lighting incentive program

The Lighting Incentive Program

If you are interested in signing up for this program please call 573-874-7325 or e-mail Columbia Water and Light - wlmail@GoColumbiaMo.com.

Join Columbia Water and Light’s efforts to reduce our electric costs by being paid to increase your lighting efficiency! By taking advantage of our Lighting Incentive program you can achieve significant reductions to your energy usage and receive a rebate to help cover lighting upgrades.

Parameters

The Lighting Incentive Program provides an alternative to the purchase of high-cost wholesale electric power by purchasing conservation from our customers. Columbia Water and Light is willing to ‘buy’ lighting efficiency from our customers in the following manner:

Columbia Water and Light staff will visit your business and make recommendations on how to increase your lighting efficiency. In order to be eligible to receive a rebate, evaluations from another contractor must be approved by Columbia Water and Light before the lighting upgrade project is started.
The Lighting Incentive program is offered to customers who pay an electric demand charge: Large General Service (rate “D”) customers and Industrial Service (rate “I”) customers.
To be an eligible lighting retrofit project, the business’s new lighting system must be at least a 10 kilowatt reduction from the old lighting system.
The program will provide an incentive rebate payment of one half the cost of the lighting retrofit, or $100 per kilowatt (KW) of reduction, whichever is less.
A maximum amount of $5,000 will be paid for a project at any one location.
Only payments made to outside vendors for equipment, supplies and labor will be counted as eligible costs.
Copies of paid invoices for lighting upgrade expenses need to be submitted to Columbia Water and Light along with a completed project application form.
The rebate check will be mailed to the name and address as filled out in the application.
Funds for the Lighting Incentive program are limited and available on a first come - first serve basis.

Other Benefits

Lighting upgrades will save your company money through reduced energy use but they will also improve the quality of your lighting. This makes your product look more appealing and improves the working environment for your employees.

Columbia Water and Light is a municipally owned utility that strives to be your trusted source of affordable electricity and pure water. The goal of the Lighting Incentive program is to lower Columbia’s annual electric demand which reduces the system’s peak demand. This lessens the need to purchase higher priced peaking power on the open market. By reducing wasteful consumption, conservation programs help our customers and the utility save money and resources.

Examples Of Program Savings

If a customer upgrades their lighting system at a cost of $6,000 and reduces electric consumption by 20 kilowatts, then they will be reimbursed $2,000 by Columbia Water and Light.

The Lighting Incentive Program has been approved by the Columbia City Council as a pilot program and is subject to limitations in funding and changes in operations depending on staff evaluations.