Efficiency Proposal

Extra dollars help drive your customers' large energy-saving projects Earn up to $500 in personal trade incentives! Click for details

Efficiency Proposal, offers your customers an opportunity to compete for larger rebates that can help large energy-saving projects that need a financial boost to move forward.

• Rebates are available up to double our standard Custom Efficiency rebates
• Customers can bid for rebates up to:
  • $4/Mcf for gas conservation completed and submitted by 11/28/08
  • $3/Mcf for gas conservation completed and submitted by 10/31/09
  • $2/Mcf for gas conservation completed and submitted after 10/31/09
  • $300/kW for all electricity conservation
  • Rebates are competitively analyzed and awarded, so customers should bid for only what they need
• Customers submit a bid to compete with other businesses for a pool of rebate dollars
• Projects should have large conservation potential – roughly 1 GWh or 8300 Mcf per year or higher
• Multiple projects or similar projects at multiple sites can be combined to meet the minimum-conservation requirement
• Customer must receive bid-award notification prior to purchase or installation of project.

How to apply?

Submit a bid using our Efficiency Proposal bid application. If you have questions about the program or process, call 1-866-788-8163.

Businesses that are awarded rebates have 9 months from the bid award date to initiate the project and 24 months to complete the project and earn their rebate.

More information

• Efficiency Proposal program brochure
• Efficiency Proposal request for proposal
• Efficiency Proposal bid form
• How to submit a bid

Trade incentive puts big dollars in your pocket!

Earn up to $500 for helping your customers submit their bid

We know it takes some legwork to submit a project for bid consideration – but the larger rebate potential and up to $500 in your pocket can help make it well worth your while.

It’s easy to apply for your Efficiency Proposal trade incentive of 5% of the rebate amount your customer receives, up to $500. (Large projects that qualify typically earn rebates that allow you to receive the full $500.)

See the Efficiency Proposal trade incentive form for details or call Brain Hammarsten, trade relations manager at 612-330-7769.

This offer is only for bids received by July 31, 2008. See incentive form for other rules and requirements.