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Program changes proposed for Rocky Mountain Power Wattsmart® Business effective July 11. Watch our video or read below for more details.

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Lighting: Plug and Play Controls Ready

Lighting: Retrofits Incentives 

Midstream Incentives

New Construction Major Renovation  

Non-lighting Incentives 

Wattsmart® Business is always looking for ways to improve our program and make it easier for you to serve your customers with the best products and incentives. Our program evolves as technology changes and we gain insights from experience. Rocky Mountain Power is proposing updates to the Wattsmart Business program in Utah that, if approved, will be effective July 11, 2025.  We’ll have new approaches for lighting pathways, new construction/major renovation and non-lighting incentives.  

We developed this category in response to emerging lighting technology, and it applies to all lighting pathways. Plug-and-play controls-ready lighting offers you flexibility with receptacles that allow for a tool-less addition of controls during installation or in the future. If your customer opts for controls in the future, there’s no need to rewire the system, which cuts your labor costs. Several incentives are available in this category: 

• You may submit for the plug-and-play lighting incentive at the time of installation. 

• If the fixtures include a module, plug-and-play controls can be submitted as a Networked Lighting Controls or Advanced Networked Lighting Controls project, and we will honor the highest incentive for your customer. 

• You may submit for a controls-only project incentive in the future. 

Incentive Table

Express Incentives 

We are introducing an Express path to allow you to apply for most lighting projects on a post-purchase application process, which can be quickly submitted through the new online tool. Unlike past prescriptive incentives that calculated the incentive amount per fixture, Express incentives offer an incentive amount per watt installed and are not limited to specific retrofit kit/fixture categories. The Express excludes replacement lamps, controls only, new construction and major renovation, and projects where there is an LED baseline and has different rates for interior and exterior installations. 

• Uses classifications 
• No controls 
• Plug and play controls ready 
• NLCs 
• Luminaire Level Lighting Controls

Small and Medium Business Express (SMBE) Incentives 

We are expanding the previous Small Business Enhanced category to include medium-sized businesses too. This category uses the Express incentive structure described above, so this new category will be referred to as SMBE. 

The original 75% incentive cap still applies, but you have more opportunities to achieve it. Rather than one set incentive of 75%, SMBE offers higher incentive levels.   

The Express category excludes replacement lamps, is phasing out the lighting tool and offers you a new eligibility site.  

Calculated (Non-prescriptive) 

Our non-prescriptive path goes by a few names such as calculated, typical or simply the lighting tool path. We’re making some enhancements to the lighting tool. 

The biggest change is that there is one rate for all customer sizes, eliminating segmentation in the tool. The Basic Controls category is being replaced with Plug and Play Controls Ready. This is the exclusive path for controls-only projects. You can receive lighting incentives for most product types in the tool, with the exception of replacement lamps, which are excluded from this category. 

Incentive Table 

Midstream Incentives 

This is the exclusive path for replacement lamps. As part of our program changes, the LED Instant Incentive and the existing post-purchase application are now replaced with the Express offering. Fixtures, kits, and controls will all be available downstream in the Express application or lighting tool.  

The full stream model of shared incentives is now combined into a midstream exclusive offer. Approved midstream trade allies may submit via single-sale log entries or via bulk uploads. 

Incentive Table

New Construction Major Renovation  

Most projects in this category include more than one system (e.g. lighting, HVAC or building envelope) and qualify for the Whole Building New Construction/Major Renovation offering. If you have Whole Building questions, please contact Jessica Balance at 801-639-5601 jballance@resource-innovations.com. 

If only a single system is changed, the project would fall into the following categories:  

•  New Construction incentives are available for most common building types lighting including Controlled Environmental Agriculture. For Major Renovation, lighting, HVAC, or building envelope is eligible for the incentives linked in the table below. 

Single system new construction/major renovation lighting incentives are changing to a tiered pay-for-savings structure where various incentive amounts per kilowatt hour apply based on the type of controls used: 

• No controls
• Basic or NLC
• ANLC  

Incentive Table

Non-lighting Incentives

 The Green Motor Rewinds incentive is being removed from the program. 

TRANSITION PLAN

For projects requiring pre approval see the table to understand which incentive applies.

For Post Purchase projects, the earlier invoice date for the project is used to determine which tariff applies.

QUESTIONS? Contact us, we are happy to help!