Receive an energy grant to optimizing your energy usage in your Telecommunications Facilities.

If your business site is a medium or large telecommunications facility; PSE's Telecommunications Efficiency Program (TEP) can help you find and perform energy efficiency improvements that lower your bills. You can also earn a valuable incentive to help cover the cost.

What you get

If you qualify for PSE's Telecommunications Efficiency Program (TEP), you may receive some or all of the following:

• Hands-on guidance throughout the process from PSE's TEP Team.
• An action plan report, which includes:
  • Recommended capital energy project opportunities, should you decide to invest more heavily in energy efficiency upgrades for your business site in the future.
  • Information about your business site's energy usage, including overall percentages by equipment category (lighting, HVAC, etc.).

Implementation incentive If you complete the requirements, the value of the implementation incentive is:

Capital projects

$0.40 per verified kWh saved

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Low cost no cost project

$0.05 per verified kWH saved

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How you qualify

To be eligible for PSE's Telecommunications Efficiency Program (TEP):

• Your business site must be within PSE's electric service area and use electricity from PSE.
• Your business site must be considered Telecommunications which often means either the majority of its electric load is associated with Cellular, fiber optics, Internet services.
• Sites whose principal use is office or retail are almost always not eligible for this program.

For help verifying your qualifications, send an email to allen.ma@pse.com.

How you apply

To apply fill out a Custom grants application sheet.

Additional information

Implementation incentive requirements:

• You must provide PSE's TEP team with conditional site data concerning variables that may cause energy usage fluctuation at your business site (e.g., labor hours, outage data, etc.)
• You must submit an action item completion report containing documentation for all incentive-eligible costs, including but not limited to: Materials/equipment invoices Internal labor costs Contracted labor costs