CPUC Launches RISE Homes Initiative
On April 6, 2026, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) announced its new initiative called RISE Homes (Rebuilding Incentives for Sustainable Electric Homes), which combines natural disaster recovery with energy efficiency to help rebuild homes using cleaner and safer technologies.
RISE Homes is a statewide CPUC initiative that supports the reconstruction of residential buildings destroyed or red-tagged due to natural disasters like wildfires, storms, floods and earthquakes since the beginning of 2017. The new initiative is a $50 million program that provides financial incentives, assistance and support to rebuild all-electric, energy-efficient homes across California.
“We’re really excited to see this program launch,” said Nick Zanjani, Energy Division’s Building Decarbonization Section Supervisor. “In addition to helping families rebuild in a climate-friendly and resilient manner, this program goes a step further by also incentivizing Passive House new construction, an innovative building method that has been shown to dramatically improve energy efficiency and reduce energy bills. What we learn from this program will shape the future of new construction in very real ways.”
