Cree Lighting Canada’s LED Lighting products offer superior quality, performance and efficiency, generating impressive energy savings over their lifetimes. Cree Lighting’s market-leading products are eligible for retrofit and new construction rebates in many utility territories. Utility rebates are lowering the upfront cost of new energy-efficient lighting. It’s a great time for changes in lighting!
LED Lighting Incentives
Utility Incentives
What are Utility Incentives?
In order to meet energy savings goals, utilities offer their commercial customers a financial incentive to upgrade their facility with energy-efficient products. Utility LED lighting incentives offset the upfront costs associated with installing new energy-efficient lighting.
Interior and Exterior luminaires by Cree Lighting are eligible for retrofit and new construction incentives under utility programs throughout Canada.
How to Capture Incentives
While each utility program is unique, the majority adhere to a similar set of steps:
- Check with your electric utility provider to determine if there are LED lighting programs available.
- After determining your projects eligibility, submit the program’s lighting application.
- The utility program will review your project scope and in most cases provide you with a pre-approval noting your potential incentive.
- Complete your project installation according to your pre-approved products.
- The utility will verify the installation and finalize the pre-approved amount by processing the incentive check.
Utility Programs are governed fully by the utilities and are subject to change without notice. Contact individual utilities for updates and or changes to their programs.
Helpful Incentive Information
What is a prescriptive omcemtove versis a custom incentive?
A prescriptive incentive is a predetermined dollar amount per luminaire (i.e. $10/LED A Lamp). A custom incentive is determined based on the demand and/or energy saved by installing the new LED luminaire in terms of kW or kWh.
Example of an actual incentive an automotive dealership customer received through their local utility by switching to Cree Edge™ High Output luminaires:
Utility LED Program Incentive Offering: $0.08/kWh Saved
Annual Luminaire Operating Hours: 4,368
Interior and Exterior luminaires by Cree Lighting are eligible for retrofit and new construction incentives under utility programs throughout Canada.
Qty | Watts | Total Watts | Incumbent Lighting | Qty | Watts | Total Watts | Incentive |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
70 | 557 | 38,990 | 1000W Metal Halide | 126 | 1080 | 136,090 | $33,927 |
What products qualify?
Every utility program provides their own set of requirements and product criteria. In general, utilities usually require LED products to be listed under the qualification bodies of either Energy Star or DesignLights Consortium (DLC). In order to qualify under one of these organizations, the product must meet high efficiency, quality and lifetime criteria standards.
Potential product disqualifications.
The customer generally needs to be granted pre-approval for an incentive amount before starting a project. The project may become ineligible if products are installed before receiving a pre-approval from the utility program.
Qualified Products & Resources
List of Qualified Products
- ENERGY STAR® Qualified Light Bulbs Finder
- ENERGY STAR® LED Lighting Qualified Fixture Finder
- Design Lights Consortium Products
Additional Resources
- ASHRAE
Building Code Information