Last DSIRE Review: 08/04/2009
Program Overview:
| State: |
Wisconsin |
| Incentive Type: |
State Rebate Program |
| Eligible Efficiency Technologies: |
Dishwasher, Refrigerators, Water Heaters, Lighting, Lighting Controls/Sensors, Chillers , Furnaces , Boilers, Heat pumps, Air conditioners, Heat recovery, Steam-system upgrades, Compressed air, Programmable Thermostats, Energy Mgmt. Systems/Building Controls, Motors, Motor-ASDs/VSDs, Processing and Manufacturing Equipment, Agricultural Equipment, Comprehensive Measures/Whole Building, Custom/Others pending approval |
| Eligible Renewable/Other Technologies: |
Geothermal Heat Pumps, Daylighting |
| Applicable Sectors: |
Commercial, Industrial, Nonprofit, Schools, Local Government, Construction, State Government, Tribal Government, Fed. Government, Agricultural |
| Amount: | Varies by equipment type | | Maximum Incentive: | Vary by equipment type; $500,000 in aggregate for all FOE grants to any individual or business during each program year (Jan. 1, 2009 - Dec. 31, 2009) | | Equipment Requirements: | Must meet Focus on Energy's standards for energy efficiency | | Funding Source: | Focus On Energy Program | | Expiration Date: | General: 06/30/2010 (current applications)
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| Web Site: |
http://www.focusonenergy.com/Incentives/Business/
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Summary:
Note: Focus On Energy occasionally issues limited time offers for "bonus" incentives for certain technologies and energy efficiency improvements. As these extra incentives typically have a very short duration, they will most often not be listed in this program summary. The program website has information on all currently available bonus incentives.
Focus on Energy offers financial incentives to eligible business customers who install many types of qualifying energy efficient equipment. The program offers both prescriptive incentives for a variety of specific improvements and custom incentives for improvements that do not fall under any of the prescriptive listings. Prescriptive measures generally apply on to existing buildings; new construction projects are addressed in a separate category. In order to receive awards participants must be a customer of a participating electric or gas utility (i.e., participating gas utility for gas incentives and participating electric utility for electricity incentives).
Below is a list of equipment categories for which prescriptive incentives are available, with short descriptions of some eligible technologies. Interested parties should see the program website for incentive amounts and more detailed qualifying criteria. - Dairy and Livestock: Ventilation fans, water heaters, and hot water storage vessels.
- Compressed Air System Audit and Leak Survey Incentive: Audits, leak surveys, air compressors equipped with variable speed drives.
- Commercial Refrigeration: Various types of related equipment, including fan motors, heater controls, LED lighting, occupancy sensors, and climate controls.
- HVAC: Boilers, furnaces, heat pumps, equipment controls, energy recovery ventilators, chillers, and certain equipment service buydowns.
- Industrial: Qualifying repulper rotors and extraction plates, pressure screen rotors, pump system studies for pulp and paper, radiant heater tubes, and radiant heater bands for plastic.
- Food Service Incentives: Various Energy Star and other qualifying food service equipment, ice machines, and commercial dishwashers.
- Greenhouse Incentives: Qualifying automatic climate controls, poly-film, fans and other equipment.
- Lighting Incentives: Qualifying lighting fixtures, lamps, occupancy sensors, etc. Mail-in rebates available for certain lighting devices.
- Motors and VFD Incentives: 3-phase efficient electric motors and qualifying variable frequency drives.
- New Construction: Various HVAC devices for newly constructed buildings and whole building design (including daylighting).
- Specialty Measure Incentives: Specific measures such as guest room energy management controls, PC control software, vending machines, and certain water heaters.
Custom incentives are available for measures not covered by prescriptive incentives. To obtain custom incentives, interested applicants must work with a Focus on Energy adviser to obtain pre-approval for projects prior to purchasing and installing the equipment. The program website contains a general list of eligible custom improvements broken down by economic sector. All equipment must be new, and existing equipment must be removed (and preferably recycled.) Projects with less than a one-and-a-half-year payback are not eligible, and projects with payback of 10 years or longer may be subject to case-by-case eligibility determinations.
Custom electricity incentives are calculated based on first-year energy savings as follows: - $0.04/kilowatt-hour and $125/peak kilowatt for electric savings for Tier 1* technologies
- $0.06/kilowatt-hour and $200/peak kilowatt for Tier 2* technologies
Custom heating incentive levels are also calculated based on first-year energy savings: - $0.40/therm for Tier 1* technologies
- $0.60/therm for Tier 2* technologies
Custom incentives are limited to $250,000 per project, and may cover no more than 30% of the project costs. Overall, an individual customer is limited to $500,000 in incentives during any program year.
* For definitions of Tier 1 and Tier 2 technologies and projects, see the program website.
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