Canonical program record
Nicor Gas Commercial Energy Assessment
Nicor provides a no-cost on-site assessment and a customized report identifying gas-efficiency opportunities, costs, and available incentives.
What this mechanism does
- Mechanism type
- Free assessment
- Economic effect
- Get free expertise
- Administrator
- Nicor Gas Energy Efficiency Program
- Amount or value
- No-cost assessment; the customized report is generally delivered about four weeks after the site visit.
- Cash-flow timing
- Expertise is delivered before a separate project decision; any later incentive has its own approval and funding rules.
- Upfront cash
- Not required by the mechanism description
- Repayment
- Not a repayable mechanism
- Program lifecycle
- Current / rolling
- Visitor treatment
- Worth checking now
This current pathway still requires program-specific eligibility and sequence checks.
Important dates and consequences
No separate material date is recorded for this edition. Current status still requires the verification dates shown in this record.
Project fit and limits
Eligibility conditions to confirm
- The facility must be an eligible current commercial Nicor Gas customer.
- The standard commercial assessment generally serves facilities using less than 150,000 therms per year.
- An authorized building representative must be present and provide access.
Eligible costs described by the authority
- No assessment fee; the service reviews facility energy use and identifies possible improvements
Ineligible or excluded costs
- Implementation costs are not paid merely because the assessment is free
- Self-directed and otherwise excluded accounts
Friction to plan for
- Schedule by phone and provide a knowledgeable on-site representative for a two-to-four-hour visit.
- Recommendations do not guarantee an incentive or savings amount.