Energy Efficiency

Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative's (SMECO) Non-Residential Energy Efficiency Program provides technical assistance and a range of incentives to commercial, industrial, municipal and institutional customers who employ energy efficient measures in new and existing facilities. The program offers prescriptive rebates for specified energy efficiency measures, while custom incentives are offered for applications which are not covered by the prescriptive program. Its New Construction Green Building program offers financial incentives to incorporate additional energy efficiency during building design. Eligible measures include HVAC systems, lighting, building controls, vending machine controls, variable frequency drives and commercial refrigeration. Under both the prescriptive and custom programs, incentives may cover up to 50% of a project's total cost for retrofit projects or up to 75% of the incremental cost for new construction and replacement of equipments. Some rebates vary by size, efficiency and type of measure employed. 

Shakopee Public Utilities (SPU) offers a wide array of rebates and incentives encouraging its commercial customers to increase the energy efficiency of their facilities. Broadly, rebates exist for new lighting as well as lighting upgrades, HVAC and variable speed drives, and custom energy saving projects.  Specific rebate amounts can be viewed in the list above or on the rebate packets available on the program's website.  For equipment without a specific rebate amount listed, the incentive is generally capped at 50% of a project's total cost.  

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:

Austin Utilities

Blooming Prairie Public Utilities

Fairmont Public Utilities

Grand Marais Public Utilities

Lake City Utilities

Lithcfield Public Utilities

Mora Municipal Utilities

New Prague Utilities Commission

North Branch Municipal Water and Light

Owatonna Public Utilities

Preston Public Utilities

Princeton Public Utilities

Redwood Falls Public Utilities

Rochester Public Utilities

Saint Peter Municipal Utilities

Spring Valley Public Utilities

Waseca Utilities

Wells Public Utilities

It develops innovative products and services to help them deliver value to customers. With help from SMMPA, Saint Peter Municipal Utilities 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.

RushShelby Energy provides customers with incentives to help offset the cost of installing energy efficient equipment in participating homes and facilities. Rebates are available for energy efficient central air conditioners, mobile home heat pumps, dual fuel heat pumps, geothermal heat pumps, duct sealing and water heaters. Rebates vary depending on the size and efficiency of the equipment and the type of system that it is replacing. RushShelby Energy will also trade out and collect incandescent bulbs and replace them with 60 and 100 watt equivalent CFLs, free of charge. 

The Central Iowa Power Cooperative (CIPCO) is a generation and transmission cooperative serving 12 rural electric cooperatives (REC) and one municipal electric cooperative in the state of Iowa. They are:
 

Clark Electric Cooperative 

Consumers Energy Cooperative 

East-Central Iowa REC 

Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative

Farmers Electric Cooperative

Guthrie REC

Linn County REC

Maquoketa Valley Electric Cooperative

Midland Power Cooperative 

Pella Cooperative Electric Association 

Southwest Iowa REC 

T.I.P. REC 

CIPCOs’ members serve a population of nearly 320,000 rural and urban residents in 58 of Iowa’s 99 counties. Each has established energy efficiency rebate programs to encourage greater efficiency in members' homes, farms and businesses. 

Rochester Public Utilities (RPU) offers incentives to commercial and industrial customers that install energy-efficient equipment in eligible facilities. Rebates are available for lighting equipment, HVAC equipment, anti-sweat heater controls for cooler/freezer doors, heat pumps (air and ground source), food service equipment, motors and variable speed drives. Rebates on Energy Star appliances are also available through this program. Custom energy efficiency rebates, including equipment and measures not found in the formal rebate program, are also available to RPU customers. Applications must be submitted and approved before the new equipment is installed. Customers must submit original invoices with the quantity, price of materials, purchase or order date, installation costs, and all applicable tax information.

Riverland Energy Cooperative offers a number of rebates for the purchase and installation of efficient lighting fixtures, air conditioners, heat pumps, water heaters, central electric thermal storage units, and agricultural equipment.  All rebates except for the lighting rebates require load management control. Rebates also exist for home energy audits, implementation of improvements suggested by home energy audits, and also for custom, creative energy efficient measures. 

River Falls Municipal Utility (RFMU) offers a variety of rebates to business customers for implementing energy efficient equipment upgrades. Incentives are available for commercial lighting, central AC tune-ups, LED exit signs, and custom projects.

Custom offerings include the Shared Savings Program, which provides incentives between $2,500 and $50,000 to cover the sometimes daunting upfront cost of energy efficiency improvements. Repayments are made through monthly installments on a customer's utility bill. Repayment plans are based on the savings generated from the implemented energy efficiency measures. As a result, the amount paid on a customer's utility bill should remain basically unchanged.

The Efficient Lighting Program for businesses provides flexible incentives encouraging businesses to upgrade their facility's lighting system.  For this program, RFMU has partnered with Wisconsin Focus on Energy, and will match lighting incentives provided by the Focus on Energy program up to $5,000.

The Energy Improvement Program includes possible incentives for improved lighting, HVAC, motors, drives, compressed air, food service equipment, agricultural equipment and specialty measures. Large-scale efficiency projects may be eligible for the RFP for Energy Efficiency Program, which requires annual energy consumption to be reduced by 100,000 kWh and peak demand to be reduced by at least 20 kW during summer months. Finally, RFMU also provides .consultation and technical services are also provided for qualified new construction and school projects. 

Wisconsin Focus On Energy provides additional rebates which are available to RFMU customers, but may not be offered directly through the utility.  

RG&E offers a lighting incentive program designed to serve small business customers with demand than an average of 110 kilowatts (kw) per month. These small business customers may schedule a free energy assessment and then receive up to 70% off of the installed cost of recommended equipment upgrades. Small business customers must schedule a free energy assessment before any recommendations or incentives can be offered. 

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. With help from SMMPA, Redwood Falls Public Utilities 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.