What if the technology adoption subsidies driving the energy transition make relatively low socioeconomic status agents more likely to adopt, and thus widen access to the technology and its benefits? This would mitigate concerns about relatively high-status agents capturing too much of subsidy program budgets – concerns which create transition frictions. We compare the socioeconomic status of households that adopted during an adoption subsidy program to the socioeconomic status of households that adopted before the program existed. Households that adopted during the subsidy program were 15 percent lower in socioeconomic status on average. Further tests imply that, while relatively high-status households may capture a larger share of a technology adoption subsidy budget, a technology adoption subsidy itself widens access to the technology by relatively low-status households.