{"id":137,"date":"2010-03-09T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2012-08-14T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T20:05:34","slug":"massachusetts-appliance-rebates-an-even-shorter-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/massachusetts-appliance-rebates-an-even-shorter-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts appliance rebates &#8211; an even shorter window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stimulus-funded Massachusetts appliance rebate program will have an even shorter window than anticipated &#8211; two weeks.\u00a0 As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/energy-star-rebates-coming-and-going-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\">outlined in our early February post<\/a>, the program provides a needed incentive to consumers, but the funding would easily be exhausted within a month with even average demand.  Between Earth Day, <strong>April 22nd<\/strong> and\u00a0 <strong>May 5th<\/strong>, Massachusetts consumers will be able to earn rebates between $50 and $250 for purchasing certain energy efficient appliances.<\/p>\n<p>As previously described, the program, dubbed the <strong>&#8220;Great Appliance Exchange&#8221;,<\/strong> will<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>be limited to certain appliance types (expected to include refrigerators, freezers, clothes washers and dishwashers)<\/li>\n<li>require consumers to turn in the appliances being replaced<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list of qualifying appliances and participating retailers will be posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masssave.com\/gax\" target=\"_blank\">on the program&#8217;s website<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masssave.com\/gax\">http:\/\/www.masssave.com\/gax<\/a> on <strong>March 22nd<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stimulus-funded Massachusetts appliance rebate program will have an even shorter window than anticipated &#8211; two weeks.\u00a0 As outlined in our early February post, the program provides a needed incentive to consumers, but the funding would easily be exhausted within<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}