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Lighting Efficiency - CO
Lighting Efficiency
Colorado businesses save money, earn rebates while improving lighting quality
Overview
Colorado businesses can save money and earn rebates while improving lighting quality without cutting corners through Lighting Efficiency.
For a limited time, qualified customers can earn an even bigger rebate. See Benefits for more details.
Installing energy-efficient lighting and controls can help you significantly lower energy bills, earn substantial rebates and improve lighting quality.
We offer rebates on a wide variety of lighting projects and applications including retrofits of existing systems, reductions in the number of lamps (delamping), upgrades as part of a renovation, installations in a new building, small business lighting projects and custom applications.
Benefits
When you take advantage our Lighting Efficiency rebates, you:
- Choose from five different ways to lower costs and earn rebates
- Can capitalize on 50% bonus rebate on upgrading old T12 lighting for a limited time
- Lower upfront costs and shorten your payback - typically three years or less
- Benefit from longer life, reduced maintenance, improved color quality and less glare
Limited-time bonus rebates for upgrading obsolete T12 lighting
For a limited time, we are offering up to a 50% bonus rebates to convert inefficient T12 fluorescent lighting systems. Due to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) regulations, the manufacture of nearly all T12 fluorescent lighting will be phased out in 2012 and will no longer be available.
After 2012, maintaining a T12 system will become difficult and expensive. Upgrade your system now to avoid increased equipment and maintenance costs. To assist you, we’re offering bonus rebates for:
- T12 – T8 retrofits
- T12 – T8 delamping
- T12 – T5 retrofits
Beginning March 8, 2011 through March 31, 2012, these 50% bonus rebates are available to business electricity customers in Colorado - above and beyond current rebate levels - for select T12 upgrades. Rebates can not exceed 75% of the cost.
| Current Rebate Levels (per retrofitted fixture) | New 50% Bonus Rebate Levels1 (per retrofitted fixture) |
|---|---|
| $13.00 - $26.00 | $19.50 - $39.00 |
1 Bonus rebates are also available through our Small Business Lighting program for business customers with peak demand of 400 kW or less. Please contact Franklin Energy, our Small Business Lighting consultant, at 877-287-2250 to schedule a free lighting audit or for more information.
Details
Choose from five ways to lower your lighting costs and earn rebates:
- Lighting retrofit rebates – Available for existing facilities of any size, our one-to-one retrofit rebates offset the cost of installing new, more efficient lighting.
- New construction lighting rebates – Available for new facilities or those going through major renovations, we reward you for choosing more efficient lighting than standard options.
- Custom Efficiency lighting rebates – Custom Efficiency lighting rebates are available for energy-saving lighting projects not included in our prescriptive rebate program. Requires preapproval before equipment purchase and installation.
- Lighting redesign studies and rebates – A lighting redesign study can help determine the proper lighting levels for your space. We help fund studies and offer cash rebates of up to $400 per kW saved when you make recommended changes. Requires preapproval.
- Small Business Lighting - Available for existing small and mid-sized facilities that have a peak demand of 400 kW or less. Our lighting consultant, Franklin Energy, will conduct a free lighting audit of your facility and recommend lighting efficiency measures. For more information, call toll free at 1-877-287-2250 to schedule your audit, or visit the Small Business Lighting program page. See link below under Additional Information.
LED prescriptive rebates now available
LEDs have been added to the prescriptive retrofit and new construction lighting rebate programs and include the following equipment:
- ENERGY STAR® qualified interior LED screw-in or pin-based lamps
- ENERGY STAR qualified interior LED downlight luminaires
- Exterior LED canopy and soffit fixtures2
- Refrigerated LED case lighting for doors of five and six feet2
2 ENERGY STAR qualification not required.
See the appropriate application for more details on eligible equipment.
Who Qualifies
To qualify, you:
- Must be a business electricity customer of Xcel Energy in Colorado.
- Have an existing or new construction facility where you install qualified, energy-efficient lighting (see Qualifying equipment for more details).
How to Get Started
To earn rebates, invoices for 2011 Applications must be dated January 1, 2011 or after. Other retrofit options, including 2010 invoicing, must be submitted to Xcel Energy within 12 months of the invoice date.
See the appropriate application for more details.
Qualifying Equipment
Qualified equipment and applications for prescriptive rebates include:
- High efficiency fluorescent T8 fixtures – retrofits and lamp reduction (delamping)
- Fluorescent T5 retrofits
- Installing CFL lamps or fixtures
- High-bay fluorescent fixtures
- LED exit signs and
- Occupancy sensors, to name a few
Now, LED Lighting equipment is also eligible including:
- ENERGY STAR qualified interior, screw-in or pin-based LED lamps – up to 20 watts
- ENERGY STAR qualified interior LED luminaires/downlights – up to 50 watts
- Exterior LED canopy and soffit fixtures – 25 to 150 watts3
- Refrigerated LED case lighting for doors of five and six feet3
3 ENERGY STAR qualification not required.
Note: Applications and equipment that are not qualified for prescriptive rebates may be eligible for a Custom Efficiency rebate (preapproval is required).
Additional Information
If you have any questions regarding our lighting rebates, please contact your Xcel Energy representative or the Business Solutions Center at 1-800-481-4700.
Limited-time bonus rebates for upgrading obsolete T12 lighting
Upgrade your T12 system now to avoid increased equipment and maintenance costs. Our 50% bonus rebates are available for:
- T12 – T8 retrofits
- T12 – T8 optimization
- T12 – T5 retrofits
These bonus rebates are available to Colorado business customers between select T12 upgrades and may not exceed 75% of cost.
Bonus Rebate Eligibility:
- 3/8/11 – 3/31/12 up to 50% bonus rebate
- 4/1/12 – 12/31/12 up to 30% bonus rebate
- No T12 rebates be available in 2013
