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Hakhamaneshi: Why I walked away from a $4,000 water heater rebate
I recently looked seriously at replacing my 2014 natural gas water heater with a heat pump water heater. At first, the decision looked easy. Silicon Valley Clean Energy was offering a large rebate, and with stacked incentives the total could be about $4,000. A contractor estimated that a 65-gallon heat pump water heater could cost... The post Hakhamaneshi: Why I walked away from a $4,000 water heater rebate appeared first on San José Spotlight .
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According to San Jose Spotlight’s source item, Hakhamaneshi: Why I walked away from a $4,000 water heater rebate, I recently looked seriously at replacing my 2014 natural gas water heater with a heat pump water heater. At first, the decision looked easy. Silicon Valley Clean Energy was offering a large rebate, and with stacked incentives the total could be about $4,000. A contractor estimated that a 65-gallon heat pump water heater could cost… The post Hakhamaneshi: Why I walked away from a $4,000 water heater rebate appeared first on San José Spotlight .
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