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Reap rewards for your work with new 2026 trade ally promotions!
To increase participation in 2026, we’ve put together great promotions for both new and existing trade allies that include cash rewards, fun activities and recognition for your company.
Join the Wattsmart® Business Trade Ally Network and get rewarded for helping your customers save energy and money!
2026 New Trade Ally* Reward: $100 gift card
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How to qualify: Submit your application to join the Wattsmart® Business Trade Ally Network in 2026, be approved and submit your first project in 2026. This promotion excludes midstream offerings.
Timeline: Projects submitted by deadline of 11/30/2026 will qualify for this promotion (or until allocated funds are exhausted).
Claim your reward: Receive a one-time $100 gift card for your company after your first project submittal is confirmed.
*Midstream trade allies are not eligible to participate in this promotion.
First Five Lighting Projects Reward: $500 gift card
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How to qualify: Submit your application to join the network in 2026, be approved and submit your first five lighting projects in 2026. This promotion excludes midstream lighting offerings.
Timeline: Projects submitted by deadline of 11/30/2026 will qualify for this promotion (or until allocated funds are exhausted).
Claim your reward: Score a one-time $500 gift card for your company after your five lighting project submittals are confirmed.
Questions? Call your outreach specialist or contact us at 1-866-870-3419 or wattsmart@evergreen.energy.
Make 2026 your year to promote Wattsmart®’s energy-efficient solutions and incentives in all your projects. You’ll increase customer satisfaction, boost revenue and earn rewards.
**Trade allies must be in good standing to participate in the promotions. Midstream trade allies are not eligible for these promotions.
Half-a-Mill kWh Submitted Reward: Lunch for up to eight team members
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How to qualify: Submit your projects that result in a total of 500,000 kWh savings closed in 2026. This promotion excludes midstream distributors.
Timeline: Projects submitted by deadline of 11/30/2026 will qualify for this promotion (or until allocated funds are exhausted).
Claim your reward: Enjoy a one-time lunch (maximum of $500) with your outreach specialist and up to eight team members in your organization. Once the 500,000 kWh achievement is confirmed, your outreach specialist will contact you to set a mutually agreeable time and place.
Million kWh Club Reward: Golf outing or similar activity for your team
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How to qualify: Submit projects that result in a total of 1 million kWh in savings closed in 2026. This promotion excludes midstream offerings.
Timeline: Projects submitted by deadline of 11/30/2026 will qualify for this promotion (or until allocated funds are exhausted).
Claim your reward: Get your team ready to play at a one-time golf outing or similar activity (approximately $500/event) with your outreach specialist. Once the 1 million kWh achievement is confirmed, your outreach specialist will contact you to set a mutually agreeable time and place.
2026 Leading With Controls Reward: Personalized case study and award
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How to qualify: Submit a minimum of five (5) projects with Advanced Networked Lighting Controls or Luminaire Level Lighting Controls in 2026. The Wattsmart Business team will select the top three trade allies with the highest project count to receive the award.
Timeline: Projects submitted by deadline of 11/30/2026 will qualify for this promotion (or until allocated funds are exhausted).
Claim your reward: Tap into the expertise at Wattsmart Business to receive a personalized, professional case study and collect an award for your work in promoting lighting controls.
All data will be verified and tracked for accuracy.
Questions? Call your outreach specialist or contact us at 1-866-870-3419 or Wattsmart@evergreen.energy.
New LED lighting incentives now available for medium-sized Utah businesses
Medium-sized businesses in Utah now qualify for higher incentives when they upgrade to energy-efficient LED lighting. Previously available only to small businesses, these benefits are now accessible through an expansion of Wattsmart® Business’s Small and Medium Business Express (SMBE) incentives.
Medium-sized businesses are now eligible for larger incentives, making it easier to save energy, money and time when upgrading to LED lighting. This could be a fit for your business if you:
- Plan to upgrade from non-LED to LED lighting.
- Use an approved SMBE Trade Ally for installation.
If you have already upgraded to LED lighting or have another type of project in mind, see our other offerings to find out how you can save.
SMBE incentives can cover up to 75% of your total project costs, depending on the installed wattage and associated controls. Benefits of upgrading include:
- Lower energy and operating costs
- Improved lighting quality and workplace safety
- Enhanced employee productivity and customer comfort
- Higher value for your business
- And more!
To learn more or confirm eligibility, contact us at 1-866-870-3419 or Wattsmart@evergreen.energy.
You can verify your business size category online or speak with your outreach specialist if you have any questions.
NOTE: Incentives only available through Small and Medium Business Express trade allies. Incentive caps apply. Actual incentive amounts may vary.
Program Changes for Rocky Mountain Power Wattsmart® Business – Utah
Program changes proposed for Rocky Mountain Power Wattsmart® Business effective July 11, 2025.
Watch our video or read below for more details.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
| Offer Letter dated prior to 6/11/25; projects completed prior to 7/11/25 | We will use the program version in effect when the incentive offer letter was issued. |
| Offer Letter dated from 6/11/25-7/11/25 | Option to run on either incentive structure. |
| Offer Letter dated 7/11/25 or after | New program with changes is in full effect. |
QUESTIONS? Contact us, we are happy to help!
Featured Vendor – Codale Electric Supply
Congratulations to our Wattsmart Lighting Madness promotion winner, Codale Electric Supply, Inc. of Salt Lake City. Codale was founded in 1975 and has been a Wattsmart vendor for more than 15 years.
They were the top finisher with 868,488 kWh in savings. For their efforts, they earned a $10,000 incentive and a personalized Rocky Mountain Power case study which will be included in an upcoming Wattsmart Wednesday segment on Fox13.
