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Lighting and Lighting Controls

Lighting upgrades are often the best—and easiest—way to make energy-efficient improvements to your property.

Energy Trust offers incentives for a wide range of efficient lighting and lighting controls options. We also offer technical assistance and can connect you with a Business Lighting trade ally to help you meet your goals.

Lighting and Lighting Controls

  1. Establish your eligibility.

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    Energy Trust provides cash incentives to Oregon businesses for energy-efficiency and renewable energy projects. To qualify, you must:

    • Be served by Portland General Electric or Pacific Power and contribute to the public purpose charge. Check your utility bill or contact us if you have questions.
    • Have a project site in Oregon.

  2. Contact an Energy Trust Business Lighting trade ally.

    To receive incentives, you must work with a qualified Energy Trust Business Lighting trade ally. Your trade ally will submit your project documentation to Energy Trust on your behalf.

    If your lighting project is eligible, you will receive an Incentive Application Form (120L) from Energy Trust. You must review and sign (via DocuSign) by the deadline listed on the form.

  3. Have equipment installed.

    Your lighting project must be completed, with all documentation submitted, before the incentive reservation expiration date listed on your Incentive Application Form (120L). Your trade ally will submit invoices and all other final completion documentation to Energy Trust on your behalf.

    Note: A post-installation verification may apply. Your trade ally will assist with verification documentation and scheduling arrangements.

  4. Receive your incentive.

    You will receive a Completion Certificate form (140L) from Energy Trust. You must review and sign (via DocuSign) before you receive your incentive.

Energy Trust offers incentives for a wide range of lighting applications. The solutions below are those most frequently installed in Oregon. Additional requirements may apply. Contact a Business Lighting trade ally for more details.

To receive lighting incentives, you must work with an Energy Trust Business Lighting trade ally. We will not accept incentive applications from non-trade allies, or directly from customers who are planning to install their own projects.

Equipment Incentive Requirements
LED retrofit lamps $1.50-$9 per lamp, up to 40% of eligible measure cost

Most must replace pin/screw-in incandescent or compact fluorescent.
High-intensity discharge (HID) lamps to LED screw-in retrofit lamps $15-$45 per lamp, up to 40% of eligible measure cost

Omni-directional, directional, and high-bay screw-in lamps must replace existing HID.

Existing HID ballasts must be removed.
TLED retrofit $0.60 per linear foot, up to 40% of eligible measure cost

Replace any existing technology.

If replacing fluorescent, existing ballasts must be removed or replaced.
TLED relamp $0.30 per linear foot, up to 40% of eligible measure cost

Relamp only. Replace existing fluorescent fixture, operating on existing ballast.

No ballast change-out required.
Interior LED $12-$45 per fixture, up to 40% of eligible measure cost

Retrofit-kits and new fixtures, existing ballast and lamp sockets removed, non TLED.

LED fixtures ≤100W are eligible.
Exterior LED $12-$235 per fixture, up to 40% of eligible measure cost

Pole/arm mounted, wall-mounted, parking garage, fuel pump canopy, downlights, architectural flood/spot lighting.

Non screw-in only.

Fixtures used for public roadways, including street lighting, are not eligible for incentives.
High-bay/Low-bay LED $75-$175 per fixture, up to 40% of eligible measure cost

Fixtures must be QPL listed in the High-Bay category.

Non screw-in in retrofit kits.
Lighting Controls $19.50-$60 per sensor, up to 100% of eligible measure cost

Interior vacancy or occupancy/exterior occupancy.

Control loads vary.
LED cooler/freezer display case lighting (includes motion sensors & LEDs) $1.60-$16 per linear foot, up to 40% of eligible measure cost

LED fixtures must be listed as case lighting on DLC product list
Custom lighting controls $0.20 per annual kWh saved, up to 40% of eligible measure cost

To be eligible, each custom lighting controls measure must be reviewed and pre-qualified by Energy Trust. Contact an Energy Trust Business Lighting trade ally to get started.
Custom lighting $0.15 per annual kWh saved, up to 40% of eligible measure cost

To be eligible, each custom lighting measure must be reviewed and pre-qualified by Energy Trust. Contact an Energy Trust Business Lighting trade ally to get started.

Incentives are subject to funding availability and may change.

Need Help with Lighting? Contact Us.

Give us a call at 1.800.326.2917 or send us an email at lighting@energytrust.org.