Smart Ideas for Your Business: Completing A Smart Ideas Application

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Smart Ideas for Your Business Completing A
Smart Ideas Application
Webinar Dates May 27, June 3, June 10, June 17
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Agenda

• Purpose of Webinar
• Downloading Application
• Project Eligibility
• Equipment Eligibility
• Apply for Reservation
• Project Installation
• Submit Final Application

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Purpose

• Demonstrate that time invested in understanding
  and complying with program requirements on the
  front end is a worthy investment
• Reduce the amount of time required between
  initial application and a paid incentive check
• Eliminate inefficiencies resulting from phone tag
  between customers, trade allies and Smart Ideas
  program staff
• Reduce the potential for errors,
  misunderstandings, and lost opportunities

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Downloading Application

• Applications are found on the Smart Ideas website
• www.comed.com/bizincentives
• Prescriptive application
• Custom application
• Program Year Two applications are available June
  1st 2009
• Applications are in two formats
• New in Program Year Two Excel spreadsheet
  format
• Same as Program Year One pdf format
• Also on website
• Spec sheets
• Policies and Procedures
• FAQs

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Participant (Customer) Eligibility

• Must be a delivery service customer of ComEd with
  a valid account number
• Electricity can be supplied by a Retail Electric
  Supplier (RES) as long as the electricity is
  delivered by ComEd
• Must be on an eligible ComEd non-residential rate
• Eligible rates are listed on the application form
• Customers of municipal utilities such as
  Naperville, St. Charles, Batavia, etc are not
  eligible for Smart Ideas programs

Note Participant (customer) eligibility is the
first check performed. Technical review begins
after the eligibility check is completed.
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What Measures Are Eligible for an Incentive?

• Prescriptive Measures
• Equipment upgrades
• Lighting
• Cooling
• Refrigeration
• Motors
• Custom Measures
• Incentives apply to
• Retrofits
• Industrial process improvements
• Efficiency improvements not captured by the
  prescriptive program

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Measure Eligibility

• Equipment/measures must be new
• Applicants must certify (via signing the
  application form), that decisions to acquire and
  install the indicated energy efficiency
  measures...were made after April 1, 2009 and that
  work was completed...on or after June 1, 2009.
• All installed equipment must meet or exceed given
  specifications found in application
• If an electricity-saving measure is not found on
  the prescriptive incentive form, it may be
  eligible for a custom incentive
• High performance lamp and ballasts must meet CEE
  criteria

Note Some Year One pre-applications represented
compliance with program specifications, terms and
conditions, only to find out later in
documentation supplied with the final application
that the measures installed did not meet the
program specifications, terms and conditions.
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Lighting Equipment Eligibility

• Lighting equipment specifications rely upon the
  efficiency specifications developed by the
  Consortium for Energy Efficiency
• Refer to the CEE website to check for eligible
  lighting equipment
• www.Cee1.org

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What are the Application Process Steps and
Timing?
Step 1 Check Project and Equipment Eligibility

• Step 2 Submit a Pre-approval Application
• (required for all custom projects, permanent
  lamp removal, and retrofit to new
  T8/T5 fixtures)
• Check the Pre-approval check box on the
  application
• Complete the appropriate worksheet
• Pre-Approval Applications need customer
  signatures

Pre-approve up to 90 days before project
completion

• Step 3 Install Equipment or Perform Project Work
• Maintain documentation

• Step 4 Submit a Final Application (Same form as
  Pre)
• Check the Final check box on the application
• Submit all required supporting documentation
• Final applications need customer signature
• Step 5 Receive Incentive Payment (4 - 6 weeks)

Submit final within 60 days of project
completion
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• Prescriptive Applications
• There are now 4 separate applications
• Lighting
• Motors
• HVAC
• Refrigeration
• Use the Excel version of the application for
  convenience and accuracy.

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Project Installation

• If pre-approval is required (mandatory for custom
  measures and some prescriptive measures), make
  sure you have received the reservation letter
  prior to starting your project
• Project installation should follow scope
  identified in the pre-application
• Reservations are good for 90 days extensions are
  available

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Submit a final application

• Submit final application upon project completion
• Supplemental documentation should include
• Invoices
• Purchase orders
• Specification sheets
• Detailed scope of work
• Complete documentation ensures faster project
  reviews and check processing

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Proper Invoices should include details such as

• Material costs
• Material quantities
• Material model numbers
• Total project costs
• Invoice dates

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Additional Information needed

• Ballast specification sheets for retrofit lamps
• Ballast specification for New T8 fixtures
• Lamp specification sheets for retrofit lamps
• Lamp specification sheets for New T8 fixtures
• New fixture specification sheets

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Problem Lighting Application

• No scope of work / incorrect scope of work
• No invoicing / not detailed invoicing
• No spec sheets
• Incomplete application

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Non Lighting Application
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Custom Application
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Use extra pages if necessary
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Questions?

• Program Hotline [phone]
• Program Fax [phone]
• Program Email ComEdSmartIdeas_at_KEMA.com
• Your ComEd Account Manager is a resource
• ComEd Smart Ideas for Your Business office
• 120 East Liberty Drive
• Suite 290
• Wheaton, IL 60187
• www.ComEd.com
• Program information
• Application forms
• Policy and Procedures