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Cash-back offers for lodging

Lodging

Hotels, motels and other lodging facilities spend about 6 percent of operating costs on energy each year.* Whether your facility is a large convention hotel, part of a national chain or a small inn, we can help you incorporate energy-saving solutions customized for your specific business needs. And we’ll help you pay for it!

Rebates and Incentives

With our suite of Smart $aver® Business rebates and incentives, you can get cash back for upgrading to energy-efficient equipment, which will lower your energy bills while subsidizing the cost of upgrades. We have a wide range of offers, so you can tailor your energy efficiency improvements to fit both your business and your budget. This table incorporates popular energy efficiency measures for lodging businesses and their relative effect to overall operational efficiency.

  • Good

    These changes are easily accomplished.

  • Better

    These are more involved upgrades that are even better for your facility and your budget.

  • Best

    These are the best ways to help you save energy and make your facility more profitable.

HVAC

Lighting

Envelope

Water Heating

Good 

  • Improved central direct-expansion cooling efficiency

  • Interior LED lighting in lieu of fluorescent in common areas

  • Exterior LED lighting in lieu of HID

Code minimum:

  • Wall insulation

  • Roof insulation

  • Window glazing

Use low-flow:

  • Shower heads

  • Faucet aerators

Better
Good +

  • High-efficiency guest room HVAC equipment (PTACs, PTHPs)

  • Electrically commutated motors

  • LED lighting fixtures in guest rooms

  • Occupancy sensors in non-required areas

Improved:

  • Wall insulation

  • Roof insulation

  • Heat Pump Water Heaters

Best
Better +

  • An EMS linked with reservation and automated check-out systems to keep unsold rooms ventilated with minimal heating & cooling

  • CO2 control of meeting rooms and other areas with variable occupancy

  • Implement lower-density lighting design

  • Daylight harvesting in meeting rooms and other areas with variable occupancy

  • Install white/cool roof

Use maximum:

  • Wall insulation

  • Roof insulation

  • Window glazing (low E, tinting)

  • Heat recovery systems


Average results for Lodging customer** Good  Better  Best 
Projected Annual Electric Savings $20,000+ $21,000+  $24,000+ 
Duke Energy Incentives and Rebates
 $21,000+  $22,000+  $25,000+ 
Example: 51,000 square foot hotel located in North Carolina
 

Supporting Programs

We have three ways you can approach getting cash back for your energy efficiency upgrades: Performance, Prescriptive and Custom.

  • Performance‌

    Have an innovative or energy-saving concept that is difficult to calculate or predict savings? We can offer incentives based on actual measured “performance”.

  • Prescriptive‌

    Get cash back for the purchase and installation of common energy efficiency improvements such as Lighting, HVAC, Chillers, VFDs and Process Equipment.

  • Custom‌

    Considering an upgrade that doesn't quite fit into any of the Prescriptive categories? You can still apply for our Custom Incentive program.