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Comprehensive Building Tune-Up: Eligibility and Participation
PSE’s Comprehensive Building Tune-Up program is designed to result in persistent, cost-effective, energy-saving changes in building systems and operations. To achieve this, both the building and the owner must meet certain eligibility criteria.
The building must meet the following criteria:
- Served by PSE electricity and/or gas
- At least three years old
- At least 50,000 square feet
- At least 75 percent occupied
- Mechanical equipment and control systems in relatively good condition
- An estimate of annual energy use can be established as a baseline
- Reasonable expectation of achieving energy savings through operational improvements
The owner must commit to the following:
- Up to 50 hours of senior building operations staff time to participate in the investigation and training
- Implementation of improvements that have a payback of less than 2 years, with a limit to the total cost to the owner
- Implementation of improvements within the first year after the investigation
How to participate
- Review the information on eligibility, process and incentives
- Complete a PSE application and include the signature of the building owner
- PSE will review the application and contact you for an initial screening to help determine if your building is a good candidate for the program
- Owner selects a professional individual commissioning provider from PSE’s list of approved commissioning providers and requests a proposal from the provider
- PSE and owner sign a grant agreement for commissioning incentives
- Professional commissioning provider will complete the scoping phase
- PSE and commissioning provider will determine if building will benefit from the Comprehensive Building Tune-Up program
- Commissioning provider will proceed to conduct investigation and recommend low-cost/no-cost operational improvements
- PSE pays 50 percent of incentive for the commissioning provider costs.
- Owner implements recommended improvements with less than a 2-year payback, up to agreed cost limit
- Commissioning provider verifies recommendations are completed
- Commissioning provider prepares a systems manual and training for O&M staff
- Owner’s operations and maintenance staff attends training
- PSE pays remaining 50 percent of incentive for the commissioning provider costs
- If customer documents continued efficient operation for one year and the actual savings are a predetermined amount, PSE pays a performance bonus incentive for the commissioning provider costs