Hospitality & Lodging

Upgrading your facility with high-efficiency products and systems can lower operating costs, make lodging more comfortable for guests and employees, and demonstrate a commitment to sound environmental practices. Efficiency Maine offers a variety of incentives to help inns, motels, and other year-round hospitality businesses update their facilities and increase energy efficiency.

Click here for our hospitality solutions brochure. 

Opportunities

Funding Opportunity Notice (FON) for Hospitality Businesses 

Efficiency Maine is seeking applications for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC)  projects in qualifying motels, inns, bed and breakfasts, and restaurants. This opportunity offers limited-time enhanced incentives for eligible businesses. Click here for more information. 

Solutions

Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC)

• Hotels and lodging businesses can save money and increase equipment reliability by making energy-efficient choices when installing or replacing heating, cooling or ventilation (HVAC) equipment. Efficiency Maine offers incentives for:

  HVAC Solutions

  • Ductless Heat Pumps
  • Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Systems
  • Heat Pump Rooftop Units (RTUs)
  • Energy Recovery Ventilators (ERVs)
  • And more

  Click here to learn more. 

Lighting 

• Hotels and lodging businesses can save by upgrading exterior lights (including parking lot and wall-mounted flood lights) and interior lighting (including overhead fixtures and screw-in LEDs). High-efficiency fixtures and lighting controls can enhance aesthetics while decreasing cost. Efficiency Maine offers incentives for interior and exterior high-efficiency lighting solutions including:

  Lighting Solutions

  • LED Retrofit Kits
  • New LED Fixtures
  • Exterior Lighting
  • And more

  Click here to learn more.

Refrigeration

• Hotels and lodging businesses can save energy and money with incentives provided for refrigeration controls and the purchase of new energy-efficient equipment and retrofits for existing equipment.
  

  Refrigeration Solutions

  • Scroll Compressors
  • High-Efficiency Evaporator Fan Motors
  • Strip Curtain for Cooler or Freezer
  • Door Heater Controls for Cooler or Freezer
  • Evaporator Fan Motor Controls
  • Floating Head Pressure Controls
  • And more

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Commercial Kitchen Ventilation

• Demand Control Kitchen Ventilation systems regulate fan speed depending on real-time demand rather than functioning at full capacity all day. Demand control ventilation systems can reduce energy required by ventilation as much as 65%.
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Get Started

Ready to upgrade your facility with high-efficiency equipment and appliances? Work with an Efficiency Maine Qualified Partner in order to be eligible for these incentives. See our Qualified Partner video for more information on this process.

Click here to find a Qualified Partner working near you. If you work with a contractor that is not yet a Qualified Partner, urge your contractor to find out more information here. As part of the project approval process, you will accept the C&I Prescriptive Program’s Terms and Conditions. If you’re interested in becoming a Qualified Partner, click here to see our Become A Qualified Partner page.

If you’re interested in getting started with an energy efficiency project in your business but don’t know where to start, you can sign-up for a virtual customer consultation here.

Additional Information

• Find energy-saving tips for hotels and hospitality businesses on the Energy Star website.
• Don’t see your energy solution listed above? Efficiency Maine offers incentives for custom energy solutions. Find out more here.