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Your organization knows there are opportunities to save energy, but other priorities prevent it from happening. Hire an energy manager to develop a plan, keep it on track, and meet your sustainability goals.
Our Strategic Energy Manager Initiative supports the hiring of an on-site energy manager to provide focus and expertise, and to take a strategic approach to energy reduction within your organization. The program provides financial incentives to offset the salary of a full-time energy manager as well as a variety of other supports to help build a system of continuous improvement helping your organization foster a culture of conservation, continuous improvement, and long-term energy savings.
We provide ongoing coaching for your in-house energy management team, provide funding for Certified Energy Manager Training, support the development of a Strategic Energy Management Plan, and facilitate the tracking and reporting of energy savings. Your organization will benefit from addressing your corporate sustainability goals and allow you to collaborate with a growing network of energy managers.
We cover the cost of a professionally led Strategic Energy Management Workshop. This workshop is designed to bring your organization together as a team, allowing you to collaborate and work towards identifying and implementing energy-saving opportunities. It also helps your organization track progress and recognize achievements in saving energy. Success requires buy-in from the entire organization, and the workshop is an important first step to begin this process.
We support the on-site energy manager with coaching to develop your organization’s Strategic Energy Management Plan. This is a formal energy reduction plan that outlines annual savings targets, potential energy-saving projects, activities in progress, and completed measures. Additional coaching throughout the program will continue to build your energy manager’s expertise.
We provide an enhanced incentive structure to support your energy reduction efforts. You receive bonus incentives on top of our standard program incentives as well as incentives for low-cost and no-cost maintenance projects that aren’t eligible through our other offers. This ensures you’re rewarded for taking additional steps to plan, implement, and optimize your energy use. These extra incentives are designed to offset the hiring of a dedicated energy manager.
We provide funding towards pre-approved training courses that will build your energy manager’s knowledge and expertise. This includes the Certified Energy Manager training course along with other opportunities identified throughout the program.
What gets measured gets managed. We maintain an extensive Equipment Lending Library where your energy manager can borrow instruments and logging tools to help understand your organization’s energy use. Instruments include ultrasonic leak detectors, air flow meters, data loggers, power meters, infrared cameras and thermometers, and other valuable tools.
We can help you be successful in your commitment to conservation. We’ll equip you with a variety of marketing resources, templates, digital assets, and tips that you can easily implement within your organization as part of your energy reduction communication strategy, driving employee engagement and leaving you time with more time to focus on energy reduction projects.
We can provide up-front funding to offset the initial cost of hiring an energy manager. The funding is available based on an evaluation of a participant’s savings potential. This amount is provided at the start of the program and acts as a credit toward future incentives earned from energy-saving projects.
Please provide some basic information about the feasibility study you’re proposing. We’ll review it and get back to you with next steps.
Please provide some basic details about your steam system. We’ll review it and get back to you with next steps.
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Do you have a project or system upgrade in mind for your facility that you think will save energy, and need a better understanding of your options and potential costs? A Feasibility Study can quantify the technical viability, potential energy savings, and overall project economics.
This program is ideal for industrial, commercial, or agricultural facilities that rely on technologies such as the following:
We offer financial incentives of 50% of the study cost, up to a maximum incentive of $20,000.
A third-party consultant of your choice will conduct a comprehensive study of your potential project, which will quantify the costs, benefits, and savings associated with the project. If you decide to move forward with the project, you can use the information from the study to apply for incentives through our Custom Energy Solutions Program for your energy efficiency upgrades.
Only studies that evaluate electricity and natural gas savings will be considered.
See our Feasibility Study Guide for more information.
Fill out our questionnaire and describe the energy-saving project you want to evaluate. We’ll review it to confirm your project is eligible.
Once we’ve determined you‘re eligible, choose a third-party consultant to conduct the Feasibility Study for you.
Submit your Feasibility Study Financial Incentive Application form along with a Feasibility Study proposal (based on the outline in the Feasibility Study guide) to us.
Once we’ve approved your application, the third-party consultant you‘ve chosen can proceed with the study. The study must be completed within 12 months from the time we approve your application.
Once the study is complete, submit the Feasibility Study Report prepared by your consultant along with your invoice to us. We’ll review your report and send you an incentive.
Compressed air systems often consume significant amounts of energy. Improving your compressed air system can lower your energy costs. It can also help correct low air pressure, moisture in the air lines, poor reliability, and production outages.
