---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 15853"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "15853"
heading: "Rebate program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/15853"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter II — Renewable Energy"
  - "Part A — General Provisions"
---

# §15853. Rebate program

- (1) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall establish a program providing rebates for consumers for expenditures made for the installation of a renewable energy system in connection with a dwelling unit or small business.
- (2) **Amount of rebate—** Rebates provided under the program established under [paragraph (1)](#1) shall be in an amount not to exceed the lesser of—
  - (A) 25 percent of the expenditures described in [paragraph (1)](#1) made by the consumer; or
  - (B) $3,000.
- (3) **Definition—** For purposes of this section, the term “renewable energy system” has the meaning given that term in [section 6865(c)(6)(A) of this title](/usc/42/6865.md?p=c-6-A).
- (4) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) for carrying out this section, to remain available until expended—
  - (A) $150,000,000 for fiscal year 2006;
  - (B) $150,000,000 for fiscal year 2007;
  - (C) $200,000,000 for fiscal year 2008;
  - (D) $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; and
  - (E) $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2010.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title II, § 206(c), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 655.)