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Lighting Efficiency - CO

Lighting Efficiency Rebates

Helping Colorado businesses save money, earn cash back and improve lighting efficiency

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Overview

Rebates are available for a wide variety of lighting projects and applications including:

Retrofits of existing systems with high-efficiency equipment
Reductions in lamp quantity with high-efficiency fixture upgrades
Installations in a new building
Custom applications
Lighting redesign studies, and implementation of recommended measures

Small businesses with peak demand of 400kW or less are eligible for a free lighting assessment and energy-saving recommendations. Visit the Small Business Lighting page for more information.

Small Business Lighting

Benefits

High-efficiency lighting upgrades and rebates help your business:

Reduce monthly energy bills.
Offset any up-front costs of lighting upgrades with rebates offered for qualifying energy-efficient equipment.
Improve the lighting quality in your facility.

Don’t see your equipment listed? Contact one of our dedicated energy efficiency specialists at 1-800-481-4700 or by email to find out how much your rebate may be worth.

Details

Choose from five ways to lower your lighting costs and earn rebates:

Lighting retrofit rebates – Available for existing facilities of any size, these rebates offset the cost of installing new, more efficient lighting than what you currently have.
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 – 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 – 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 assessment of your facility and recommend lighting efficiency measures. For more information, call toll free 1-877-287-2250 to schedule your free assessment, or visit Small Business Lighting.

Small Business Lighting

Who Qualifies

Customers with a valid Xcel Energy business account in our Colorado electric service territory.

Qualifying Equipment

Please read through the individual applications below for participation qualifications and equipment eligibility.

Qualifying equipment includes:

High-efficiency fluorescent T8 systems
High-bay fluorescent systems, replacing high intensity discharge (HID) systems
Low watt T8 lamps: 28W or 25W
CFL fixtures replacing incandescent systems that use three to five times more energy
Occupancy and daylighting sensors
ENERGY STAR®-qualified interior LED screw-in or pin-based lamps, and interior LED downlight luminaires, replacing incandescent or halogen systems that use three to six times more energy
LED wall pack fixtures
Parking garage T8 Lamps
LED cooler and freezer case strip lighting (for five and six foot doors)¹ replacing less efficient fluorescent systems
Exterior LED canopy or soffit fixtures¹ replacing HID systems that use three to six times the energy
T12 to T8 optimization retrofits

¹ENERGY STAR qualification not required.

Note: Efficient lighting equipment not listed on the prescriptive rebate applications may be eligible for a Custom Efficiency rebate (preapproval is required).

How to Get Started

View the appropriate rebate application to find out how to get started.

Applications

Additional Information

If you have any questions regarding our lighting rebates, please contact your Xcel Energy account manager or the Business Solutions Center at 1-800-481-4700 or by email.

Rebate applications for 2012 T12 lighting upgrades were due on 5/1/2013. Qualifying equipment must have been invoiced and installed on or before 12/31/2012; applications must be have submitted within 12 months of the invoice date or no later than 5/1/2013, whichever came first. Prescriptive optimization rebates for T12 retrofits are available as of 5/1/2013. Please reference program rules on the application for additional information.

All other T12 fixtures upgrades may still qualify for a rebate through our Custom Efficiency program. Custom T12 projects preapproved prior to 12/31/2012 have until 11/30/2013 to be installed, invoiced, and submitted. Projects requiring re-evaluation will use standard efficiency T8 as the baseline going forward, standard efficiency T8 fixture will be used as the baseline.

Customers had until 5/1/2013 to submit completed applications for LED projects invoiced and installed before 1/1/2013 to claim the higher rebate amount.