Grocery stores often rely on energy–intensive equipment, which can lead to high energy costs. With help from Energy Trust, you can install energy-efficient lighting, refrigeration, and more to improve your customers’ shopping experience and stock your store with savings.
Energy Trust offers cash incentives for investing in energy-efficient grocery equipment to help reduce energy consumption so you will spend less on monthly utility bills. Explore available cash incentives and start saving more today.
See available incentives for grocery refrigeration and HVAC equipment in the following table. Download the Oregon Existing Buildings Incentive Application to review equipment specifications and requirements before purchasing equipment.
| Equipment | Incentive |
|---|---|
| Anti-Sweat Heater Controls | $60-$80 per linear ft of door |
| Evaporator Fan Motors | $150–$180 per motor replaced |
| Retrofit Doors on Open Freezers or Open Refrigerated Cases | $160-$400 per linear ft of door |
| ENERGY STAR Vertical Reach-in Refrigerator | $20 each |
| ENERGY STAR Vertical Reach-in Freezer | $40-$325 each |
| New Cooler Cases with Doors | $150 per linear ft of door |
| Strip Curtains | $12 per sq ft |
| Condenser Fan Variable Frequency Drive (VFD), Compressor Rack | $850 per fan motor hp |
| Floating Head Pressure Controls (FHPC), Retrofit Compressor Rack | $60 per compressor hp |
| Floating Suction Pressure Controls (FSPC), Retrofit, Compressor Rack | $60 per compressor hp |
| FHPC and FSPC Concurrently, Compressor Rack, Air or Evaporatively Cooled Condenser | $130 per compressor hp |
| On-Demand Overwrapper | $350 each |
| High-Speed Doors on Walk-in Coolers or Freezers | $11,000-$17,000 each |
| Advanced Controls on Walk-in Coolers or Freezers | $500-$1,200 each |
Incentives are subject to funding availability and may change.
| Equipment | Requirements |
|---|---|
| Anti-sweat Heater Controls (ASH) | • Eligible heater controls must reduce sweat by sensing humidity, dew point, or condensation • Site must not have an existing refrigeration energy management system, including ASH controls • Site must receive electricity from a participating utility |
| Evaporator Fan Motors | • Must be installed in an existing, functional walk-in or reach-in refrigeration case with electronically commutated motor (ECM) or permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) • Existing case motor must be either shaded pole (SP) or permanent split capacitator (PSC) motor • Site must receive electricity from a participating utility • New walk-in or reach-ins do not qualify |
| Retrofit Doors on Open Freezers or Open Refrigerated Cases | • Must add doors to existing functional open freezers or refrigerated cases • Self-contained refrigeration cases (integrated condensing units) are do not qualify • Low temperature is at or below 0°F. Medium temperature is between 1°F and 35°F |
| ENERGY STAR® Vertical Reach-in Refrigerator | • Must be active on ENERGY STAR certified product list (version 5.0) • Case must be packaged and self-contained with a built-in cooling compressor • Case must have glass doors. Used or rebuilt cases do not qualify • Cases with remote refrigeration systems do not qualify • Refrigeration volume must be less than 15 cubic feet • Site must receive electric service from a participating utility |
| ENERGY STAR Vertical Reach-in Freezer | • Must be active on ENERGY STAR certified product list (version 5.0) • Case must be packaged and self-contained with a built-in cooling compressor • Case must have glass doors. Used or rebuilt cases do not qualify. • Cases with remote refrigeration systems do not qualify. • Horizontal or chest-style freezers do not qualify • Site must receive electric service from a participating utility |
| New Cooler Cases with Doors | • Must be a new refrigerated display case with doors, additional cases are added, or existing cases are replaced • Doors must be transparent. Cases with solid doors do not qualify • Refurbished cases do not qualify • Can be installed at sites with electric or gas heat, or at sites with gas or other heat, with no participating gas provider |
| Strip Curtains | • Must be installed where no infiltration barriers exist in walk-in coolers or freezers. Display cases do not qualify • Must be contractor-installed • Eligible only for grocery stores and supermarkets, restaurants and warehouses • To qualify for a walk-in cooler, project site must be a grocery store or a warehouse • To qualify for a walk-in freezer, project site must be a grocery store or a restaurant • Low temperature is at or below 0°F. Medium temperature is between 1°F and 35°F |
| Condenser Fan Variable Frequency Drive (VFD), Compressor Rack | • Adding a single VFD to control an existing multi-fan condensing unit. Existing condenser multi-fan systems must not have VFD |
| Floating Head Pressure Control (FHPC), Compressor Rack | • Adding a FHPC to a compressor rack control system • Existing rack system must not have FHPC or FSPC |
| Floating Suction Pressure Controls (FSPC), Compressor Rack | • Adding a FSPC to a compressor rack control system • Existing rack system must not have FHPC or FSPC |
| FHPC and FSPC, Compressor Rack | • Adding a FHPC and FSPC, concurrently, to a compressor rack control system • Existing rack system must not have FHPC or FSPC • Cannot be combined with FSPC or FHPC Compressor Rack measures |
| On-Demand Overwrapper | • Use either a mechanical or optical control system to detect product |
| High-Speed Doors on Walk-in Coolers or Freezers | • Walk-in doorway must be at least 5 ft wide • Walk-In coolers or freezers must be less than 3,000 sq ft • High-speed doors can be equipped with or without air curtains and/or door heaters • Existing non-high speed infiltration barriers may include strip curtains, spring-hinged doors, impact doors and other barriers • Refrigerated warehouses and distribution centers do not qualify • High temperature refrigerated spaces set above 50°F do not qualify • To qualify as a retrofit project (upgrade): Must upgrade existing functional non-high speed door infiltration barriers or walk-ins without any existing infiltration barriers. Walk-ins with existing strip curtains must have at least 50% strip coverage remaining • To qualify as a new install or replacement project: Must replace failed non-high speed door infiltration barriers or failed high-speed doors. Walk-ins with existing strip curtains must less than 50% strip coverage remaining. New walk-in with high-speed doors can replace an old walk-in that is at or near the end of its useful life |
| Advanced Controls for Walk-in Coolers and Freezers | • Must install a device capable of evaporator fan control, compressor run time control and defrost control • Controller must be on Qualified Product List • A qualifying controller includes a single control device installed either on a single walk-in cooler/freezer or on a single condensing unit connected to daisy-chained evaporator units of the same walk-in type. All daisy-chained evaporators must be used either for coolers or for freezers • Controls may be installed on either box type or display walk-in coolers or freezers, and walk-in units must be less than 3,000 square feet (in total) • Walk-in units can be customer-owned or leased, can be self-contained or remote-condensing and can be located indoors or outdoors • Controls installed on reach-in refrigerated cases, multiplex or rack refrigeration systems, do not qualify • Walk-in units in industrial warehouse applications or walk-in units with VFD evaporator fan motors, VFD compressors or X-line condensing units do not qualify |
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Download the Oregon Existing Buildings Incentive Application
Download Request for Taxpayer Identification Number & Certification Form (Form W9)
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