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Progress Energy 

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We handle all of the paperwork for your incentives on items purchased through us when you are a customer of Duke or Progress Energy. Contact us to find out how we can help you save money by reducing your energy use and how to get money back from the utility company!

With many T12 lamps being discontinued in July 2012, updates to the current programs have already started to take effect. 

Duke:

• LED Fixtures – Indoor, Garage & Outdoor
  Energy Star or DLC qualified LED fixtures replacing any fixture may be eligible for a Custom Incentive. This is a change from our previous requirement that the applicant submit an LM-79 test document for their proposed fixture. The ability (or need) to apply for custom incentives using LM-79 test documentation will expire January 31, 2012.
• HP ballasts and reduced wattage bulbs
  High-performance or reduced-wattage fluorescent lighting installations qualify for Smart $aver® Prescriptive Incentives if both the ballast and the bulb are on the same CEE list. Until industry listings are updated, lighting projects that don’t meet this Prescriptive requirement can be submitted for a Custom Incentive. This is a program expansion to include very specific fixtures that are excluded from the current Prescriptive Incentives portfolio.

• Manufacturing of T-12 Fluorescent Lighting Being Phased Out by Federal Mandates

  2010-2012 – Over the course of this year and next, federal mandates on commercial-lighting efficiency will eventually make most T-12 luminaires obsolete. Less »

  • March 31, 2006, was the last day that lighting-fixture manufacturers could incorporate T-12 ballasts in new fixtures with full-wattage T-12 lamps. The ballasts continued to be manufactured for replacement purposes only for existing fixtures.
  • On July 1, 2010, the manufacturing of T-12 magnetic ballasts ceased. T-12 replacement bulbs continued to be manufactured for replacement purposes.
  • As of July 14, 2012, T-12 bulbs may no longer be manufactured or imported for replacement purposes.

  Specifically, these lamp types will no longer be manufactured:

  • Most 4-ft. linear full-wattage and energy-saving T-12 lamps
  • All 2-ft. full-wattage and energy-saving U-shaped T-12 lamps
  • All 75W F96T12 and 110W F96T12HO lamps
  • Most 60W F96T12/ES and 95W F96T12/ES/HO lamps
  • All 4-ft. T-8 basic-grade 700/SP-series lamps rated at 2,800 lumens
  • Some 8-ft. T-8 Slimline single-pin 700/SP series and 8-ft. T-8 HO RDC-base lamps

  What This Means

  • As the "standard" moves from T-12 ballasts/bulbs, incentives currently appropriated for the next step up the efficiency ladder (i.e., various T-8 retrofits) will likely end.
  • For any facility/structure still equipped with T-12 fixtures, replacement is eventually necessary, as replacement bulbs will cease to be available. Customers should consider replacing now while incentives are still offered to lessen their capital outlay.

  In addition to the reduced capital investment, customers will experience an immediate reduction in energy costs. For more details, visit the Department of Energy website.

Progress:

Beginning January 1, 2012, Progress Energy will be revising the lighting prescriptive measures and the rebates.  It will now be a standard $0.35 per watt saved.  All incentives must be pre-approved but not all will require a site inspection prior to approval.  Please contact us for details and information on applying for these incentives.   

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