DENVER -- The Colorado State Energy-Efficient Appliance Rebate Program, popularly known as Cash for Appliances, is scheduled to begin in March 2010.

The state will implement a mail-in rebate program to help consumers replace older appliances with new, Energy Star-listed appliances. Residents must apply for the rebates online. The program will continue until Colorado’s funds for the program run out.

Colorado’s eligible appliances include:

• Refrigerators
• Clothes washers
• Dishwashers
• Gas storage water heaters
• Gas tankless water heaters
• Gas furnaces
• Gas boilers

Colorado encourages consumers to recycle their old appliances.

The program is one of 56 State Energy-Efficient Appliance Rebate Programs, popularly known as Cash for Appliances, that are being set up in the United States and six U.S. territories with the help of federal stimulus money.

Colorado received about $4.7 million of the nearly $300 million available nationwide for the program from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

For more information on the Cash for Appliances program, visit the Colorado Governor's Energy Office Web site .