Apartment and Condo Incentives
Focus on Energy helps multifamily building owners and developers enjoy lower operating costs and a better bottom line that accompanies energy efficiency. Residents appreciate a lower cost of living and a much more comfortable living space.
Focus on Energy offers a variety of services to apartment & condo owners:For more information, please visit Focus on Energy.
Business Lighting Technologies Incentives
Energy efficient lighting options are available for all types of businesses and their needs. For example, businesses can install compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) for task lighting, and high performance T8 systems or high bay fluorescent fixtures for larger lighting applications. Businesses may also utilize lighting control systems, including day lighting controls and occupancy sensors, to turn lights down or off when not needed.
Focus on Energy offers a wide variety of financial incentives for energy efficient lighting systems and occupancy sensors. For more information, please visit Focus on Energy.
CFL Bulb Exchange Incentive
Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) help conserve natural resources like coal and gas by using far less electricity than common incandescent bulbs. CFLs last longer, too. Unfortunately, some good things do end and your CFL will eventually burn out.
Because CFL's and other fluorescent lamps contain a small amount of mercury and screw-in type CFL's have electronic components, the US Environmental Protection Agency recommends that the lamps be properly recycled.
Your community-owned utility, Stoughton Utilities, has an easy way for you to do this while instantly saving money on a replacement CFL.
Don't throw that dark CFL in the trash can. Take it along with the completed coupon to Asleson's True Value or Stoughton Lumber - Ace Hardware in Stoughton. Present your CFL's and the coupon to the sales clerk and receive $1 off for each new CFL you purchase as a replacement for each one you brought in for recycling. Replacement bulbs must be ENERGY STAR qualified. Stoughton Utilities will collect these old CFL's and see that they are properly recycled.
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ENERGY STAR® Qualified Appliances
Products that have earned the ENERGY STAR have the highest rating a product can earn for energy efficiency (translation: They're cheaper to use!). By using less energy, it reduces pollution and is better for the environment. The average home spends about $1,900 on energy costs every year. Change to appliances that have earned the ENERGY STAR, and you can save $80 a year in energy costs, while saving the environment.
Click here for a list of available cash rewards.
For more information, on ENERGY STAR® qualified appliances, please visit Focus on Energy.
Participating Builder/Consultant Tools
Wisconsin's Focus on Energy program offers services for consultants and builders participating in the Wisconsin ENERGY STAR® Homes Program including Wisconsin ENERGY STAR Homes paperwork, standards and guidelines, cooperative advertising information, site visits, and more.
For more information, please visit Focus on Energy.
Renewable Energy Customer Incentive
Install a qualifying renewable energy system and you may be eligible for a grants and rebates to help offset your upfront costs. Wisconsin Focus on Energy offers financial incentives to help Wisconsin homes, farms and businesses take advantage of clean, green, renewable energy. Various incentives can cover anything from site evaluations to system purchases and installation.
The following renewable energy technologies qualify for rebates or financing: - Solar domestic hot water systems
- Solar electric (photovoltaic) systems
- Small-scale wind generators
If you are not sure if a renewable system is right for your home, we can help you get a professional opinion. Site assessments performed by certified site assessors qualify for a rebate of 75% of the assessment fee (maximum of $375).
For more information on renewable energy customer incentives, please visit Focus on Energy.
Tree Power Incentive
Planting trees can save money and energy in heating and cooling. Shade trees on the south and west sides of your home make hot summers cooler and let in warming sunlight when the leaves are gone in winter. Trees are also a natural air filter, removing dust and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, while adding oxygen.
Stoughton Utilities offers cash incentives for planting shade trees to conserve energy. You may be eligible for up to $50 per qualifying tree if you follow our eligibility guidelines.
Residential customers of Stoughton Utilities can apply for an incentive to plant qualified shade trees in locations that will reduce their air conditioning costs. Each qualified tree receives an incentive of 50% of the purchase price, up to $50 per tree, and each customer can apply for incentives on up to three trees.
Shade trees must meet the following criteria:
- Any of the following are approved:
- Maple (freeman, norway, red, sugar, black, silver)
- Common Hackberry
- American Beech
- Sentry Gingko, Honeylocust
- Kentucky Coffeetree
- Sycamore
- Oak (white, swamp white, pin, red)
- Linden (american, littleleaf, redmond)
- Hybrid Elm
- Birch (river, paper, whitespire)
- American Yellowwood
- Maco Amur Corktree
- Must be nursery grade stock.
- Must have the potential to attain a height of at least 30 feet when mature.
- Must have a caliper of at least 1 1/4 inches at time of planting.
- Must be planted in a location that provides significant shading of an air conditioning unit or the south, southwest or west exposure of a home upon tree maturity. Stoughton Utilities recommends planting shade tree(s) approximately 25 to 35 feet away from the house to be shaded.
- Must be located away from underground and overhead utility lines.
- Applicant must call Digger's Hotline at 811 prior to planting tree(s). The hotline ID number must be reported on the application.
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