New Jersey's Energy Efficiency Programs
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For Industrial, Commercial, and Residential Users:
Utility Energy Efficiency Programs
Under the Clean Energy Act of 2018, electric utilities are required to achieve a 2% annual usage reduction, and gas utilities are required to achieve a 0.75% annual usage reduction. To achieve these targets, all seven regulated utilities offer efficiency programs to their customers. They are required to offer certain core programs to customers in the residential, multifamily, commercial, and industrial sectors, including government buildings. Find your utility’s programs below:
Electric:
Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G) Residential
Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G) Commercial
Atlantic City Electric (ACE) Residential
Atlantic City Electric (ACE) Commercial
Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L)
Rockland Electric
Gas:
Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G) Residential
Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G) Commercial
New Jersey Natural Gas (NJNG)
South Jersey Gas (SJG)
Elizabethtown Gas (ETG) Residential
Elizabethtown Gas (ETG) Commercial

For Low-Income Residents:
Comfort Partners
Comfort Partners helps income-eligible customers reduce their utility bills and improve their home’s safety and comfort, at no cost to them. Households with incomes below 250% of the federal poverty level, and some additional households, are eligible depending on their energy usage. Energy efficiency measures are determined on a home-specific basis and may include air sealing, insulation, duct work, and/or appliance maintenance and replacements.
Households must be customers of a regulated gas or electric utility and be in a building with no more than 14 metered units.
Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP)
WAP is a federally funded program available to households with income below 200% of the federal poverty level, with a variety of prioritization factors. Direct weatherization services are provided through a network of public and non-profit agencies serving all 67 counties. Weatherization services primarily involve diagnostic assessment of air leakage, health and safety repairs, electric baseload measures and client energy education.
WAP is administered by the Department of Community Affairs through designated community-based agencies.

For Commercial and Industrial:
Benchmarking
New Jersey requires commercial buildings over 25,000 square feet to report energy and water benchmarking to the state, through free use of EPA’s Portfolio Manager. It also offers a free, voluntary benchmarking service to building owners that are not required to comply with the law.
Local Government Energy Audit
The Local Government Energy Audit Program allows local government agencies, state contracting agencies, public agencies, state colleges and state universities, and select non-profits to examine their facilities and see how they can improve their energy use. The program subsidizes up to 100% the cost of the audit. Eligible entities must complete an application and workbook and submit utility bills to apply.
Large Energy Users Program
The Large Energy Users Program is intended to spur energy savings from the state’s largest non-hospital commercial and industrial facilities. It provides incentives per kWh and therm saved for entities that paid a minimum of $5 million in utility bills the previous fiscal year.
NJ Clean Energy Loans (NJ CELs)
NJ CELs is a low-interest loan program for small to medium businesses seeking to finance clean energy projects. NJEDA will lend between $250,000 and $10 million for projects seeking total loan amounts between $500,000 and $20 million. Eligible projects include clean energy infrastructure, improvements at a facility, and creation or expansion of a business that manufactures clean energy products or offers clean energy services.
NJ Cool
NJ Cool is a pilot program to incentivize commercial building owners and tenants in Newark, Edison, and Atlantic City to reduce operating greenhouse gas emissions from existing buildings. NJEDA will award grants ranging from $50,000 to $1 million for projects that upgrade heating and cooling systems and implement energy efficiency measures or on-site renewables. Applications are now open.
Coming Soon: Garden State C-PACE
Garden State C-PACE will enable eligible commercial, industrial, agricultural, and certain multi-family residential property owners to access private financing for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and resiliency improvements, and then repay the loan through an assessment to their municipality. C-PACE assessments are senior liens that transfer when a property is sold. Because of their lower risk and tie to the property, capital providers can provide lower rates, and terms are tied to the life of the improvement.
C-PACE was enacted through legislation in 2021 and is awaiting final guidance from the NJ Economic Development Authority.

For New Construction:
New Construction Program
For commercial and industrial new construction, BPU offers 3 incentive programs:
1) The Pay for Performance Program incentivizes whole building performance for new buildings over 50,000 square feet that perform at least 5% better than code requirements (15% for multifamily buildings).
2) The Customer Tailored Energy Efficiency Pilot (CTEEP) Program allows customers to bundle multiple prescriptive and custom measures from the SmartStart program.
3) The SmartStart New Construction Buildings Program provides prescriptive and custom rebates for specified energy efficiency measures in new buildings.
For residential new construction, BPU offers incentives for home builders to achieve ENERGY STAR-certified or Zero Energy Ready Home certifications, for both single- and multi-family homes.
The commercial and residential programs are expected to be streamlined into a single program later in 2024.