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Power your home for up to 3 days using your EV9 battery during an outage.
Save and earn money, while enhancing your EV’s performance.
Concerned about degrading your EV9's battery? This program is actually designed to improve your battery’s health while paying you!
Maintain your vehicle's range for longer,
push out your battery replacement date.
Start by filling out this form. If confirmed as eligible, your spot in the rebate queue will be saved.
Following your pre-order of the charger hardware package with Wallbox (using a refundable $100 deposit), conduct a virtual home compatibility check with COIL. Then approve your installation quote.
Pay your nonrefundable utility interconnection fee, and agree to the program terms. This secures your official spot to participate in the program!
Install your charger with COIL who first handles utility interconnection and city permitting for you.
Begin participating in grid events to earn up to $1,350 over 12 months. Your charger is now operational.
If your rebate status was confirmed, submit receipts to Bidirectional Energy, and receive your rebate payment.
Get started today! This pilot program is first-come, first-served.
The maximum rebate for the Connecticut program is $10,889.
Beyond the rebate, once you are installed and activated, you will also receive up to $1,350 in performance payments over the first year for participating in load-reduction events. These payments are separate from the rebate.
The IRS Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit may offer an additional $1,000 in tax savings, but each homeowner is responsible to confirm eligibility directly with the IRS and pursue this separately.
The Quasar 2 hardware costs ~$6.5K to purchase from Wallbox. See below for installation costs.
Please note that to participate in the Bidirectional Energy program, you should first confirm your eligibility here. Once accepted, we will direct you to Wallbox to purchase the charger.
If you want home backup during grid shutdowns, you’ll need to additionally purchase from Wallbox a Power Recovery Unit (PRU), which costs an additional ~$3K. This device activates and deactivates “island” mode, allowing your Quasar 2 to direct power from your EV to your home for up to a few days without sending any power back to the grid. See below for additional installation costs.
To install the charger itself will cost $2K-$4K to install depending on your home’s electrical configuration.
If you want home backup, the Power Recovery Unit (PRU) costs an additional $1.3K-$2K to install.
Eversource and UI/Avangrid charge a $200 application fee for the installation of an EV charger.
Permit fees generally range from $100–$400 depending on your local jurisdiction.
End-to-end, the process is estimated to take 3.5-5 months.
The physical installation itself typically takes one day. Despite coordinating with both your city (for permit inspection) and your utility (on metering and interconnection), the goal of our electrician partners at COIL is to schedule all required visits in one coordinated day if at all possible.
The single largest driver of timing is the utility interconnection process, which can take up to 3 months.
Other items can be completed within an additional 2-6 weeks.
Reimbursement should be sent from Bidirectional Energy approximately 6 weeks after installation.
This phase of the overall pilot lasts one year with the utilities. Connecticut utilities may choose to continue load-reduction payments in the future, but at this point these are authorized for the first year only.
2026 models are natively equipped with a NACS charging port (the standard created by Tesla), and 2025 models are equipped with CCS (a more broadly used standard). Charger manufacturer, Wallbox, will ship the appropriate CCS<>NACS adapter depending on the year of your vehicle.
