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Small Business Lighting - CO
Small Business Lighting
Colorado small and midsized businesses with peak demand of 400kW or less can get rebates and on-site services
Overview
Receive a free (no obligation) lighting audit performed by Franklin Energy. Then implement needed improvements that are right for your small to midsized business, which can earn significant rebates and lead to lower energy costs.
Our Small Business Lighting program offers rebates on a wide range of lighting upgrades.
Contact Franklin Energy by calling 1-877-287-2250 or emailing xcelsbl@franklinenergy.com
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.
Details
Through the free (no obligation) lighting audit, Franklin Energy, will:
- Identify cost-saving opportunities and recommend optimal lighting choices.
- Serve as liaison between you and your vendor.
- Complete and submit your rebate paperwork.
Who Qualifies
To qualify, you must:
- Be a small or midsized business electric customer of Xcel Energy in Colorado.
- Have a peak demand of 400 kW or less.
How to Get Started
- Call our lighting consultant, Franklin Energy at 1-877-287-2250 and schedule a free (no obligation) audit at your facility.
- After conducting the free (no obligation) lighting audit, Franklin Energy will recommend cost-effective, energy-efficient lighting options for your business.
- Once you decide which option is best for you, Franklin Energy will serve as a liaison between you and your lighting contractor throughout the retrofit process to ensure quality installation (or help you locate a contractor if you don’t have one).
- Franklin Energy will assist you in completing and submitting any paperwork required to receive your rebates.
For a full list of qualifying equipment and rebate amounts, see the applications listed below.
Rebate Applications
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
- LED wall pack fixtures
- Parking garage T8 lamps
- Occupancy sensors, to name a few
- ENERGY STAR®-qualified interior LED screw-in or pin-based lamps
- ENERGY STAR-qualified interior LED luminaires/downlights
- Exterior LED canopy and soffit fixtures1
- Refrigerated LED Case Lighting for five and six foot doors1
- T12 to T8 optimization retrofits
1 Exterior canopy and soffit lighting, and refrigerated case lighting does not have a requirement to be ENERGY STAR qualified.
Additional Information
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.
