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Last Updated: 1/27/2017 Non-Residential Energy Efficiency Programs The following programs are designed to benefit businesses, non-profits, schools, and other non-residential entities in your community. This page includes Liberty Utilities and Pacific Gas and Electric programs. Click on the hyperlinked titles below to find out more about the programs and see if you qualify. Sierra Nevada Energy Watch (SNEW) SNEW, administered by Sierra Business Council, delivers cost effective energy efficiency projects to businesses, non-profits, and governments in Sierra Nevada counties. The SNEW team provides free audits, facilitates the rebate and incentive process with PG&E and provides guidance in selecting contractors at no charge. Additionally, the SNEW team can facilitate PG&E’s 0% on-bill financing program for qualifying energy-efficiency projects. To schedule an audit or discuss your options, call Sierra Business Council at [PHONE REDACTED] and ask to speak to a SNEW representative. Energy Partnership Program The California Energy Commission (CEC) Provides up to $20,000 in no cost technical assistance to public agencies in identifying the most cost-effective, energy-efficient upgrades. Liberty Utilities Customer Incentives Liberty Utilities offers Incentives to commercial customers who wish to retrofit with energy-efficient lighting or other energy-efficiency upgrades. Call [PHONE REDACTED] ext. 107 or email [EMAIL REDACTED]. Liberty Utilities Energy Audits Liberty Utilities offers free business energy audits. A Liberty Utilities auditor will visit your business and will identify ways you can save energy and money. You will receive free energy efficient light bulbs & tips on other conservation measures to help you save. California Advanced HomesTM The California Advanced HomesTM Program, administered by PG&E and TRC Energy Services, highlights best practices in energy efficiency, green building and sustainability, and offers generous financial incentives to help builders and architects create environmentally friendly, energy-efficient communities for potential home buyers. PG&E Multi-Family PG&E's Multi-Family Program is for property owners and managers of existing residential dwellings or mobile home parks with five or more units. The program encourages owners to install qualifying energy- efficient products in individual tenant units and common areas of residential apartments, mobile home parks and condominium complexes. A full list of available rebates and incentives is available online. PG&E Retrocommissioning (RCx) Program Retrocommissioning (RCx) is a systematic process for identifying less-than-optimal performance in your facility’s equipment, lighting and control systems and making the necessary adjustments. While retrofitting involves replacing outdated equipment, RCx focuses on improving the efficiency of what’s already in place. PG&E’s RCx Program provides incentives and connects businesses with experts to make sure their facilities are running in peak condition. RCx projects can improve a facility’s work environment, extend the service life of equipment, and even lead to financial savings. ---PAGE BREAK--- Last Updated: 1/27/2017 PG&E Savings By Design (SBD) SBD is a statewide program offered by PG&E to encourage high-performance new building design and construction for commercial buildings. The program offers building owners and their design teams a wide range of services, such as design assistance, design team incentives, owner incentives, and educational resources. PG&E Streetlight Upgrade Program PG&E will be replacing its non-decorative streetlights. In collaboration with the cities and counties across its service territory, PG&E will replace 160,000 existing high pressure sodium vapor (HPSV) bulbs with longer-lasting and more efficient light-emitting diode (LED) fixtures over the next three years. Cities and Counties can opt in for early upgrade. PG&E Hospitality Program The Hospitality Program provides energy-efficiency recommendations, project oversight and rebates at no cost to customers in PG&E territory including hotels and motels, dining and restaurants, casinos, health clubs and more. Energy specialists will conduct a free assessment of your facility and identify site specific opportunities that will save you energy and money. Projects include upgrading old inefficient lighting to LEDs and replacing old refrigeration motors. PG&E LED Accelerator Program (LEDA) The LEDA program incentivizes high performance LED retrofits and new installations in conjunction with networked controls or a new lighting design layout for multi-site commercial businesses. PG&E HVAC Quality Maintenance Program PG&E’s Commercial HVAC Quality Maintenance Program offers generous incentives for enrolling in a three-year air conditioning quality maintenance service agreement and installing optional unit retrofits. Business owners can lower their operating, repair and replacement costs; optimize unit performance and efficiency; improve the indoor air quality and thermal comfort for employees and customers; help prevent HVAC unit failures that can threaten business operations; and reduce their carbon footprint. PG&E Rebates and Incentives PG&E offers non-residential customers rebates and incentives for a variety of energy efficient products for companies such as lighting, HVAC, boilers and water heating, refrigeration, business computing, power management software, occupancy sensors on lights, steam traps, HVAC motors and pumps, electric water heaters, process cooling, data center airflow management, boiler economizers, refrigeration, boiler heat recovery, refrigeration control, VSD pumps, boilers and fans. A full list of current rebates can be found using the PG&E money back tool. PG&E Lighting Rebates PG&E offers rebates for high-efficient replacement lights as well as rebates to help cover the costs of qualifying fixtures and retrofit kits. Prepared by: