY-Sun Community Solar: for renters and for owners whose roofs are obstructed by parapets, water tanks, or adjacent buildings.
  • NY State Solar Tax Credit: 25% state income tax credit on residential solar, capped at $5,000.
  • NY State Geothermal Credit: rare in Brooklyn but possible on detached homes in the southern and eastern parts of the borough with rear-yard access.
  • NYS Clean Heat: heat pump rebates delivered through Con Edison.
  • Comfort Home: insulation and air sealing packages, especially relevant for the brownstone belt and pre-war wood-frame housing stock.
  • EmPower+: the income-qualified path and the federal HEAR intake.
  • Solar for All: community solar bill credits for income-qualified households.
  • Con Edison Residential Rebates: electric, heat pump, weatherization, and smart thermostat rebates.
  • National Grid Rebates: Brooklyn gas rebates run through National Grid's downstate gas program, not the upstate electric program.

What stacks at this address

Combinations that come up frequently for Brooklyn owners:

  • Clean Heat + Con Ed rebate + early gas decommissioning. Brooklyn's housing stock leans heavily gas-fired. A heat pump retrofit that displaces gas heating runs the Clean Heat rebate through Con Edison (because Clean Heat is electric-utility administered) while National Grid handles the gas service termination on the back end. The two utilities do not coordinate the timing; the homeowner does.
  • Comfort Home + Con Ed weatherization. A brownstone or pre-war frame house with original lath-and-plaster walls is exactly the housing stock Comfort Home was designed for. The Comfort Home Better Package and the Con Edison weatherization rebate can be filed on the same insulation and air-sealing job. Confirm scope with the contractor before signing.
  • NY-Sun + state solar credit (1-3 family). Stacks the upfront NY-Sun rebate with the 25% state tax credit. The credit is computed on post-rebate net cost. Best fit is the south-facing flat or low-slope roof common across Brooklyn row houses.
  • EmPower+ + HEAR. Brooklyn has a large income-qualified homeowner base. Apply once through EmPower+; the same intake determines federal HEAR eligibility.
  • Community Solar + Solar for All. Brooklyn renters, and owners whose roofs are unsuitable, can subscribe to community arrays without any equipment install.

County or city programs unique to here

The NYC layer is shared across all five boroughs, but Brooklyn's housing mix changes which pieces apply most:

  • NYC Accelerator. Free expert advice on energy retrofits for owners of small buildings (1-9 units) and large buildings. The 1-9 unit track covers most of Brooklyn's 1-3 family housing stock. Start at accelerator.nyc.
  • Local Law 97. Applies to buildings over 25,000 square feet. Most Brooklyn homeowners are below the threshold, but parts of Downtown Brooklyn, Fort Greene, and the larger co-op buildings in Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights are over it. If you are a shareholder, ask your board for the building's compliance plan.
  • Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing. Available in NYC through Energize NY PACE. Useful for larger Brooklyn multifamily and commercial projects, not for single-unit owners.
  • NYC HPD weatherization assistance. Limited weatherization support for HPD-regulated affordable housing and small landlords. Relevant for owners of regulated buildings, not market-rate single-unit owners.
  • National Grid gas program separation. Brooklyn's gas service is the former KeySpan / Brooklyn Union Gas footprint, now National Grid. Gas rebates and gas program contacts go through National Grid, not Con Edison. This trips up homeowners who assume the electric utility handles every rebate.

Who to call locally

  • NYC Accelerator: (212) 656-9202, accelerator.nyc. The first call for a Brooklyn retrofit.
  • Con Edison residential customer service: rebate intake through coned.com; phone support on the monthly bill.
  • National Grid residential customer service (downstate gas): call National Grid directly for gas-side rebates and service questions. National Grid's downstate gas program pages have been intermittently unavailable; phone is the reliable path.
  • NYS Clean Heat rebate finder: cleanheat.ny.gov/find-available-rebates for address-specific heat pump amounts.
  • Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice: climate.cityofnewyork.us.

Climate Smart Communities status

The City of New York is a Certified Climate Smart Community under the New York State CSC program, covering all five boroughs including Brooklyn. The certification supports city-level grant access; it does not change homeowner rebate eligibility directly.

Important local dates

  • Con Edison rebate budgets follow the utility's annual rate-case cycle. Mid-year program-line exhaustion has happened in past years; apply earlier in the year.
  • National Grid downstate gas rebate budgets follow National Grid's own energy efficiency program cycle filed with the New York Public Service Commission.
  • NYC Accelerator funding is renewed through the Mayor's Office budget cycle. No fixed program-end date is published as of May 27, 2026.
  • Local Law 97 compliance periods tighten in 2030 for buildings already over the 2024 threshold.

Source

NYSERB.com is an independent research site. It is not affiliated with the City of New York, the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, Con Edison, National Grid, NYSERDA, the State of New York, or any utility. Verify all program details and incentive amounts directly with the relevant program administrator before making any financial decision.

Verified against accelerator.nyc, www.coned.com, www.nationalgridus.com on May 27, 2026.

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