Energy Efficiency

Vectren Energy Delivery offers commercial customers in Indiana electric rebates for the installation of certain types of equipment in newly constructed buildings through its Energy Design Assistance (EDA) program and its Design Team Service Incentive. Eligible projects will receive prescriptive incentives from Energizing Indiana as outlined in the program applications and websites.

Standard EDA

Standard EDA targets buildings that are less than 100,000 square feet. The Vectren New Construction program offers electrical energy-saving incentives for equipment and systems that exceed Indiana Energy Code requirements or standard industry practice and are not eligible for prescriptive incentives from Vectren or Energizing Indiana. Incentives are based on the forecasted electric energy savings. Custom projects must be preapproved prior to the project’s start. Eligible custom projects earn up to $0.12 per kilowatt hour (kWh) saved. Incentives are limited to $100,000 per customer per calendar year.

Enhanced EDA

Vectren offers a one-time, lump-sum incentive to building owners for participation in the Enhanced EDA program. Enhanced EDA targets new commercial buildings greater than 100,000 square feet. Facilities must exceed Indiana Energy Code requirements by 10 percent in order to qualify for an Enhanced EDA incentive. Facilities earn $0.12 per kilowatt hour (kWh) saved up to $100,000 based on the first-year energy savings determined in the final energy model. Technologies that are eligible for Energizing Indiana’s prescriptive incentives will be paid through Energizing Indiana and will not be paid out at $0.12 per kWh through EDA.

Design Team Service Incentive

The design team service incentive is a fixed amount based on the new, conditioned square footage and is paid to the designated design team lead provided that the proposed energy efficiency projects associated with the construction documents exceed a minimum energy savings threshold in units of kilowatt-hours (kWh):

Small (<25,000 square feet): $750 (25,000 kWh threshold)

Medium (25,000-100,000 square feet): $2,250 (75,000 kWh threshold)

Large (>100,000 square feet): $3,750 (150,000 kWh threshold) or $5,000 (10% beyond code)

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) offers the Energy Right Solutions Program for commercial and industrial facilities.  Prescriptive rebates are available for lighting, motors, HVAC, and kitchen equipment.  Custom incentives providing $0.10 per kWh saved are also available.  Both prescriptive and custom incentives are capped at 70% of a project's cost.  

Truckee Donner Public Utility District (TDPUD) offers incentives for customers to improve the energy efficiency of homes and businesses. Participants must be a TDPUD electric customer (and water customer for incentives for clothes washers) to participate. 

Tipmont REMC customers are eligible for rebates for the installation of efficient water heaters and air-source and geothermal heat pumps. A rebate is also available for the recycling of older, less efficient refrigerators and stand alone freezers. Air-source heat pumps are eligible for rebates between $150 and $450, while geothermal heat pumps are eligible for a $500 rebate. Water Heaters with a capacity of 80 gallons or less are eligible for a $50 rebate and systems with over 80 gallons of capacity are eligible for a $100 rebate. Heat pump rebates are only eligible for single-family residences that are occupied year-round. All necessary proof of purchase information is required. Customers are also eligible for rebates from Wabash Valley Power Association. Review all program information on the web site listed above. 

The TNMP SCORE/CitySmart program helps school facilities and local governments identify energy efficiency opportunities in existing and newly planned facilities and provides financial incentives to help implement the projects. The programs are funded by the TNMP and offered at no cost to participants. No products or services are sold through the CitySmart or SCORE Programs. Non-financial incentives include customized energy performance benchmarking, energy master planning workshops, technical energy efficiency assistance, and communications and public relations support. Cash incentives of $200-$325 per kilowatt (kW) reduction in peak demand are available.

Commercial Solutions

The TNMP Commercial Solutions program provides incentives for new construction or the retrofit installation of a wide range of measures that reduce customer energy costs, reduce peak demand, or save energy in non-residential facilities.  Incentives are paid to energy efficiency service providers on the basis of standardized savings calculations according to the Texas Technical Reference Manual or on the basis of measured and verified savings. Cash incentives vary by technology and are based on a project’s reductions in peak demand (kW) and energy consumption (kilowatt-hours (kWh)), as follows:

Lighting: $100/kW + $0.02/kWh

LEDs*: $125/kW + $0.03/kWh

HVAC DX: $125/kW + $0.03/kWh

Chiller: $150/kW + $0.03/kWh

Motors*: $150/kW + $0.03/kWh

VFD*: $100/kW + $0.02/kWh

Window Film*: $50/kW + $0.02/kWh

Roofing*: $150/kW + $0.03/kWh

Other: $125/kW + $0.03/kWh

*  Retrofit projects only

Small Business

The Open for Small Business Program is designed to offer contractor and customer education on energy efficiency technologies, equip participating contractors with the tools they need to succeed in generating revenue from projects in the small business market, and offer substantial incentive rates needed to move small (≤100 kW) and very small (≤10 kW) businesses to install energy efficient products such as high efficiency lighting and refrigeration measures. The program overcomes market barriers by providing incentives to help pay for energy efficiency upgrades. In addition, Open for Small Business Program connects customers with participating contractors that are qualified to provide design and installation services for energy efficient technologies and give customers any additional technical support to make them comfortable with the implementation of efficiency measures in their facilities.

Tacoma Power offers non-residential customers a variety of rebates and incentives for installing energy efficient technologies in new or existing facilities. Examples of available rebates include compressed air system technologies, HVAC equipment, variable frequency drives and efficient motors, lighting upgrades, and new construction. Both prescriptive and custom rebates are available for many of the technologies and measures incentivized.  

Tacoma Power’s New Construction Program is designed for commercial and business customers including industrial facilities, major remodels, offices, schools, hospitals, retail, non-profits and government buildings. Tacoma Power offers expert assistance on new commercial and major remodel construction projects. The program offers a variety of equipment rebates, prescriptive incentives, and custom incentives for efficient lighting and lighting controls, insulation levels in walls and ceilings, and heating and cooling equipment.

Tacoma Power also offers incentives for food service equipment, grocery and convenience store equipment, motel and commercial kitchen equipment and controls and energy audits. 

To encourage energy efficiency, Stearns Electric offers rebates to agricultural, industrial and commercial customers. Under this program, premium efficiency motors, adjustable speed drives, industrial cooling, retrofit and new construction lighting, dairy plate coolers, dairy free heaters, geothermal heat pumps, and vending machine controllers are eligible for rebates. Some rebates vary by system efficiency or capacity. 

Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (SMMPA) is a joint-action agency which generates and sells reliable electricity at wholesale to its eighteen non-profit, municipally-owned member utilities, and develops innovative products and services to help them deliver value to customers. Spring Valley Public Utilities, a member of SMMPA,  provides incentives for its commercial and industrial customers to improve the energy efficiency of facilities. Rebates are available for a variety of energy-efficient equipment:  lighting, HVAC, replacement motors, variable speed drives, anti-sweat heater controls for cooler/freezer doors, food service equipment, and custom measures.  Each type of equipment has minimum efficiency and performance ratings which must be met in order to qualify for the rebate.  

Southwest Gas Corporation (SWG) offers rebates to commercial customers in Arizona who purchase energy efficient natural gas equipment. All prescriptive rebates are currently closed, but customers may apply for custom incentives. 

South River EMC offers a variety of rebates encouragings its members to invest in energy efficient appliances, equipment, and home upgrades. Incentives are available for a variety of energy efficient products, which must have been purchased within 90 days of the rebate application's submission.