Alberta offers cash for greener lighting


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Commercial Lighting Rebates help businesses fund energy-efficient LED upgrades and green lighting retrofits. Administered by Climate Change Central, incentives follow assessments and deliver savings, lower emissions, and sustainability benefits for offices, restaurants, retail, and warehouses.

 

The Big Picture

Rebates that offset costs for LED retrofits after assessment, lowering business lighting bills and emissions.

  • Pre-assessment required via Climate Change Central
  • Incentives target energy-efficient LED lighting retrofits
  • Potential 50-70% reduction in lighting energy costs

 

The Alberta government is offering financial rebates to businesses that use advanced lighting equipment to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases.

 

Restaurants, offices, and warehouses become eligible for rebates if they make their buildings more energy efficient in practice.

The rebates are available under a new program aimed at encouraging green lighting retrofits for companies.

Environment Minister Rob Renner said some larger companies will be eligible for thousands of dollars in rebates. All businesses have to go through an assessment before becoming eligible for the program, administered by the non-profit group Climate Change Central, as policymakers debate incandescent bulb bans nationwide.

"Taken to it's extreme, it's not out of the realm of possibility for an average commercial building to be able to reduce their lighting costs by anywhere from 50 to 70 per cent."

Renner said the program could have the same environmental impact as taking 40,000 cars off the road over the next 10 years.

Simon Knight, CEO of Climate Change Central, said advances in lighting technology, while CFL mercury concerns persist, can save commercial buildings 50 percent of their energy costs.

"This is going to focus on restaurants, offices, retail buildings multi-unit residential and warehouses," said Knight. "There have been some huge technological advances in lighting and this is why we're concentrating on this effort."

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