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Incentives of up to 100% of project costs for eligible small businesses

New, highly efficient LED lighting can help you lower your monthly expenses while improving conditions for customers and employees.

We can help, with incentives for eligible small businesses that significantly reduce the cost of LED lighting and lighting control upgrades.

Whether you’re trying to make an inviting space for customers or creating a safe, efficient place to get things done, good lighting makes all the difference. 

Get more information via the Wattsmart Small Business brochure and enhanced lighting incentives (español). Plus, check out these videos (español).

To connect to a Wattsmart Small Business Approved Contractor, call 1-855-805-7231, inquire by email or click the button below.

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Who’s eligible?

As part of our small business incentive offer, we have enhanced incentives for very small businesses, and small businesses in highly impacted communities.

Washington Small Business Lighting Incentives: Washington small businesses on rate schedule 24 with annual usage less than or equal to 300,000 kWh (non-residential facility total) and/or total non-residential facility square footage of 20,000 square feet or less are eligible to participate.

Washington Very Small Business and Named Community Small Business Incentives: If you meet the above eligibility requirements and have annual usage less than or equal to 30,000 kWh annually (non-residential facility total) or are located in a Highly Impacted Community, you may be eligible for incentives up to 100% of eligible project costs. 

Lighting Incentives for Small Businesses

  1. GET QUALIFIED: Contact a Wattsmart Small Business Approved Contractor to see if you qualify and schedule a free facility assessment. Call us at 1-855-805-7231 or email us at wattsmartbusiness@pacificpower.net.
  2. COMPLETE YOUR APPLICATION: Your Approved Contractor will prepare a project proposal, which will include the incentive and any remaining project costs not covered by the incentive. Once you review it and sign, your contractor will begin. You’ll assign your incentive to the Approved Contractor, who will pass 100% of the incentive on their invoice to you and take care of the paperwork.
  3. GET THE UPGRADE: The Approved Contractor will install your new lighting. We may request to inspect your lighting upgrades to verify energy savings and quality of installation.
  4. SETTLE ANY REMAINING COSTS: You’ll pay the Approved Contractor the balance of any project costs not covered by the incentives.
  5. Enjoy energy savings and better lighting!

Note: Pacific Power does not warrant the performance of qualifying installed equipment or the quality of the installation provided by the Approved Contractor.

Customer Eligibility Requirements

Equipment Eligibility Requirements

Customer Incentive

Small business

LED Lighting Retrofits (not listed below)

$0.38/kWh

LED Exterior Full Fixture Replacement (except Street Lighting)

With upgrade to Advanced Dimming Controls

$0.18/kWh

Without Controls Upgrade

$0.10/kWh

LED Exterior Fixture Retrofit Kits (except Street Lighting)

With upgrade to Advanced Dimming Controls

$0.12/kWh

Without Controls Upgrade

$0.09/kWh

LED Exterior Replacement Lamps (except Street Lighting)

With or without controls upgrade

$0.07/kWh

Lighting Controls (interior only)

PIR, Dual Tech, Integral Sensor or Basic Controls

$0.32/kWh

Advanced Network Lighting Controls

$0.38/kWh

Notes for enhanced incentives for small businesses – lighting table:

1. Incentives for equipment listed in this table are only available for small business customers meeting customer eligibility requirements posted on Pacific Power’s website.

2. To be eligible for the incentives listed, the new lighting system must use less energy than the existing lighting system replaced or the baseline lighting system as determined by Pacific Power.

3. Incentives are paid per kWh annual energy savings as determined by Pacific Power. Incentives are capped at 90 percent of Energy Efficiency Project Costs. Energy Efficiency Project Costs and energy savings are subject to Pacific Power approval.

4. To be eligible for program incentives, installed lighting must be listed on one of the following Qualified Product Lists (QPL): DesignLights Consortium or ENERGY STAR®.

5. Lighting control incentives ($/kWh) are paid per kWh annual energy savings from the installation of lighting controls as determined by Pacific Power.
LED –Light Emitting Diode
PIR – Passive infrared

To be eligible for the incentives listed above, the lighting retrofit must be completed by a Wattsmart Small Business Lighting approved contractor.

Washington small businesses on rate schedule 24 with annual usage less than or equal to 300,000 kWh (non-residential facility total) and/or total non-residential facility square footage of 20,000 square feet or less are eligible to participate. Wattsmart Small Business Approved Contractors will verify eligibility upon scheduling free facility lighting assessments.

Details: Lighting Incentives for Named Community small businesses

  1. GET QUALIFIED: Contact a Wattsmart Small Business Approved Contractor to see if you qualify and schedule a free facility assessment. Call us at 1-855-805-7231 or email us at wattsmartbusiness@pacificpower.net.
  2. COMPLETE YOUR APPLICATION: Your Approved Contractor will prepare a project proposal, which will include the incentive and any remaining project costs not covered by the incentive. Once you review it and sign, your contractor will begin. You’ll assign your incentive to the Approved Contractor, who will pass 100% of the incentive on their invoice to you and take care of the paperwork.
  3. GET THE UPGRADE: The Approved Contractor will install your new lighting. We may request to inspect your lighting upgrades to verify energy savings and quality of installation.
  4. SETTLE ANY REMAINING COSTS: You’ll pay the Approved Contractor the balance of any project costs not covered by the incentives. These costs will all be included in the original proposal
  5. Enjoy energy savings and better lighting!

Note: Pacific Power does not warrant the performance of qualifying installed equipment or the quality of the installation provided by the Approved Contractor.

CUSTOMER ELIGIBILITY

 EQUIPMENT ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT CUSTOMER INCENTIVE

Small businesses that meet specific eligibility requirements

 

Named community small business

 

LED Lighting Retrofits

$0.50/kWh
Lighting Controls (interior only)

PIR, Dual Tech, Integral Sensor, Basic or Advanced Networked Lighting Controls

 

$0.32/kWh

Notes for enhanced incentives for very small businesses and named community small businesses – lighting table:

  1. Incentives for equipment listed in this table are only available for select very small business customers and named community small business customers meeting customer eligibility requirements (see Customer Eligibility tab).
  2. To be eligible for the incentives listed, the new lighting system must use less energy than the existing lighting system replaced or the baseline lighting system as determined by Pacific Power.
  3. Incentives are paid per kWh annual energy savings as determined by Pacific Power. Incentives are capped at 100 percent of Energy Efficiency Project Costs. Energy Efficiency Project Costs and energy savings are subject to Pacific Power approval.
  4. To be eligible for program incentives, installed lighting must be listed on one of the following Qualified Product Lists (QPL): DesignLights Consortium or ENERGY STAR®.
  5. Lighting control incentives ($/kWh) are paid per kWh annual energy savings from the installation of lighting controls as determined by Pacific Power. 

LED –Light Emitting Diode
PIR – Passive infrared

Very small businesses on rate schedule 24 with annual usage less than or equal to 30,000 kWh (non-residential facility total) are eligible to participate.

Named Community small businesses on rate schedule 24 with annual usage less than or equal to 300,000 kWh (non-residential facility total) are eligible to participate. Named Community small businesses are located in Highly Impacted Communities defined as census tracts meeting at least one of the following two criteria:

  • The census tract is covered or partially covered by ‘Indian Country’ as defined in and designated by statute.
  • The census tract ranks a 9 or 10 on the Environmental Health Disparities Map, as designated by the Washington Department of Health (DOH).

Wattsmart Small Business Approved Contractors will verify eligibility upon scheduling free facility lighting assessments.

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