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This site contains information about the CenterPoint Energy 2008 Commercial and Industrial Standard Offer Program.
To register as a 2008 Project Sponsor applicant, go to the 2008 EnerTrek® login page. Additionally, the EnerTrek® logo on the left side of this page links to the 2008 database.
Project Sponsors currently enrolled in the 2007 program should continue using the 2007 EnerTrek® system for their 2007 projects.
The incentive budget for the 2008 program is: $6,100,000.
Announcing the New Prescriptive Motor Program
The new Prescriptive Motor Program is a new incentive pilot program for the installation of premium efficiency motors and is funded within the Commercial & Industrial Standard Offer Program (C&I SOP). Incentives for the installation of premium efficiency motors are available to motor manufacturers, motor distributors, contractors and CenterPoint Energy customers on a “first come, first served” basis.
Please refer to the downloads section of the Website to find out more about the new prescriptive motor program.
Program highlights
General Rules and Eligibility Requirements
- Available to all C&I customers with peak demand of at least 100 kW at a single site or a combined peak demand of at least 250 kW at multiple sites
- Retrofit and new construction projects
- Incentives paid to Project Sponsors for verified demand and energy savings
- Project Sponsors may be any company, contractor, or customer who installs energy efficiency projects
- Project Sponsor may receive no more than 20% of the annual incentive budget
- Minimum summer peak demand reduction of 20 kW
- Similar sites with similar measures can be combined as one project
- Measures must reduce demand and energy usage during peak period, defined as May 1 to September 30 between 1 P.M. and 7 P.M.
- Savings must be achieved through increases in energy efficiency
- Measures must have a useful life of at least 10 years
- Installed measures must exceed minimum equipment efficiency standards
Sponsor Participation Process
- Register to participate as a Project Sponsor using EnerTrek
- Use EnerTrek to develop and submit an Initial Application and reserve funding for your project
- Enter into a Standard Agreement with CenterPoint Energy and submit an application deposit and notarized Letter of Intent
- Use EnerTrek to submit a Final Application
- Install proposed measures
- Use EnerTrek to submit an Installation Report and request an initial payment
- Use EnerTrek to submit a Savings Report and request the final payment
Incentives
- $175 per kW reduction and $0.060 per kWh saved
- Initial payment of 40% will be made after measures have been installed and inspected
- Final payment of up to 60% will be made upon approval of Savings Report
- Projects with 65% or more of their savings achieved through lighting measures will receive a reduced incentive
- Projects with load factors over 100% will receive a reduced incentive
Measurement and Verification (M&V)
- Project Sponsors are responsible for conducting all project M&V
- M&V approaches can be classified according to their relative level of detail and rigor; this program involves three distinct approaches:
- Deemed - predetermined energy savings values for particular applications
- Simple M&V - energy savings are based on typical equipment characteristics and some short-term testing or simple metering
- Full M&V - requires project-specific plan developed in accordance with International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol
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