EV charging incentives in NYC and on Long Island, 2026

Con Edison SmartCharge New York

SmartCharge New York (opens an external site) serves drivers who charge in Con Edison's territory in New York City and Westchester County. The published incentives:

• 10 cents per kWh for charging between midnight and 8 a.m., every day of the year.
• A $25 bonus per vehicle or charger after three months of charging, which need not be consecutive.
• From June 1 to September 30, $35 for each month in which you avoid charging on weekdays from 2 to 6 p.m., plus a $35 bonus for avoiding it all summer.
• A $25 referral incentive for you and the person you refer.
• Con Edison reports that participants earn about $400 a year on average.

Drivers on a residential or small-business time-of-use rate (Service Classifications 1 and 2) are not eligible. You need not be a Con Edison customer, but the charging must take place in Con Edison's service area, and some Queens and Westchester ZIP codes fall outside it. Enrollment is through scny.ev.energy using the car's connected services or a compatible charger. The program does not control your charging; it rewards the timing you choose. Commercial fleets have a separate program, SmartCharge Commercial.

Because SmartCharge excludes time-of-use customers, a Con Edison household has to pick one. Whole-house time-of-use tends to pay more when other large, flexible loads also move off-peak, such as a heat-pump water heater, laundry or a dishwasher. SmartCharge on the standard rate tends to pay more when the car is the only load that shifts. We do not publish rate figures because they change; we model both options from twelve months of your Con Edison bills and interval data. A household that enrolls in SmartCharge while on a time-of-use rate earns nothing from it.

PSEG Long Island rebate and rates

• Residential Charger Rebate (opens an external site): $100 toward a Level 2 charger on the EPRI Vetted Product List for PSEG Long Island. Customers in Disadvantaged Communities and on the Household Assistance Program can receive an additional $300, for $400 in total; confirm eligibility with PSEG Long Island.
• Time-of-Day Rate 194: the peak period is 3 to 7 p.m. on weekdays; weekends and federal holidays are entirely off-peak.
• Super Off-Peak Rate 195: the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. period is discounted by up to 40 percent against the flat rate, with higher prices in the 3 to 7 p.m. peak; the other periods are 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. It suits households that charge overnight.
• Managed charging: since July 2025, ChargeScape has enrolled BMW and Ford drivers in PSEG Long Island's Peak Load Reduction program. Incentive amounts were not stated in the announcements; check the terms when your car prompts you to enroll.

For the rebate, the charger must be on the EPRI list at the time of purchase, and the application needs installation photos showing the model and serial number. We take those photos during installation and prepare the paperwork with the customer.

Battery programs exclude EVs

Con Edison's Bring Your Own Battery program (opens an external site) pays $100 per kW of average seasonal performance. The season runs from May 1 to September 30, and events usually last up to four hours between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. on weekdays. Eligible equipment includes the Tesla Powerwall+, Powerwall 2 and Powerwall 3 and certain SolarEdge inverter and battery combinations; EnergyHub administers the program. NYSERDA announced on January 22, 2026 that enrollment will become a requirement for its residential storage incentive once Con Edison's program is live, with at least three weeks' notice.

For scale: a 13.5 kWh battery that delivers 80 percent of its capacity over a four-hour event averages 2.7 kW, which at $100 per kW comes to about $270 a year. PSEG Long Island's Battery Storage Rewards program (opens an external site) runs from May 1 to September 30 with fewer than 10 events a season, each up to four hours and announced at least 21 hours ahead; the participating battery company sets the payment.

Electric vehicles are not listed as eligible in either program, and vehicle-to-grid exports do not qualify for these battery payments.

Make-ready funding in 2026

• On March 23, 2026, in Case 18-E-0138, the New York Public Service Commission directed the Joint Utilities to suspend new Level 2 and DC fast charging make-ready applications, effective 30 days later. DC fast charging may reopen once the items in the order are addressed.
• Con Edison PowerReady (opens an external site): as of April 22, 2026, Con Edison no longer accepts Level 2 project applications, and DC fast charging applications are paused until further notice. Projects on the waitlist keep their place but are not guaranteed eligibility under a future program.
• PSEG Long Island, which is not directly bound by the order, still accepts Level 2 projects, with up to $6,500 per port for customer-side work and up to $20,000 for utility-side work under its published tiers; confirm current amounts with PSEG Long Island. DC fast charging offers up to $45,000 per port and $100,000 utility-side, but pre-approvals are on hold for the rest of 2026 under Program Announcement EVMR 2026-03 (April 21, 2026).
• PSEG Long Island also offers a 50 percent demand-charge rebate for public DC fast chargers on Rate 281 during 2026, and an EV Phase-In Rate for Rate 281 is expected in January 2027.
• NYSERDA Charge Ready NY 2.0 (opens an external site) offers $3,000 per port at workplaces, multifamily buildings and hotels, plus $1,000 per port in Disadvantaged Communities, and $1,000 per port for spaces assigned to one driver or reserved for fleets. NYSERDA added $15 million in February 2026, bringing the budget to $28 million. Applications are accepted until December 31, 2026 or until funds are exhausted, and rebates are paid after installation.

A waitlist position is not a commitment of funds. We advise co-op and condominium boards not to budget a project on make-ready money until it is approved.

Programs that can be combined

The federal 30C charger credit ended for property placed in service after June 30, 2026. For the vehicle itself, NYSERDA's Drive Clean Rebate offers $500 to $2,000 at the point of sale, and New York added $30 million to it in April 2026. We are contractors, not tax advisors; for tax questions, consult a CPA.

Vehicle-to-grid payments

We found no residential vehicle-to-grid export tariff in Con Edison or PSEG Long Island territory as of October 2026. New York's experience so far is limited to pilots: electric school buses in White Plains with Con Edison, and a fleet project in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in 2023 that was compensated through the state's Value of Distributed Energy Resources tariff. By comparison, Shenzhen paid 4 yuan per kWh during a city-wide V2G event in 2025, and Tesla runs an invitation-only Cybertruck program in Texas.

In New York today the money is in not charging at peak times, through SmartCharge or a time-of-use rate, and in stationary batteries enrolled in utility programs. We file the PSEG Long Island rebate paperwork with each installation and compare SmartCharge against time-of-use from your bills; licensed partner electricians perform the installation in NYC and on Long Island.