The typical grocery store spends up to 60 percent of its energy bill on refrigeration needs. Upgrading to more energy-efficient equipment can lead to cool savings for your store--and Act On Energy can help.

Act On Energy offers financial incentives tailored specifically to grocery and convenience stores to simplify the process of upgrading standard industry equipment to more energy-efficient models. Incentives may be available for the following improvement measures and more:

• LED lighting and controls for refrigerator/freezer cases
• Night curtains for open coolers
• Automatic door closers for walk-in coolers and freezers
• Energy-saving door gaskets
• Tune-ups on refrigerators and freezers

New measures on the Grocery/Convenience Store incentives application include:

• T12 to T5 New florescent fixture
• T8 to T5 re-lamp and re-ballast
• Exterior lighting for canopies and garages

Click here  to download a Grocery/Convenience Store incentive application.  For any new applications submitted, projects cannot be completed before June 1, 2010. 

Projects with incentives less than $5,000 no longer require pre-approval but can still be submitted to verify equipment eligibility and incentive level. Though projects less than $5,000 do not need pre-approval, all equipment must meet program requirements or the project will be denied.  Projects with incentives less than $5,000 have 90 days from the equipment purchase invoice date to be completed and 30 days after completion to submit paperwork in order to be eligible for incentives.  Pre-approval is always required for tune-ups.

Projects requesting incentives greater than $5,000 require pre-approval.  The pre-approved incentive amount is good for 90 days from the date of pre-approval; thereby requiring purchase of the equipment and completion of the project within the 90-day period to receive the reserved incentive funds.