As a free service, we’ll perform a benchmark study of your compressed air system to identify energy-saving opportunities. We work with pre-qualified compressed air specialists who will visit your facility and perform a baseline logging of your system. Our technical experts will analyze the data and provide you with a report that has valuable information about your system, helping you identify the appropriate size for replacement units and other areas for improvement. We’ll work with you to identify energy efficiency upgrades that qualify for incentives through our Custom Energy Solutions Program.
On average, 10% of most industrial energy costs are related to energy use needed for compressed air systems. System optimization can cut energy consumption by an average of 30% and upwards to 85% in some cases.
Send us an email indicating that you’re interested in a benchmark study for your compressed air system. We’ll contact you to determine if your facility qualifies for the program.
Once we’ve determined that the program is right for you, choose a contractor from our list of pre-qualified compressed air contractors and contact them to start the project. The contractor will work with you to determine the logging requirements and submit a work order for approval.
The contractor will perform the baseline logging of your compressed air system and provide us with the data.
One of our technical experts will analyze the data and provide you with a report that identifies energy–saving opportunities. Most energy efficiency upgrades will qualify for incentives through our Custom Energy Solutions Program.
The Steam Trap Program is no longer accepting new applications. Customers can instead participate in the new Leak Assessment & Repair Program.
Steam trap audits are ideal for industrial, commercial, and agricultural facilities that operate large steam boilers and distribution systems with many steam traps. On average, 15% to 30% of traps can be failing in steam trap systems that haven’t been maintained for three to five years.* A plant wide steam trap audit can identify those traps needing replacement, helping you save energy and money.
We offer financial incentives for the audit and replacement of failed steam traps of $15 per steam trap tested to a maximum of $10,000 per audit.
*US Department of Energy 2012.
Fill out the Steam Trap Audit Program questionnaire and we’ll help you get started.
Get in touch with a contractor that you’d like to perform the steam trap audit for you and have them provide a quote.
We’ll work with you to fill out and submit a Financial Incentive Application.
We’ll review your application and send your approval by email. After receiving approval, the contractor you’ve chosen can conduct the steam trap audit. Replace the failed traps identified in your audit and start saving energy!
Submit a copy of your steam trap audit report to us along with an invoice showing that you’ve paid the contractor. Once we’ve reviewed the paperwork, we’ll send your incentive by mail.
We encourage you to promote our programs and rebates in your advertisements. Promoting our programs can help you grow your business and boost your image as a supporter of energy efficiency.
Our team has worked hard to develop a brand that’s expert, trustworthy, and friendly. To maintain the integrity of our brand, we put together guidelines to follow if you promote our programs and rebates. Please use the document below as a reference when creating your ads and promotional materials.
We created branded resources to promote your participation as a registered Efficiency Manitoba supplier to your customers. These are designed with efficiency in mind and can be uploaded directly to your website or added to your print materials.
An energy audit is commonly the first step in identifying key opportunities for building owners to reduce their energy consumption (and save money!).
We offer financial incentives and technical support for building owners that complete ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) Level 2 or 3 audits for eligible commercial buildings.
Through the Commercial Energy Audit Program, you’ll be able to select a consultant from our pre-qualified list to perform an energy audit at your commercial building. After the audit, you’ll receive a detailed report summarizing energy-saving opportunities for your building’s envelope, lighting, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, as well as the Efficiency Manitoba incentive programs that are applicable to you.
| MAXIMUM INCENTIVE | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUILDING TYPE | NUMBER OF STOREYS | BUILDING SIZE | (up to 50% of energy audit cost) | |
| ASHRAE LEVEL 2 | ASHRAE LEVEL 3 | |||
| Office, education, hotel, recreation/arena, healthcare, multi-unit residential, or industrial with offices | Four or more | Any size | $3,200 | $12,500 |
| One to three | Greater than 60,000 square feet | |||
| 30,000 to 60,000 square feet | $2,200 | $8,000 | ||
| Less than 30,000 square feet | $1,200 | $4,200 | ||
| All other building types | Any | Any Size | ||
For building owners interested in pursuing incentives for specific energy-saving measures related to process loads within their industrial building, you may also be eligible for our Custom Energy Solutions Program.
Having an ASHRAE Level 2 energy audit completed on your building can provide the following information:
Selecting an ASHRAE Level 3 energy audit would provide all the above information, plus:
If you need help submitting your online application, selecting your pre-qualified consultant, or uploading program deliverables, check out our “how-to” videos for step-by-step instructions.
