Choose Your Program
Advanced Homes is a free sustainable home upgrade program focused exclusively on our community of Bassett and Avocado Heights. Using grant money from the California Energy Commission, we’re partnering with fifty homeowners to create a network of Advanced Homes, decked out with the newest clean energy technologies like solar panels, battery storage, and heat pumps.
We’re striving to make Advanced Homes as accessible as possible. To be eligible for free Advanced Homes upgrades, you must be a homeowner in the Bassett or Avocado Heights neighborhoods. If you’re not sure if your address falls in one of these neighborhoods, we can help you confirm if your location qualifies.
To make sure clean energy is accessible to everyone, we also have an income qualification. If you participate in the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) program or the Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) program, you’ll likely meet our requirements too.
Even if you’re not sure if this sounds like you, join the waitlist and we will talk you through all the ins and outs of program participation!
- Complete our online form.
- A representative will contact you to confirm eligibility and answer all of your questions.
- Once eligibility is confirmed, we will provide a free inspection of your home to evaluate your home’s condition to receive energy efficiency improvements, rooftop solar, battery energy storage system, heat pump water heater upgrade, or other upgrades.
- We will help you complete an Advanced Homes enrollment form.
- Begin the process to receive up to $50,000 in new energy equipment.
Homeowners: sign up for our EV charger waitlist soon to get a Level-2 EV charger installed at your home at no cost! Charge your vehicle overnight and in the comfort of your own home.
To increase EV adoption and EV charger accessibility in San Gabriel Valley, the chargers we provide must be community chargers. You can earn money while helping out your community!*
*Community chargers will be listed on an EV charger app at the owner’s discretion. For more details about this structure, talk to a BAAEC partner.
All participants who receive a free EV charger from BAAEC can also join our EV car trial for just $100 a week. Try out an EV before buying your own! Insurance is included in the cost of the EV car trial. Eligible low-income homeowners will receive $0.50 per mile you drive (capped at $300 per month) as a thank you for participating in the program.
- Get incentives for purchasing an electric vehicle.
- Save on fuel and maintenance costs. Charging your EV costs half as much as filling up a gas tank does, plus they don’t need as much maintenance as a gas-powered car.
- It’s better for the environment and better for your health. EVs don’t contribute to air pollution like gas-powered cars.
- At least 21 years of age with 2+ years of driving experience.
- Holds a driver’s license.
- Homeowner or renter with landlord approval to install EV charger.
- Single-family home with a driveway.
- Agree to provide access to their charger (located outdoors by the driveway) to the public for at least 4
hours daily (anytime between 5 AM and midnight) - Lives in the BAAEC territory, which includes the following participating cities and communities: El Monte, South El Monte, City of Industry, La Puente, West Covina, Baldwin Park, and portions of unincorporated LA county (Bassett, Avocado Heights, Valinda, and West Puente Valley).
- Does not already own an EV.
- Does not already have an EV charger at their home.
- Valid form of payment (credit card, debit card).
- Willing to complete a survey at the beginning and end of their participation in the program.