How much does a heat pump cost on Long Island?

Heat pump cost on Long Island

Installed, before rebates. These are the New York City bands times a regional factor of 1 for NY suburbs. Judgement: Long Island installer ranges (one zone $5,000-$8,000, three zones $10,000-$15,000) run about 6 to 9 percent above the NYC installer midpoints, which is inside the gap between the two NYC installers themselves, so no discount or premium is applied; Westchester and Hudson Valley installer prices were not found, so this rests on Long Island only. Prices last checked October 27, 2026. Ranges, not quotes.

Your electric company

• Nassau County PSEG Long Island is the electric company for Nassau County. Nassau County data page
• Suffolk County PSEG Long Island is the electric company for Suffolk County. Suffolk County data page

Rebates for PSEG Long Island customers

1 program for PSEG Long Island customers is listed as open. Pause and waitlist status could not be confirmed from a public live source for any utility. The New York Clean Heat manual (v3, effective 2026-09-01) lists full amounts for all six NY utilities and no public notice of a pause was found; Con Edison and National Grid ration money through quarterly contractor allocations (official Clean Heat meeting summaries say contractors "should only submit applications for incentives within their allocated incentive budget"), so a homeowner can be told no money is left through a given contractor. Treat "open" as "listed and not publicly paused", and call the utility or contractor before promising a rebate.

• PSEG Long Island Home Comfort: income tiers of the same whole-house rebate Low income (<60% of area median income) $7,500; moderate income (<80% AMI) $5,000 per single-family home. Status: open; income-qualified. Paid by PSEG Long Island. Source: PSEG Long Island, Heat Pump Rebates, read 2026-10-27
• PSEG Long Island Home Comfort: whole-house cold-climate air-source heat pump Per single-family home: $4,000 market rate, $5,000 in a disadvantaged community or for moderate income (<80% AMI), $7,500 for low income (<60% AMI); $250 per project to the contractor. Whole-house projects only; the page says cost caps may apply. The page also says the heat pump must meet 100-120% of the entire dwelling heating load (Manual J required), and that dual-fuel controls are required or the old fossil system must be removed. Status: open. Paid by PSEG Long Island. Source: PSEG Long Island, Heat Pump Rebates, read 2026-10-27
• NYSERDA EmPower+ (income-eligible homeowners) For households at or below 80 percent of state or area median income (or on a utility payment assistance program): funding toward air sealing, insulation, heat pumps, heat pump water heaters and electrical upgrades, up to 100 percent of some project costs. The page does not state a heat pump dollar cap. Status: open; income-qualified. Paid by NYSERDA. Source: MyEnergy.NY.gov, EmPower+ / Comfort Home, read 2026-10-27
• Federal High-Efficiency Electric Home Rebates (formerly HEAR), New York DOE Program Notice 26-2, effective May 29, 2026, removed rebates for fuel switching (replacing non-electric equipment); rebates now only for upgrading existing electric equipment. How New York applies this to heat pumps was not verified. Status: unknown; income-qualified. Paid by US Department of Energy via NYSERDA. Source: US Department of Energy, Home Energy Rebates Program Notice 26-2, read 2026-10-27
• Federal Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit (25C), New York Was 30 percent of cost up to $2,000 a year for heat pumps; not available for property placed in service after December 31, 2025. Status: ended. Paid by US Treasury / IRS. Source: IRS, Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit, read 2026-10-27

Rebates for this area last read October 27, 2026.

Towns covered

Hempstead, Garden City, Levittown, Freeport, Long Beach, Great Neck, Massapequa, Oyster Bay, Glen Cove, Huntington, Islip, Brookhaven, Babylon, Smithtown, Riverhead, Southampton, East Hampton, Patchogue.

About heat pumps on Long Island

Nassau County has a cold-winter climate with humid summers, so a heat pump does both jobs. The housing is mostly single-family homes, many Cape and ranch houses built after World War II, with an oil or gas boiler and radiators or baseboard. Homes without ducts are common, which is why ductless systems come up often here.

Suffolk County sits in a cold-winter climate zone, with Long Island Sound and the Atlantic keeping it a little milder than inland New York. Much of the housing is single-family homes built from the 1950s on, many heated with oil or natural gas, and many with a furnace and ducts. Older homes with radiators or baseboard heat usually point to ductless units.