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Commercial Ductless Heat Pump Programs

Commercial Ductless Heat Pump (DHP) Program

Help reduce electric costs for smaller commercial buildings while providing air conditioning. To qualify the building to be conditioned by the DHP must have the following characteristics:

  • The area conditioned by the DHP must be currently heated by either zonal or forced air electric resistance heat.
  • The installed DHP must have an AHRI certificate and have an HSPF2 minimum rating of 10.4 for non-ducted units and a 9.4 HSPF2 rating for ducted units..

The incentive is $1,000 per ton of installed outdoor unit cooling capacity for each DHP installed.

Trained Ductless Heat Pump contractors must install the systems.

 

Commercial Heat Pump Retrofit & Upgrade

An Air Source Heat Pump Retrofit replaces an existing electric-resistance heating system with an efficient electric air source heat pump (e.g., adds an electric air source heat pump to a system where one did not previously exist).

An Air Source Heat Pump Upgrade either: 1) replaces an existing electric air source heat pump with a more efficient electric air source heat pump (e.g., replacing a code minimum heat pump that meets BPA heat pump efficiency requirements); or 2) is an efficient electric air source heat pump installed as part of a building addition project, new construction project or major renovation project.

  • Preconditions – Heat Pump Retrofit:

The space is conditioned by zonal or forced-air, electric-resistance heat as the primary heating source.  No other heating source are eligible.

  • Preconditions – Heat Pump Upgrade:

The space is conditioned by an operational or failed air source heat pump; or

The space is part of a building addition, new construction, or a major renovation project.

  • Post-conditions:

The installed heat pump must:

  • Be an air-to-air heat pump
  • Have an AHRI certificate of product rating, and
  • Meet BPA’s efficiency requirements for both heating and cooling

 

The incentives are:

  • $1,000 per ton for a Heat Pump Retrofit
  • $150 per ton for a Heat Pump Upgrade