takeCHARGE Business Efficiency Program — Custom Solutions
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Eligibility & Details
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Program Description
A custom energy-efficiency incentive for commercial electricity customers in Newfoundland and Labrador. takeCHARGE pays $0.10 per kWh of first-year energy savings, plus a limited-time bonus of $500 per kW of peak demand reduced, up to a maximum rebate of $100,000. Projects are tailored to the facility and can cover heating and cooling, refrigeration, lighting, controls and other electricity-saving measures. A high-level energy assessment by a takeCHARGE energy expert is fully funded.
Eligibility Requirements
- Must be a commercial electricity customer of Newfoundland Power or Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro
- Project must reduce electricity consumption through tailored, verifiable energy-efficiency measures
- A takeCHARGE energy assessment of the facility must be completed first — this high-level assessment is fully funded by takeCHARGE
- The project proposal must be approved and a Project Development Agreement signed before the upgrade starts
- Final incentives are paid after measurement and verification; if energy savings are less than 85% of the estimate in the project proposal, the incentive is reduced
- The project must stay in service and deliver energy savings for a minimum of five years
- Audit and feasibility-study funding must be pre-approved by takeCHARGE before the study is commissioned
- Hydro commercial customers on isolated systems are served by the separate Isolated System Business Efficiency Program
Quick Assessment
Funding Details
- Amount
- $0.10 per kWh of first-year energy savings, plus a limited-time bonus of $500 per kW of peak demand reduced; maximum rebate $100,000
- Type
- Grant
- Level
- Provincial
- Deadline
- Ongoing intake; the $500/kW peak-demand bonus is available until December 31, 2026
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Insider TipThe $500/kW peak-demand bonus is a limited-time adder that ends December 31, 2026, with measures in service by December 31, 2027 — time the project to capture it.
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