The Take Control & Save business programs help member business owners discover and eliminate energy inefficiencies in their operations through an energy audit of their facility. Your electric cooperative may offer rebates or incentives to qualifying business owners for commercial or industrial lighting, energy audits or energy efficient equipment. Tax incentives, grants and special interest loans may also be available through state and federal programs.

Before you can effectively save energy, you have to learn how you are using it now. By having a professional examine your facility and energy use through an energy audit, you can get recommendations and learn the best measures to help your business achieve the quickest return on your investment. Talk with your electric cooperative, which may offer incentives to partially or fully fund an audit of your business. Find your cooperative.

You may be surprised to learn that lighting can take a larger share of a building’s electricity use than any other single end use. But significant cost savings can be achieved with energy-efficiency improvements, and lighting usually provides the highest return-on-investment of major upgrades. With the Take Control & Save business lighting program, your cooperative may offer rebates up to 40 percent of your total lighting upgrade. Learn more.