Let us know if you think we should offer more promotions like this one by taking our brief, one-question survey in the email you received.
Wattsmart Lighting Madness Winners 2024!
Codale Electric Supply was our first-place finisher in the Wattsmart Madness promotion!
They earned:
- A $10,000 performance incentive for their effort.
- A personalized case study ad.
- A feature on an upcoming segment of Rocky Mountain Power’s Wattsmart Wednesday on Fox 13!
Congratulations!
Additionally, congratulations to our semi-finalists. The runner-up was Lighting Maintenance & Service, Inc. (LMS).
For finishing second, they earned
- A $5,000 performance incentive.
- A personalized case study ad.
- A feature in an upcoming Rocky Mountain Power social media post.
In third place was DiVi Energy, LLC, and in fourth place, Conserve-A-Watt Lighting. Both will receive
- A $2,500 performance incentive.
- A personalized case study ad.
Thank you to all our vendors who participated and helped their customers save energy through incentives.
Utah Training Event
Look for an email invitation to our annual 2025 Wattsmart Business and Wattsmart Homes Vendor event in Sandy, Utah, on April 30, 2025, from 7:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
The goal of this event is for you to come away saying, “Wow, I learned some good stuff.” We will share the agenda soon. In the meantime, know that:
- It will be an interactive, expo-style event again.
- New this year, you can consult with our marketing experts for promotional tips about how to grow your business and reputation.
- You’ll learn about available Wattsmart Business incentives.
- We will review the 2025 Utah program changes.
- We can discuss and ask questions about current trends and technologies in today’s energy-saving market.
- You should enjoy breakfast.
- Plan on taking home some fun and useful gifts!
Brad Gilchrist, Customer Outreach
Brad joined the Salt Lake City-based non-lighting outreach team in June 2023 on the customer outreach side of the program. Brad comes from an executive sales role, most recently as the national sales manager for Dowdle Puzzles. He brings great energy, new perspective, strategy and out-of-the-box thinking to the team.
Brad is a lifelong Disneyland fan, having recently returned from a four-day trip to the park where he showed his grandkids how many miles he could walk in a day. Brad’s hobbies include University of Utah football, cooking and spending time with his family.
Brad can be reached at bgilchrist@resource-innovations.com.
Felipe Gomez, Field Specialist
Felipe Gomez, Field Specialist
Felipe is a new field specialist in the Utah area. He brings over 10 years of experience in professional sales, account and project management to the team. He has already jumped right in to help vendors and customers navigate and maximize the incentives from the Wattsmart Business programs. One of his first projects was creating personalized leave-behind cards containing a link to the Lighting Tool Tutorial video and each specialist’s contact information (see images above and below).
Prior to Evergreen, Felipe was a senior account executive at Zidy.com, an account manager specialist at Acima and a business development manager at Micare Solutions. He is the founder of the Utah Latino Business Expo. In his free time, Felipe enjoys sports, traveling and collectibles.
Felipe can be reached at Felipe.Gomez@evergreen.energy.
Advanced Network Lighting Controls Recommissioning
ANLC RxCx
In the U.S., we have seen that some of the highest Networked Lighting Controls (NLC) adoption rates are in Utah. We would love to attribute this success to our amazing incentive offerings, but there are also other factors.
- People in Utah love the outdoors, so they have a strong desire for conservation and taking care of their environment.
- Utah is also home to the Silicone Slopes area and a general love for technology. That is evident by the number of lighting control companies headquartered in the state, offering local support for projects using this groundbreaking technology.
As a result, many NLCs that were commissioned years ago probably need a checkup. Our programs include the word “Advanced” to Networked Lighting Controls and generally refer to them as ANLCs. That is not just to be clever; it represents a superior system set to maximize savings. In the case of older ANLC projects, the “Advanced” term might be dropping off as commissioning gets out of date or sensors fail with time. That is why we created the Advanced Networked Lighting Controls Recommissioning (ANLC RxCx) incentive.
Timing
An ANLC RxCx project is eligible for incentives three years from when the project was initially completed. Pre-approval is not required. A vendor can revisit any ANLC project three years or older and offer a low-cost (or, in some cases, free) recommissioning of the controls system. The incentive on these is quite lucrative and will likely cap at 70-100% of eligible costs, depending on the full project scope.
70% cost cap
If the recommissioning space would benefit from other lighting upgrades, this project would fall into the 70% cost cap category. Although the customer will have a co-pay, they can change out some of those lights that weren’t in the original scope. Because incentives carry over from the ANLC RxCx portion to the retrofit part of the project, it can make an area with less savings look attractive due to the increased incentives. This is a great option when there is the potential for additional scope to the project.
100% cost cap
Projects limited to only ANLC RxCx measures have a 100% cost cap. If anything more than RxCx is added to the lighting tool, it will revert to a 70% cost cap calculation. This may include any eligible cost related to the ANLC RxCx project.
Eligible costs
Although each project is unique , here is the list of items we expect to encounter on an invoice.
- Time billed for the recommissioning agent
- Reasonable travel costs (if out of territory)
- Labor hours to replace failed equipment
- Material costs for failed equipment if the manufacturer warranty period has passed (five-year minimum for DLC)
In all other cases, you must confirm with our staff before starting your project to ensure those costs are eligible.
Our team is working to make this process as simple as possible. We maintain a list of eligible projects by vendor and can provide this list at any time. To facilitate the process, we are working on importing previous lighting tools to get that portion done in advance.
The best part about this measure is that it can be repeated every three years. We recommend setting a calendar reminder to contact your customer to make sure their system is still working at 100%. While in touch, see what other projects they may have for you.