What is Focus on Energy?
Focus on Energy is a partnership of organizations that strive to help Wisconsin residents and businesses save money by saving energy. The goals of this program are to encourage energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy, enhance the environment, and ensure the future supply of energy for Wisconsin.
Who qualifies?
Focus on Energy services are available to 85 percent of the homes and businesses in Wisconsin. The remaining 15 percent are customers of certain municipal or cooperative utilities that have chosen not to participate in Focus on Energy. To determine if you are eligible, use the eligibility tool on the previous page.
What services and resources are available?
Reducing your operating costs could be as simple as updating the lighting in the barn with more efficient fixtures and bulbs. You might upgrade to a variable-speed drive on your vacuum pump. Whatever the solution, Focus on Energy understands the needs and concerns of our state's farmers and has programs in place to help you increase profits, reduce energy use and improve productivity. Through these programs, you can:
- Get a free energy survey to find your farm's energy wasters and learn what you can do to fix them.
- Buy down the cost of making energy efficiency improvements with grants and financial incentives. Some examples might be variable speed vacuum pump controls or precoolers for dairy farms, re-nozzling and pump modifications for irrigations systems, and new high efficiency dryers or automated control systems for grain drying.
- Put new agricultural technologies to work for you with suggestions and advice from energy advisors.
- Learn how a renewable energy system, such as an anaerobic digester or wind turbine, could make your farm more energy self-sufficient. There are grants of up to $10,000 available for feasibility studies, implementation grants up to $90,000, and other financial incentives and scholarships to help with the maintenance and installation of qualified renewable energy technologies. Examples include wind machines, solar panels, or an anaerobic digester to manage cow manure.
There are also Focus on Energy programs for your home, which include Cash-Back Rewards for the installation of qualified high efficiency heating and cooling equipment, ENERGY STAR qualified lighting and appliances, and measures that increase the energy efficiency of existing homes.
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