Delmarva Power heat pump rebate

A whole-home ducted heat pump costs $6,600–$11,030 installed in Delaware in 2026, with a typical 3-ton job landing near $8,815. Delaware is a small state with a split personality on heat pumps: winters are mild enough that a standard unit carries the house without backup heat, summers are humid enough that the cooling side of the machine earns its keep every year, and the electric bill decides the fuel question street by street — Delmarva Power customers pay about 19 cents a kilowatt-hour while Delaware Electric Cooperative members pay about 14.3 cents, a gap wide enough to flip the gas-versus-heat-pump answer on its own. The rebates are real but modest: Energize Delaware pays $800–$2,200 through its Home Performance program, the co-op adds grants of up to $3,000 for high-efficiency units, and the federal credit is $0 while Delaware’s $8,000 HEAR rebate still has not launched. This guide prices every system from a single mini-split head to geothermal, compares Wilmington with Newark, Dover, and the beach towns, works the running-cost sums at all three Delaware electricity prices, and is blunt about the households that should buy — and the ones that should keep their gas furnace.