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Lighting Incentives

Lighting can be a significant operating expense in existing buildings. Maine businesses can reduce lighting expenses by upgrading to high-efficiency fixtures and installing lighting controls. These upgrades can also enhance productivity and improve aesthetics.

Efficiency Maine incentivizes high-efficiency screw-in LEDs at participating distributors across Maine. Click here to learn more about the Discounted Screw-in LED Program.

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Opportunities

Funding Opportunity Notice (FON) for School Lighting Retrofits

Efficiency Maine is seeking applications for school lighting retrofits projects. This initiative offers higher incentives than typically provided under the Commercial and Industrial Prescriptive Initiatives (CIPI), with the intent of accelerating the conversion to efficient LED lighting in Maine’s public PreK-12 schools. Click here for more information.

Incentives

Interior and Exterior LED Lighting

  • Efficiency Maine and your Qualified Partner will calculate how much your project could save in one year. The project’s incentive will be $0.26 per kWh of first year savings up to 50% of measure cost.
    • For a project that’s estimated to save 10,000 kWh in the first year, the incentive could be $2,600.
  • Click here for information on horticultural lighting.

      Small Business LED Lighting

      • 65% of total measure cost for qualifying interior and exterior lighting
      • Small business customers must have an electric account labeled “Small General Service” (SGS), “General Service” (GS), or “Medium General Service” (MGS) with an average monthly peak electrical demand under 100kW.
      • Click here for more information on small businesses.

      Distributor Pathway Interior and Exterior Lighting

        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.

        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.