Incentive Program Profiles
GRE administers a $9.5 million dollar energy rebate incentive budget in 2010 for our 28 co-ops. Fifty percent of the budget is designated for Residential and fifty percent targets Commercial, Industrial, Agricultural. This is the same budget we had in 2009 and in 2008, our budget was $6.5 million.
The program promotes energy efficiency through the optimization of three phase electrical power end-use systems including compressed air, pumps and fans, industrial refrigeration, process heating, electro-chemical processes and plant-wide energy management systems. The result is lower operating costs and improved system performance.
Project incentives are paid at 10 cents/kWh for first-year savings - plus $200 per kW on winter-demand and $200 per kW on summer-demand.
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Compressed Air Best Practices® Magazine interviewed Mr. Marcus Wilcox, President, Cascade Energy Engineering.
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This paper presents a discussion on the topic of Electric Demand Management as it relates to electric tariff rates, new power generation, and incentives to curtail peak usage.
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Compressed Air Best Practices interviewed Mr. Rod Vickers, Account Manager, Business Customer Division, Southern California Edison (SCE).
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This article presents a case study of Grimmway Farms; a carrot growing and packing firm located in California’s Central Valley that was able to improve its compressed air system efficiency after implementing system automation and making relatively small equipment and piping changes.
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The snack food facility is running with two normally separated compressed air production systems: the main plant system and the nitrogen system.
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The primary objective of this case study is to illustrate the process in which industrial facilities can qualify for energy incentives on projects that reduce the energy usage of their compressed air system.
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This article will focus on a compressed air system assessment done at a printing facility in Canada. The energy costs at the time, in Manitoba, were $0.025 per kWh and the installation was of just 65 horsepower of air compressors.
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The 2007 illinois Power Agency Act established energy efficiency and demand response goals to be met by Comed and other electric utilities in the state. To meet these goals, ComEd developed and launched a suite of energy efficiency incentives called Smart Ideas in 2008 that are expected to yield more that $155 million in savings during the programs’ lifetime.
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Let’s say someone were to tape some one-hundred dollar bills together to make a string. The string of one-hundred dollar bills allocated to energy funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 would go from New York to Hawaii ten times. . . and then some.
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