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Discover Program Benefits and Valuable Resources

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Are you taking advantage of all our program benefits?

As a participating vendor in the Wattsmart® Business program, you have a range of benefits available to help grow your business. You can access new customers, financial incentives and marketing support while contributing to energy efficiency and sustainability. Offering program rebates to your customers helps close more projects and build trust for repeat business.

Your outreach representative is ready to assist you with projects and can even attend customer meetings with you. You are the first to know about program updates and enjoy exclusive vendor incentives. Plus, we offer vendor events, annual awards and other opportunities to recognize your contributions. Being part of a respected energy efficiency program like Wattsmart Business also positions your business as a leader in sustainability, and that helps you stand out in a competitive market. If you have questions about how to leverage the Wattsmart Business program to take your business to the next level, contact your outreach representative today!

Drive more business opportunities with our vendor website

WattsmartIncentives.com is Pacific Power’s Wattsmart Business Vendor website that offers a streamlined platform to access valuable incentives, resources and program updates to support your energy-efficient projects. By using the site, you can:

The website helps you maximize your customers’ savings, simplify project management and drive more business opportunities through energy efficiency solutions.

Take lighting retrofits to the next level with Advanced Networked Lighting Controls

Are you leveraging the benefits of Advanced Networked Lighting Controls for your customers’ projects? If you aren’t familiar with ANLC, these systems connect individual lighting fixtures together through a digital network which enables centralized management and automation to improve energy efficiency.

Key benefits of ANLC:

  1. Increased lifespan of new LED fixtures
  2. Reduced heat stress on LED fixtures
  3. Advanced control and customization
  4. Real-time monitoring and data analytics
  5. Improved energy savings – lowering energy bills

When you propose ANLC to your customers, you offer them an optimal solution to reduce energy consumption and, in most cases, improve their projects’ simple payback.

Let’s take a look at a recent California project where ANLC resulted in a faster return on investment and will provide operational savings to the customer for years to come. While presenting the savings calculations of switching to LEDs to the project’s facility director, the vendor learned that the expensive and timely process of maintenance was another factor that prompted the lighting upgrade. The vendor recognized an opportunity to provide expert guidance and proposed two options to the customer.

Although there were additional upfront costs associated with ANLC, there were also additional incentives . The facility director saw the value in the additional $3,300 annual savings and is extremely pleased with end result.

Proposed without controls
Proposed with controls

2025 California Vendor Incentives

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2025 Wattsmart Business Vendor Incentives for Installing Lighting Upgrades

NEW! 

Approved Wattsmart Business Lighting Vendors* in California: We are excited to inform you that Pacific Power is offering the following vendor incentives! 

  • $0.05 per kWh saved cash vendor incentive for Typical lighting retrofit projects. 
  • $300 per customer location for Small Business Lighting projects.

Typical Lighting Retrofit Projects 

Receive a vendor cash incentive at a rate of $0.05 per kWh saved for helping Pacific Power business customers in California save money with qualifying lighting upgrades. 

This vendor incentive offer is for the Wattsmart Business Vendor submitting the project (yes, this is for you!) and in addition to the customer incentives available through Wattsmart Business. Pacific Power offers significant cash customer incentives up to 80% of eligible costs to help with the up-front costs of your customer’s project. Get more details on our website. 

How It Works

For qualifying lighting projects, vendors receive the vendor incentive of $0.05 per kWh annual energy savings with a maximum vendor incentive of $5,000 per customer location in 2025. Each vendor location is eligible to receive $20,000 in total incentives in 2025. 

Vendor incentives are first come, first served, and the vendor incentive offer may terminate earlier than the eligibility timeline if allocated funding is exhausted. The program will email the Wattsmart Business Vendor Network if these funds are exhausted. See table for examples of vendor incentives. 

Project kWhVendor Incentive
25,000$1,250
50,000$2,500
75,000$3,750
100,000 & above$5,000 

Eligibility Timeline

Typical lighting retrofit projects must have an incentive offer issued between January 1, 2025, and November 1, 2025. All projects must be complete, and all project documentation and invoices must be received no later than November 30, 2025.  

For post-purchase projects with invoices dated January 1, 2025, and after: Vendors must submit all project documentation and invoices to the program by November 30, 2025, to receive the vendor incentive. 

Small Business Lighting (SBL) Projects

Receive a cash incentive of $300 per customer location for SBL projects. 

This vendor incentive offer is for approved Wattsmart SBL vendors submitting the project and is in addition to available customer incentives through Wattsmart Business. 

How It Works 

Approved SBL vendors receive a $300 vendor incentive per customer location for SBL projects. Vendor incentives for SBL projects are first come, first served, and the vendor incentive offer may terminate earlier than the eligibility timeline if allocated funding is exhausted. The program will communicate with the approved SBL vendors if these funds are exhausted. 

Who Is Eligible?

Wattsmart Business approved SBL vendors in good standing are eligible. If you are interested in participating in this program, contact your outreach coordinator. 

Eligibility Timeline

New projects submitted between January 1, 2025, and November 1, 2025, are eligible to receive the vendor incentive. Vendors must submit all project documentation and invoices to the program no later than November 30, 2025. All project-related invoice dates must be January 1, 2025, or later.

*If you’re not currently a Wattsmart Business Vendor, you must be an Approved Wattsmart Business Vendor prior to project closeout in order to receive these lighting upgrade vendor incentives.