We interrupt this regularly scheduled FollowFriday to bring you some very important news about the Texas Trade Up Appliance Rebate Program. A few things have changed, including the date for reserving rebates and some valuable new information has been added to the Official State of Texas Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program Web site. For those of you who are familiar with the program and/or have been following our articles on the topic, you can jump on down to the Changes section. For the rest of you, we have a quick recap.
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Texas – Trade Up Appliance Rebate Program – UPDATE
Friday, April 2nd, 2010Trade Up Appliance Rebate Program – The Final Countdown
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
A month ago (February 24th), we brought you the article titled Cash-for-Clunker Program to Extend to Appliances in April. The blog post, now one of our most frequented of all time, covered the first-ever appliance upgrade rebate program. The program, created using the same ideas that made the Cash for Clunkers program so popular, is meant to encourage consumers to put more money back into the economy, while removing older, less efficient appliances (dishwashers, freezers, refrigerators, air-conditioners, etc.) from the “grid.” Individual state programs were put in place to handle these rebates and many of them have begun, or are about to begin, within the next month. Since that original article, some details have solidified, some have changed and new resources have been unveiled. If you were even thinking about an upgraded appliance, you will want to research this program. Rebates range from $100 to over $1,000 dollars (amounts vary from state to state).
Thanks to an email from my state comptroller, I have updated information on the Texas Rebate Program (y’all can jump down to your section now), but I didn’t want to leave out the rest of the U.S. With the exception of Iowa, Kansas and Minnesota (whose programs have already ended), consumers can visit the Energy Savers web site (part of the U.S. Department of Energy), to navigate to the appropriate information for their state. This site was last updated on March 24th and is updated regularly as additional program details become available. Note that this web site is the ONLY official DOE-sponsored web site. We also have some valuable information for consumers (of all states) available in the Retailers section below.
UPDATE: Texas Residents, some key information, including the Reservation Period start date, has changed. See our most recent article Texas – Trade Up Appliance Rebate Program – UPDATE for additional information. – added 4/02/10
Cash-for-Clunker Program to Extend to Appliances in April
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Intro: This article might be a bit “out of the norm” compared to our typical computer-based blog-posts but serves as an example of what using your computer can do for you. I found out about this program, and the details, via Google Reader. Reader allows me to follow multiple blogs and pick out the articles I want to read. In this case, I was following the Switched.com blog when I ran across the article titled States Extend Cash-for-Clunker to Appliances. The article contained the links I needed to drill down to the Texas Appliance Rebates web site.
That’s right, the highly successful Cash for Clunkers program will soon extend to home appliances, like dishwashers, freezers, refrigerators and air-conditioners. The thought process here is that the program will encourage consumers to put more money back into the economy, while removing older, less efficient appliances from the “grid.” As Terrence O’Brien (author of States Extend Cash-for-Clunker to Appliances) points out, “cars aren’t the only aging and inefficient products that people tend to retain long past their expiration dates.”
