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Program ProfilesXCEL ENERGY
Xcel Energy is the largest utility in the state of Colorado, providing electricity and gas to 1.6 million residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers. Xcel offers a number of energy efficiency and demand-side management programs to its commercial and industrial customers. Xcel offers central air conditioner rebates to small businesses that install an energy-efficient air conditioner, as well as a monetary discount to commercial customers that participate in its Saver’s Switch program aimed at reducing the summer peak electricity demand caused by high air conditioner use. Through its Custom Efficiency program, Xcel provides incentives to its commercial and industrial customers for projects that reduce peak electricity demand through improved energy efficiency, fuel shifting, or load shifting. Projects are selected through a bidding process. Commercial, industrial, and small business customers can finance the purchase of energy-efficient products and services from Xcel through its FinancingPLUS program. Xcel provides low-interest loans of up to $500,000 for the purchase and installation of energy-efficient equipment. Xcel also sponsors a Commercial Building Recommissioning Program, designed to identify and implement low-cost measures for improving the energy performance and operation of existing commercial buildings. Often this involves “recommissioning” of energy management systems that no longer function properly. Xcel will pay for a diagnosis and provide incentive payments to cover a portion of the recommissioning costs. And companies constructing new commercial buildings can get free design assistance and incentives for installation of efficiency measures through Xcel’s Energy Design Assistance Program. The program assists architects and building designers in evaluating potential energy efficiency improvements, and provides incentives for the implementation of these measures based on a sliding scale, with higher incentives for higher levels of energy savings. The program also provides performance monitoring and verification assistance. |
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