Install an efficient boiler and earn a cash rebate of up to 75% of the purchase price premium.
Conserving energy is not only good for the environment; it can also be good for your bottom line when you use high efficiency, natural gas hydronic space heating systems.
Program overview
If you're a commercial building owner, developer, consulting engineer or contractor, we can help you select an efficient boiler configuration for your project. What's more, we can help you with financial incentives for installing or upgrading to condensing or near-condensing boilers for new construction and replacement projects.
Incentives
For all participants, the purchase price incentive applies to the incremental purchase price of a natural gas near-condensing or condensing boiler over the purchase price of a standard efficiency boiler.
Purchase price incentives are based on space heating and ventilating load. They will be calculated as follows:
- near-condensing boilers: $4,000 per boiler plus $3 per MBH plant input
- condensing boilers: $6,000 per boiler plus $9 per MBH plant input
The purchase price of a standard-efficiency boiler will be estimated using $7 per MBH of the input required to meet the space heating load and ventilating load. For more information, contact us at 1-866-884-8833.
Additional incentives
In new construction
We will contribute 50% of a consultant's fees to a maximum of $1,500 toward the cost of analyzing the annual gas usage for space heating using a standard efficiency boiler system versus a higher efficiency boiler system. Purchase price incentive payments are limited to a maximum of 75% of the purchase price premium over a standard efficiency boiler.
In the replacement market
In building retrofit projects, the program will pay your contractor up to a maximum of $400 for performing an estimate of the annual weather-normalized peak space heating load. The program will pay 50%of the cost of the necessary venting modifications up to a maximum of $2,000. The program will also pay a monitoring incentive of $1,500 during the first year of operation plus $1 per gigajoule of total energy saved. Purchase price incentive payments are limited to a maximum of 50% of the purchase price premium over a standard efficiency boiler.
Benefits
Ongoing savings of up to 40%
- operating savings from lower energy expenditures
- up to 40% lower energy costs over a standard efficiency boiler
Higher performance
- improved operating efficiency through correct boiler sizing
Space efficiency and comfort
- requirement for less space in mechanical rooms
- opportunity to increase occupant comfort, and reduce building maintenance and operating costs
Increased marketability
- improved efficiency appeals to buyers who recognize the value it adds to their investment
- increased value of your development
- competitive advantage over other projects
Environmental benefits
- fewer greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere
- responsible use of a cleaner burning fuel
Call us
Call toll-free at 1-866-884-8833 for more information. Representatives from FortisBC can provide expert advice to help you save energy and money.
LiveSmart BC: Small Business Program
We’ve joined forces with LiveSmart BC to provide small businesses additional incentives when upgrading to qualified high-efficiency boilers and water heaters. If your application to the FortisBC Efficient Boiler Program is approved, LiveSmart BC can match the incentive up to a maximum of $1,495.
If you are eligible, you can apply for the additional incentives available through the LiveSmart BC: Small Business Program.
How to apply
- Complete and sign the LiveSmart BC: Small Business Program waiver form.
- Complete FortisBC's Efficient Boiler Program application form.
New construction. Replacement market.
- Submit the waiver, your FortisBC application and all supporting documents via mail, fax or email to:
FortisBC Energy Inc.,
Energy Efficiency and Conservation – Commercial Programs
16705 Fraser Highway
Surrey, BC, V4N 0E8
Fax: 604-592-7618
