One-Stop Efficiency Shop®:  Your Resource for Business Lighting Support

The soaring popularity of LEDs has led to more choices than ever before. If you would like unbiased assistance do not hesitate to use the Center for Energy and Environment’s (CEE) One-Stop Efficiency Shop® (One-Stop) staff as a technical resource to help you sort through those choices.

Sponsored by Xcel Energy, One-Stop program benefits include:

• Rebates up to 60% of the project cost.
• Rebates for all types of LEDs, both interior and exterior.
• Rebates for lighting controls.
• Rebates for existing T12s.
• Below market-rate financing, including a 0% loan for qualified nonprofits.
• Completion and submittal of all program paperwork.

Also, One-Stop does not require one-for-one replacement. New lighting systems should fit your customers’ needs and One-Stop gives you that flexibility. We hope you find these services and rebates valuable.

Programs like One-Stop are available due to Minnesota’s Conservation Improvement Program (CIP). If you are unfamiliar with CIP, it provides the framework and utility funding for rebate programs in Minnesota that promote energy efficiency. Many of you take advantage of these programs on a regular basis to help your customers install more efficient equipment. Not only does this help them save money and improve the operation of their buildings, it helps all Minnesota ratepayers by keeping their rates lower and avoiding the cost of constructing new power plants and other utility infrastructure.

Benefits from CIP for Minnesota businesses and ratepayers include:

• Supporting almost 50,000 Minnesota workers in the energy efficiency sector.
• Since 2006, reducing carbon in Minnesota equal to pulling approximately 1.7 million cars off the road for a full year.
• Saving Minnesotans over $6 billion in the past 20 years.

Saving one kWh costs less than two cents and buying one kWh costs eight cents. The Cadmus Group, an independent and well-respected national consulting firm, recently found that every dollar spent on CIP returns four dollars in benefits to the state. Please let your legislators know how valuable CIP is for you and your customers.

In 2019, One-Stop will facilitate $7 million in rebates to participating businesses. If you would like more information about the program or to find out if your customers are eligible, please contact Cindy Kelly at 612-244-2427 or [email protected].