Energy-Efficient Lighting Design

The Energy-Efficient Lighting Design offer provides financial incentives and tools to help building developers and their design teams create and install more effective and energy-efficient lighting in new (or major building retrofits) commercial and institutional development projects.

The offer

• Energy Efficient Lighting Design Study. A $1,000 incentive for creating a lighting design that exceeds building code by 10% or greater savings.
• Energy Efficient Lighting Capital Incentive. A capital incentive to install the new lighting. The incentive will be based on the total electrical savings of the energy-efficient design. A Lighting Calculator tool is used to assist your lighting designer with an energy efficient lighting design that exceeds building code and calculates the capital incentive for the lighting system.

Eligibility

• For any new (or major building retrofit) commercial, institutional or multi-unit residential buildings with potential savings higher than 10,000 kWh
• Have not ordered or purchased the lighting equipment/system(s)

Register online

Once you are in the planning stages of developing a new commercial or institutional building or are carrying out a substantial retrofit and have selected a lighting designer, you are ready to register and apply for the Energy-Efficient Lighting Design offer.

Ask your lighting designer to calculate the incentives for your new building by completing the Lighting Calculator spreadsheet. Submit this spreadsheet as part of your application package.

Register now.

Resources

• Lamp and Ballast Product Guide [PDF, 256 Kb]
• Recommended Lamp and Ballast Wattages [MS Excel, 67 Kb]

For projects with building permit dated prior to September 5th, 2008:

• Lighting Calculator Spreadsheet [MS Excel, 2.5 Mb]
• Reference Guide for Lighting Calculator [PDF, 139 Kb]

For projects with building permit dated after September 5th, 2008:

• Lighting Calculator Spreadsheet [MS Excel, 2.5 Mb]
• Reference Guide for Lighting Calculator [PDF, 150 Kb]