Natural Gas | Rebates
Natural Gas is an economic step to optimizing the energy in your home.
The City of Tallahassee's rebate and low-interest loan programs can help you invest in your home or business. Your heating or plumbing professional can help you find qualifying, high-efficiency natural gas equipment that best fits your needs.
To get started, download and fill out the residential or commercial customer rebate form. Submit your completed application and copy of payment receipt:
Who May Participate: City of Tallahassee natural gas customers, including new customers connecting where gas available. Are you a business owner looking for gas rebates?
How to Get Started: Download and fill out the rebate form. Submit completed rebate application and a copy of paid receipt:
BY EMAIL: UtilityBilling@Talgov.com
BY MAIL: City of Tallahassee Utility Customer Operations
435 N. Macomb St.
Tallahassee, FL 32301
Or Fax To: 850-891-0901
Also - take a look at the Natural Gas Installer List to get quotes!
Additional Information:
Convert to clean, efficient natural gas for your cooking and heating needs. Find out if natural gas is available in your neighborhood. The City will connect gas from street-to-house for no charge if the customer uses a natural gas water heater or furnace. Appliance installations must be permitted and inspected by City or County Growth Management in order to receive rebates.
Gas Clothes Dryers - Up to $200
Clothes dry faster with gas but the heat isn't bone dry - it has some moisture. Clothes smell fresher and feel softer. Operates for about 50% less cost than electric.
Upgrade Appliance to Natural Gas
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$200 |
| Replace with Another Natural Gas Appliance |
$150 |
Natural Gas Furnace - Up to $700
Heats rooms quickly and even on the coldest days it breezes 120 to 125 degree air from room registers. The typical setup: A gas furnace matched with a cool-only central electric air conditioner. This is a system that lasts a long time: The gas furnace only operates in winter, the electric air conditioner only operates in summer.
| Upgrade Appliance to Natural Gas |
$700 |
| Replace with Another Natural Gas Appliance |
$350 |
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Gas Outdoor Barbecue Grills - Up to $100
Rediscover outdoor cooking with a natural gas grill and reduce your summer air conditioning costs. Gas grills are fast, easy and economical. Cleaning is simple: Turn on high for a few minutes, turn off and scrape. Gas fuel cost per cookout is less than one-fourth the cost of using charcoal.
| Upgrade Appliance to Natural Gas |
$100 |
| Replace with Another Natural Gas Appliance |
$75 |
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Natural Gas Fire Logs - $50
Gas fire logs provide a clean, pleasant heat source without wood to handle or ashes to remove, no flying sparks or embers to worry about and no creosote build-up.
- Vented fire logs (beauty logs) produce warm yellow flames and the soothing glow of a wood fire. Efficiency is good compared to a wood fire - 47% to 60% for vented fire logs vs. 23% for wood - but not as good as unvented fire logs (see below). If you want to gather the family around the fireplace for popcorn and Scrabble, this is probably the way to go. Vented fire logs provide heat, but not so much that you're driven back from the hearth.
- Unvented fire logs (heating logs) and wood stove-style gas heaters are 99+% efficient. Virtually all the heat produced goes into the house, almost none escapes up the chimney. Unvented gas firelogs typically range in size from 20,000 to 40,000 btu's heat output per hour.
| Upgrade Appliance to Natural Gas |
$50 |
| Replace with Another Natural Gas Appliance |
$50 |
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Gas Outdoor Lights - $50
Along a patio, yard or driveway, gas outdoor lights create a romantic, old-time ambiance. Gas lights with quad burners produce illumination equivalent to a 100 watt electric bulb. The amber glow of a gas light creates soft shadows and doesn't attract insects. Constructed of heavy cast aluminum and tempered glass with brass valves and trim, these lights last for years with little or no maintenance.
| Upgrade Appliance to Natural Gas |
$50 |
| Replace with Another Natural Gas Appliance |
$50 |
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Gas Pool and Spa Heaters - Up to $450
Extend your swimming season with a gas pool heater! Accurate temperature controls prevent overheating and wasted energy. Recent improvements include automatic ignition and thermal efficiencies of 75 percent or higher.
| Upgrade Appliance to Natural Gas |
$450 |
| Replace with Another Natural Gas Appliance |
$250 |
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Gas Ranges and Ovens - Up to $200
Expert chefs prefer gas cooking. Why?
- Flames heat pans uniformly.
- Heat starts and stops fast.
- Experienced chefs learn to gauge exact heat levels by sighting the height and shape of burner flames.
- Gas range tops are particularly well suited to canning and specialty cooking with woks.
- A gas oven provides extremely accurate temperature control, plus or minus ½ degree.
- In a gas oven the air is moist. For that reason gas is especially preferred for baking breads and pastries.
- Operating a gas range costs about 30% less than electric.
| Upgrade Appliance to Natural Gas |
$200 |
| Replace with Another Natural Gas Appliance |
$150 |
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Tank or Tankless Water Heaters - Up to $675
The newer natural gas tankless water heaters heat your water on demand and deliver hot water as long as you need it.
| Upgrade Appliance to Natural Gas |
$675 |
| Replace with Another Natural Gas Appliance |
$300 |
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RESIDENTIAL DOUBLE REBATE TERMS & CONDITIONS
- The maximum total double-rebate award per customer for all rebate types, gas and/or electric, is $2,750.
- You must have or install a natural gas water heater or furnace to receive range, dryer, firelog, grill, pool/spa or gas light rebates.
- A permit must be obtained for each installation during the dates specified above.
- An inspection must be conducted (or the contractor must participate in the inspection sticker program) and must be completed by August 29, 2013.
- A local retailer and / or contractor is required.
- A paid receipt for the work completed must be submitted with this form unless you are participating in the City's loan program.
- Upon receipt of all completed paperwork and final inspection of the installations, rebates will be processed within two weeks of completion and the rebate will be reflected as a credit to the homeowner's City of Tallahassee utility bill; or may be assigned to the installer upon written request by the homeowner/customer.
- Rebates cannot exceed the total installed cost for the appliance(s) and will not be given for stub-outs – appliances must be installed.
- Appliances must be new, not used.
- Rebates are only for the first new (or replacement) natural gas appliance of each type at a given address, except for gas lights.
- Replacement appliance rebates (column B) are for natural gas-to-natural gas appliance replacements.
- "Combination appliances", which heat the home as well as the water, qualify for the furnace PLUS water heater rebates only if a complete new system is installed (high capacity gas water heater, hydronic loop and controls).