Existing Facilities Eligibility

Facility owners, management companies, and tenants with the authority to make improvements on the specified building(s) are eligible. Facilities may apply either on their own behalf or through their designated applicant. A facility is a building or structure, or a campus of contiguous buildings.

For electric projects, facilities must pay into the System Benefits Charge (SBC) as electricity distribution customers of one of the following utility companies: Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation; Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.; New York State Electric & Gas Corporation; National Grid; Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.; or Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation. For customers that pay the SBC on less than 50 percent of their facility's total annual electric consumption (kWh), the incentive will be prorated accordingly.

For natural gas projects, facilities must contribute to Con Edison’s Monthly Rate Adjustment (MRA), or be a small commercial National Fuel Gas customer using less than 12,000 Mcf per year.

Multi-family buildings are not eligible for Existing Facilities Program incentives. Please refer to NYSERDA's Multi-Family Home Performance page for more information.

Deadline and Schedule

Applications to the Existing Facilities Program will be accepted through the Consolidated Funding Application (CFA) on a first-come, first-served basis through 5:00 p.m. ET on December 31, 2015, or until funds are exhausted.

Once an application has been approved by NYSERDA, the Applicant has two years to complete the project. See specific incentive pages for more details.

Important Notes

1. Up to 12 months of utility bills may be requested to verify your facility’s annual System Benefits Charge (SBC) contribution. Proration of incentives based on SBC contribution is at NYSERDA’s discretion. 
2. Projects with simple payback periods greater than 18 years (excluding NYSERDA incentives) are ineligible. 
3. The total incentive cannot exceed 50% of the project cost for most projects. For Demand Response projects and projects that bundle electric and/or natural gas efficiency and Demand Response, the total incentive cannot exceed 75% of the project cost. Project cost may include equipment, labor, and engineering expenses.
4. Projects are ineligible if they have a simple payback period less than:
5. Manufacturing and Data Centers: 6 months
6. Farms and on-farm producers: 6 months
7. Commercial and Institutional: 1 year
   
   NYSERDA’s incentives will be adjusted to ensure these payback thresholds are adhered to.
8. All measures must achieve savings for at least five years.
9. Unless otherwise approved by NYSERDA, Performance-Based projects must qualify for an incentive of at least $30,000. Smaller projects may qualify for Pre-Qualified incentives (see page 2).
10. An Applicant or a facility may receive through NYSERDA either a Pre-Qualified incentive or a Performance-Based incentive for a particular energy efficiency measure, but not both. Similarly, an Applicant or facility may receive an incentive for a specific energy efficiency measure either through NYSERDA or one of the utility companies listed above, but not both.
11. All applications will be reviewed and accepted or rejected at NYSERDA’s discretion. NYSERDA will evaluate projects for cost-effectiveness through a Total Resource Cost (TRC) evaluation prior to issuance of a Purchase Order. Applicants may be required to provide NYSERDA with additional information necessary to complete evaluation of the application.