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Strategic Energy Management

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Learn How to Save

Strategic Energy Management (SEM) is the key to unlocking lower energy costs and moving your company closer to meeting its sustainability goals.

Through SEM, your organization will use energy management techniques and tools that help large facilities evaluate their energy use. Improving energy efficiency saves energy now and over time, and along with qualifying incentives, reduces energy costs that can be reinvested into your company.


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Program Benefits:

  • Fully-funded training and engineering support, including:
    • Workshops
    • Monthly coaching sessions
    • Four cohort sessions
    • Two on-site visits
  • Provides technical and educational energy modeling tools to track performance, manage, and forecast energy usage
  • Technical support to identify significant energy users and perform energy analysis and modeling to develop site-level and end-use energy performance indicators.
  • “Treasure hunt” to find energy-saving opportunities to optimize system performance through control improvements, maintenance and/or repairs
  • Two $1,000 Milestone payments for achieving key program deliverables
  • Incentives based on your verified annual electric energy savings. Incentives up to $0.02/kWh

Examples of rebate-eligible opportunities include but are not limited to:

  • Optimizing systems, controls and processes
  • Scheduling or shutting off idle equipment
  • Cleaning, maintaining or removing unused equipment
  • Reducing energy waste
  • Energy-efficiency contests

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Energy Management Tools

Energy Management Tools allow you to manage, track and optimize your company’s energy use.

Emergency Demand Response

Reduce energy use during high demand periods and get paid.

Custom Incentives

Our Custom Incentives make it easy to improve your bottom line and save energy with a range of energy-saving projects.

Strategic Energy Management

Our program provides training, motivation and engineering support to move your company culture toward sustainability.

Small Business Direct Install (SBDI)

Small business owners can get rebates for energy-saving upgrades.

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Midstream—Distributors & Contractors

Delivering incentives directly through distributors. It helps customers upgrade to energy-efficient HVAC and water heating equipment at a more affordable price.

Multi-family

We offer energy-saving solutions for multi-family property owners to reduce operating cost, improve comfort, and add value to their communities. (Michigan Only)

Prescriptive Rebates

I&M offers a variety of predetermined cash rebates to help cover the cost of energy-saving commercial projects.