1. Focus on Energy 2017 Program Overview
Sarah Speck, Energy Engineer
Business Incentives Program

2. OVERVIEW
Focus on Energy is Wisconsin utilities’ statewide program for energy efficiency and renewable energy
Since 2001 has worked with eligible residents and businesses to install energy efficiency and renewable energy projects
Provides financial incentives, education, information and other resources in an effort to encourage participation that leads to increased energy savings and reduced utility bills. 2

3. Mission Statement

4. Business Programs Public Service Commission (PSC)
Program Administrator
Design Assistance
Small Business
Business Incentives
Large Energy Users
Ag, Schools, & Government
Multifamily

5. Agriculture, Schools, and Government
Program Definitions
New construction or major renovation over 5,000 ft2
Design Assistance
Businesses with average July/August electric usage under 40,000 kWh
Small Business
Monthly energy bills over $60,000, demand >1 MW, or by affiliation
Large Energy Users
Agricultural Producers, Tribes, Federal, State, County, and Municipal Entities, K-12 Schools, Colleges & Universities (excluding UW system)
Agriculture, Schools, and Government
Businesses that do not fall under any other program, now including Chain Stores and Franchises
Business Incentives
Residential building with four or more dwelling spaces (apartments, condos, mixed-use buildings)
Multifamily

6. Prescriptive Incentives
Found in catalogs
Agribusiness
Commercial Kitchen Equipment
Commercial Refrigeration
HVAC/Plumbing
Lighting
Process Systems
No pre-approval required unless
Reservation code needed or otherwise noted in catalog
Total incentives over $25,000 (recommended at $10,000)
Can be applied for within 60 days of completing the installation
Two page application (pages 5 and 6 of catalogs)
Supplemental data sheet may be required

7. Custom Incentives For measures not found in prescriptive catalogs
Non-standard technologies (e.g. industrial process equipment)
Not a one-for-one replacement
First-year savings must pay back between 1.5 and 10 years (8 years for LEU)
Pre-approval required prior to equipment being purchased or beginning labor
$0.60/therm, $100/peak kW reduced, and $0.03/kWh ($0.02/kWh for LEU lighting)

8. Sample Documentation Custom Application (2 pages)
Proposal or scope of work, including project cost and equipment model numbers where applicable
Utility data may be requested (EA will facilitate)
If unique project or product, vendor provided savings estimates are helpful, but not required
Energy Model Outputs
Not required, can earn additional incentives
Example: energy modeled chiller plant
Prescriptive Incentive = $39,000
Custom Incentive = $48,000, included control strategies and pump motor reduction

9. Pre-approval Process
For any custom measures or prescriptive incentives >$25,000
Customer or Trade Ally notifies EA of project
EA determines project eligibility and incentive
Project is reviewed by Focus on Energy
EA sends customer incentive agreement
Customer may move forward with project/purchase equipment
Project completed before deadline and EA is notified

10. Grocery Store Typical Energy Use
Refrigeration accounts for about ½ of your store’s total energy spend
CBECS, Table 5. Major fuel consumption by end use, 2012 – food sales
Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) 2012: Major fuel consumption by end use, food sales

11. Implementation Trends – Reduce Open Multideck Cases
Replace Open Multideck-Style Cases with Cases With Doors
$80.00 per linear foot
Retrofit Open Multideck- Style Cases With Doors
$60.00 per linear foot
This strategy serves multiple purposes: one to keep customers more comfortable when they’re shopping in these areas so that the cold air isn’t just blasting on them without containment, two: it has been shown to increase shelf life (decreasing shrink and spoilage). From an energy savings standpoint, by encapsulating the cold air into a built up envelope, it not only allows you to possibly downsize your refrigeration system, but also can potentially reduce your natural gas space heating costs because the cold air is restricted in those areas as well.

12. Implementation Trends – ECM Evaporator Fan Motors
Reach-In Case Evaporator Fan Motor
$25 per motor
Walk-in Evaporator Fan Motor
$25-50 per motor, depending on motor size
Electronically Commutated (EC) motors – have been around for quite a while, you’d be hard-pressed to find a new case that is manufactured without EC Motors already installed in the evaporator section. Based on the DOE requirements for refrigeration, ECMs have become a standard practice for almost all of case manufactured for sale in the US market after However, if you do have older cases that have shaded pole motors or permanent split capacitor motors, it is very cost effective to retrofit these motors with EC motors. EC motors are around 75% efficient, while the earlier generation Shaded Pole motors are around 20%-40% efficient. Based on the run hours for an evaporator fan motors, a payback of a year or less is easily achievable when you factor in the reduced heat the motor adds to the refrigerated case.

13. Implementation Trends – LED Case Lights
Vertical LED Case Lights
$20 per door
Horizontal LED Case Lights
$4 per linear foot of lamp
Ex. (1) 8ft case with (2) rows of canopy lighting, (1) row of nose lighting and (3) rows of shelf lighting  48 linear feet of lamps
LED refrigerated case lighting – Energy savings can exceed 50% over the baseline T8 or T12 lamps. Also provides a higher quality light on the product being illuminated, and makes the colors pop. As always, make sure that the products you’re considering are on the Design Lights Consortium qualified products list under the category “Vertical (or Horizontal) Refrigerated Case Luminaires”

14. Contact Information
Call:
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Mail: Focus on Energy 1 South Pinckney, Suite 340
Madison, WI 53703