Municipal Electrification Retrofits FON-019-2025
Through this Funding Opportunity Notice (FON or “opportunity”) Efficiency Maine is seeking applications for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and water heating projects for municipal buildings in Maine municipalities with less than 10,000 residents. This initiative falls under Efficiency Maine’s Commercial and Industrial Prescriptive Initiatives (CIPI). This FON offers higher incentives than typically provided under the CIPI initiatives, with the intent to accelerate the conversion to high-efficiency electric HVAC systems in municipal buildings across the state. Interested participants can find more information about this program and instructions on how to apply in the FON document posted below under Program Documents.
Schedule:
- Application Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025 (original extension deadline was March 31, 2025)
- Project Completion Deadline: November 30, 2025
Eligible Participants:
Municipalities with less than 10,000 residents, per U.S. Census data.
Eligible Buildings:
Municipal buildings, including:
- Community center
- Fire station
- Police station
- Public safety buildings (combined fire and police services)
- Public works facility (office, garages, bus garages)
- Town hall
- Town libraries
Eligible Equipment:
- Mini-split heat pumps
- Variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems
- Heat pump rooftop units (RTUs)
- Energy recovery ventilator (ERV)
- Heat pump water heaters