NY Rebate Program

NYSEG (Electric) - Commercial and Industrial Efficiency Program

Administered by Franklin Energy

AI summary · 7/12/2026

If your business or institution receives NYSEG or RG&E electric service and pays the Systems Benefits Charge, you can receive rebates for upgrading to efficient equipment like lighting, HVAC, chillers, heat pumps, motors, and commercial refrigeration. Choose your own contractor and apply for either preset rebate amounts or custom incentives for engineered solutions—both cover retrofits, additions, and new construction.

NYSEG and RG&E customers across commercial, industrial, nonprofit, government, institutional, and agricultural sectors are eligible for rebates on a wide range of technologies; you can support customers in securing either prescriptive rebates from a catalog or custom incentives when projects require site-specific engineering analysis. The program accepts any licensed contractor, giving your customers flexibility in vendor selection.

This prescriptive and custom rebate program targets non-residential electricity customers in NYSEG and RG&E service territories who pay the Systems Benefits Charge; funding flows through rebate catalogs for standard measures and engineered custom incentives for unique efficiency improvements. Eligible sectors span commercial, industrial, government entities, nonprofits, agricultural, and institutional facilities installing equipment across HVAC, lighting, food service, refrigeration, motors, controls, and combined heat and power systems.

Program details

Program ID
4244
Last updated
7/15/2024

Eligibility

Sectors
commercial industrial local government nonprofit state government federal government tribal government agricultural institutional
Technologies
dishwasher water heaters lighting lighting controls/sensors chillers heat pumps air conditioners combined heat & power heat recovery energy mgmt. systems/building controls motors motor vfds agricultural equipment custom/others pending approval food service equipment commercial cooking equipment commercial refrigeration equipment hvac

Program summary

NYSEG and RG&E offer rebates to non-residential customers installing energy efficient equipment that have an electricity Systems Benefits Charge (SBC) included in their energy bills. Both prescriptive rebates and custom incentives are available, and can be applied to retrofits, add-ons, major renovations and new construction. The rebate catalog can be found here.

Custom incentives are available when energy efficiency improvements require site-specific engineering and cost analysis. Any nonresidential NYSEG or RG&E electricity customer is eligible, and customers can select their own contractor to install equipment. See program site for further details on both custom and prescriptive rebates.

Contact & resources

Please verify current program details with the administering agency before making any financial decisions.

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