Customer Services Resource$mart

Energy efficiency help for businesses

Chelan County PUD’s Resource$mart program helps industrial and commercial customers install facility improvements that can provide significant energy and cost savings. Industrial programs include more efficient refrigeration fans for fruit warehouses, energy-efficient CO2 scrubbers for controlled atmosphere storage, heating and cooling system improvements, and better lighting. Commercial customers also benefit from upgraded lighting as well as improvements to heating/cooling and other systems.

In 2010-11, Chelan PUD provided $1.8 million in Resource$mart incentives, saving 2.4 average megawatts of electricity, enough to power 1,000 all-electric homes in Chelan County.

Qualifying industrial customers can receive up to $0.15 per annual kWh saved while commercial projects can receive up to $0.06 per annual kWh of electricity saved, OR 75 percent of the total cost to purchase and install energy efficiency improvements, whichever is less.  The incentive applies to conservation projects that can show documented energy savings through metering verification or benchmarking using monthly billing analysis.

Use the following link to help calculate potential energy savings for lighting projects.
Resource$mart Lighting Calculator (fill out, download and email to the PUD)

For calculations involving Variable Fan Drives (VFDs), CO2 scrubbers and other custom projects, email Senior Energy Conservation Engineer Jim White or call (509) 661-4829.