Business

The Capacity Generator Program provides member community businesses with a cost-effective solution when a backup power source is needed at a facility. The program allows businesses to receive monthly payments for often idle equipment, while still enabling operation during power outages. This partnership also helps to lower energy expenses for the business over the long term. One of the most significant cost drivers in the utility industry is the need to supply reliable power during periods of high demand, constrained power or extreme pricing. The Capacity Generator Program helps keep electricity affordable well into the future.

The WPPI New Load Market Pricing (NLMP) wholesale cost schedule is aimed at helping members stay competitive with similar products offered by other utilities. Interested members now have the option to implement the corresponding market-based retail rate structure for eligible customers.

Sometimes referred to as growth or economic development rates, retail NLMP utility rates have the potential to provide a market-based discount that can encourage existing customers to expand and new customers to locate in the utility’s service area.

The New Construction Program works with prospective building owners and developers, design professionals, and construction contractors to deliver high performance buildings that provide improved energy efficiency, peak load reduction, improved systems performance, and greater comfort. Energy savings are accomplished by stimulating incremental improvements of efficiency in lighting, HVAC and other building systems. The program seeks to capture synergistic energy savings by encouraging the design and construction of buildings as integrated systems.

The Power Quality Program is designed to assist WPPI members in their efforts to resolve customer specific power quality problems. In addition, the program offers power quality information and educational services to customers, as well as electrical contractors. Today’s electrical equipment is far more sensitive than the typical electrical devices of the past. As a result, customers may experience increasing numbers of power-related problems. Although many of these problems are the result of conditions inside the customers’ facilities, customers and contractors continue to view power quality as a utility issue and continue to look to the utility for assistance in solving these problems.

The RFP for Energy Efficiency program is designed to encourage investment by large commercial and industrial utility customers in energy efficient improvements. Up to $200,000 of incentive funding is available for each bid cycle.

Spring 2024 Round
Program Start Date – February 2
Applications Due – March 22
Awards Announcement – April 19

Eligible Proposals

The RFP seeks large efficiency projects that reduce annual total energy consumption by 100,000 kilowatt-hours or more, and/or...

This program allows a utility customer to receive energy savings in advance to undertake an energy efficiency project and then repay the funding in sixty equal installments on their utility bill. In some cases, the payments are less than the energy cost savings, resulting in a positive cash flow for the customer. Many businesses delay the replacement or improvement of inefficient equipment and building components because the initial purchase costs are perceived as too much of an obstacle. In an effort to be responsive to and overcome the initial cost barriers, and to provide the convenience of on-bill financing, WPPI  has created a Shared Savings program that offers capital to the customer with an annual fee to advance energy efficiency projects.

WPPI helps members offer training to utility customers, business owners, facility managers, contractors and other trade allies through the Technical Training & Education Outreach program. Through educational opportunities, participants will learn to identify and implement energy efficiency projects, explore energy related system applications, and expand knowledge of emerging technologies and best practices. The training opportunities strive to help businesses make informed decisions and provide practical guidance for investing in energy-related projects.