Proposed Energy Efficiency Programs: Commercial and Industrial Electric Customers
Commercial and Industrial Incentives
	Rebates for energy efficient electric products that are readily available in the marketplace.
	Financial assistance to customers to support implementation of high-efficiency opportunities—ones that would involve modernizing facilities or improving industrial processes. Examples would be premium efficiency motors, vending machine sensors, lighting measures, variable frequency drives, and upgraded compressed air and refrigeration systems.
Commercial and Industrial Customized Incentives
	The goal of this program is to customize commercial and industrial customer incentives based on calculated savings for specific customer projects.
	This program would operate in close coordination with the Commercial and Industrial Prescriptive Incentive program. However, the customized program is designed to capitalize on cost-effective energy efficiency opportunities that can be realized by existing commercial, government, institutional and industrial customers of all sizes―opportunities for which prescriptive incentives are not available.
	The program would provide financial assistance to customers to support implementation of high-efficiency opportunities available at the time of new equipment purchases, facility modernization, and industrial process upgrades. The incentives would be customized based on estimated electrical energy savings and would be subject to a cap.
Commercial New Construction
	The goal of this program is to capture energy efficiency opportunities that are available during the design and construction of new buildings. Also included would be major renovations and tenant build-outs in the non-residential market―construction projects that are being built to meet LEED―Leadership in Energy Efficient Design-certified (“green building”) requirements.
	LEED is a voluntary, consensus-based rating system that is a national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. LEED’s coveted certification recognizes buildings that follow the exacting standards of LEED’s Green Building Green Building Rating Systems© requirements for energy efficiency, wise resource use and other good green building practices.
Commercial and Industrial Prescriptive Incentives
	This program would provide opportunities to smaller commercial, government, institutional, and industrial customers of all sizes. The program would provide rebates for energy-efficient electrical products that are readily available in the marketplace.
Commercial and Industrial Retro-Commissioning
	The goal of this program’s goal is to improve the performance of energy-using electrical equipment in existing buildings by focusing on optimizing mechanical equipment and related controls.
	This program would encourage large commercial building owners and managers to analyze the energy performance of their buildings.
	The program would assist in identifying major opportunities for improving performance through existing system improvements and replacement of under-performing equipment.
	In certain cases, the program would provide financial support for taking recommended actions.
Commercial Retrofit Commissioning
	A program aimed at improving the performance of energy-using electrical equipment in existing buildings by focusing on optimizing mechanical equipment and related controls.
Voluntary Curtailment
	A voluntary customer curtailment tariff would allow business customers to reduce electrical usage in exchange for compensation based on market prices. This helps reduce demand on the system at critical times.
	The goal of this program is to involve large commercial facilities with peak demand reduction capabilities of 500-kilowatts or greater at a single premise.
	Commercial customers willing to curtail their service at times of peak demand would enroll in the program by signing a curtailment service contract and provide an action plan for complying.
	The contract would specify that during curtailment events when the customer participates, the customer must reduce demand to the level specified by the customer or incur a penalty.
	The company would send participating customers a fax and email on the day prior to or the day of a curtailment event.
	Customers would receive a per-event incentive payment in the form of a bill credit for reducing demand to the contractually-specified level during a curtailment event.
	The program would be open to customers on the Large General, Small Primary, Large Primary, and the Large Transmission Service Rates.