Commercial Program

How it Works

Oncor provides incentives to Service Providers who install approved energy-efficiency measures in commercial and governmental sites in Oncor's service area.

These energy-saving projects must be approved by Oncor prior to starting. Once completed, Oncor verifies the savings and the Service Providers receive incentive payments based on the project's actual savings.

Requirements

  • Commercial and governmental facilities must be located in Oncor’s service area
  • Facilities must have an electric demand of 100 kW or more
  • Facilities must achieve at least 20 kW of demand reduction during the summer on-peak period.

The summer on-peak period is defined as the hours from 1 to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, June through September, excluding weekends and federal holidays.

Facility Examples

  • School districts
  • Municipal and office buildings
  • Retail establishments
  • Manufacturing sites

What is Eligible?

Incentives are available for both new construction and retrofit projects.

The selection of the energy-efficiency measures and projects is at the discretion of the individual and their Service Provider — with final approval required by Oncor before the project begins.




Project examples include:

  • 1,200 ton chiller retrofit — $45,000 incentive
  • A new 700,000 sq. ft. school — $17,000 incentive for installing efficient lighting and cooling equipment
  • A large office building — $74,000 incentive for qualifying lighting upgrades
  • A new 125,000 sq. ft. retail store — $50,000 incentive for efficient lighting and cooling equipment
  • Traffic signal upgrade — $83,000 incentive for installing LED lights at 180 intersections

Incentives & Deemed Savings

All incentives are paid on the kW and kWh saved and are verified through a measurement and verification (M&V) process.

There are a number of projects, however, that have assigned "deemed savings" and therefore don't require measurement. These deemed savings are a predetermined estimate of demand and energy savings that has been approved by the Public Utility Commission of Texas. Currently 17 types of cooling projects and nine types of lighting projects have deemed savings assigned and do not require M&V.

The Service Provider has the option to perform a complete M&V study OR use deemed savings with these projects. Oncor must approve the applicability of deemed savings before the project begins.

Service Providers

Service Providers, also called "Project Sponsors," can include:

  • National or local energy service companies (ESCO’s)
  • National or local companies that provide energy-related services and products (consultants, contractors and equipment providers)
  • Individual customers that implement energy efficiency measures in their own facilities
  • Retail electric providers

Next Step

For more on this program and the Service Providers available in your area, please call 1.866.728.3674 or email eecustinfo@oncor.com.