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• Most Common Improvement Area: Rebate dollar amount
• Most Common Strength: Representative courtesy

Exciting Updates for 2025: Enhanced Rebates and New Measures

Steam Trap Testing and Replacements

Space heating and/or non-year-round steam traps are eligible for testing rebates every 12 months for all North Shore Gas and multi-family customers. Peoples Gas business customers are eligible for steam trap testing and replacement rebates once every 24 months for process and dry-cleaning traps, and once every 36 months for space heating traps. Please note that these changes won’t affect public sector or multi-family customers.

Incentive Cap for Multi-Family Program Steam Trap Testing
$10,000

New Measure for Multi-Family Program

Qualifying space heating float and thermostatic or inverted bucket steam traps are eligible for a $500 incentive per trap.

Steam Boilers

The efficiency requirements have been adjusted to 82% in alignment with federal standards.

Boiler Tune-Ups

• The cap on space heating boiler tune-ups has increased to $2,000/boiler or 100% of project cost.
• The cap on process boiler tune-ups has increased to $3,000/boiler or 100% of project cost.

O2 Trim

• Oxygen trim controls limit the amount of excess oxygen provided to the burner for combustion.
• Convert parallel positioning into a close-loop control configuration with the addition of an exhaust gas analyzer and PID controller. Burner must have linkageless controls.

Domestic Hot Water Controller

For the Partner Trade Ally (PTA) program, the minimum incentive is $2,200, and the maximum incentive is $3,000.

Destratification Fans

Fans must be 14 feet in diameter or greater, and the ceiling must be more than 20 feet. High Volume, Low Speed (HVLS) fans with variable speed drive installed

Incentives Increases for 2025

Custom and New Construction Rebates

• $1.00/therm saved for projects that save less than 7,500 therms
• $1.50/therm saved for project that save more than 7,500 therms

Gas Optimization Program

• Increased to $20,000 per study to be paid to study providers
• Additional study provider bonus for getting studies completed in a timely manner
• Additional customer bonuses for completing projects

Join Us for this Upcoming Webinar

Burner Optimization Webinar
March 26, 2025
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Join guest speaker Tony Ranallo of Boilersource to learn all about burner optimization and how to increase overall boiler room efficiency.

Are You Hiring in 2025?

Our Market Development Initiative (MDI) has a pipeline of over 100 qualified candidates.

Candidates have skills including:

• HVAC
• Plumbing
• General construction and installation
• Warehouse
• Customer service
• Sales

If you haven’t already signed up as an employer and posted your jobs, you are missing out on the opportunity to connect with these qualified candidates. Learn more at the MDI website.

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• Trade Ally Tool, which is available to your customers on People’s Gas and North Shore Gas sites
• Comprehensive FAQ page
• Cutting-edge innovation page, now featuring gas heat pump information
• And so much more!

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Cristina Lopez, Residential (HVAC/Water Heating)

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