Refrigeration Equipment

Benefits

Better temperature control

Minimize food waste

Year-round savings

Improved refrigeration controls can help your equipment run more efficiently and better maintain the temperature, reducing food loss and your energy bills.

Incentives

$75 to $125 each

Anti-Sweat Heater (ASH) Controls

Controls installed in cooler ($75 each) or freezer case ($125 each) and reduces the ASH run time by at least 50%.

$9 to $30 per sq.ft.

Strip Curtains

$9 per sq.ft. of door area when added to grocery cooler or convenience store freezer. $30 per sq.ft. when added to a grocery freezer.

$250 to $500

ECM Evaporator Fan Motor

$250 per ECM motor for walk-ins with less than 23 Watt motors, $275 per ECM motor for display case motors, and $500 for walk-ins with 23 Watt and larger evaporator fan motors.

up to $17 per foot

LED Case Lighting

Any upgrades beyond PUD incentives qualify for low-rate EnergySmart financing.

Eligibility

Is your building eligible for an incentive on commercial refrigeration equipment?

1. Your Space & Fuel Type

  ASH controls: Equipment can be installed either retrofit or new construction
  ECM, strip curtains, or LED case lighting: Retrofit existing equipment only
  Equipment must be electric

2. New Equipment

Your new equipment must be electric and:

  ASH controls:Must reduce the ASH run time by at least 50%. For retrofit, the existing equipment must have an uncontrolled ASH that uses more than 0.20 amps/ft of a cooler case or greater than 0.39 amps/ft of a freezer case

  Strip curtains:Curtains or swinging doors must be at least 0.06-inches thick and low-temperature curtains or doors must be used on low-temperature applications. Must be installed on grocery walk-in freezers and coolers, convenience store walk-in freezers, and restaurant walk-in freezers where there are no existing curtains or plastic doors. (Not eligible: walk-in freezers located inside of walk-in coolers, walk-in coolers in restaurants, drug or convenience stores, replacement of existing strip curtains or strip curtains on display cases.)

  Walk-in or display case evaporator fan ECM: ECM must replace a shaded pole evaporator fan motor. For walk-in coolers and freezers, motors must have fans that are at 10 in. in diameter or larger. For refrigerated display cases, all fan sizes are eligible.

  LED case lighting: Please contact us to add your business to our next round of lighting installations.

3. Paperwork

Apply

1. Install Your New Equipment

Work with your contractor to make sure eligible equipment is installed.

2. Send in Paperwork

Gather your paperwork and send them (or as your contractor to submit them) to drew.thompson@chelanpud.org or:

Chelan County PUD
PO Box 1231
Wenatchee, WA 98807-1231

What Happens Next?

We'll review your paperwork, and contact you if anything is missing or we need more information.

With your paperwork complete, we might schedule an inspection to make sure the correct equipment was installed.

If all checks out, you'll receive your incentive payment in the mail, or we can pay your contractor directly.

Drew Thompson

Hi, I'm Drew

Questions? Talk with Drew Thompson, Chelan PUD commercial energy advisor. Call (509) 661-8560 or email drew.thompson@chelanpud.org.