CleanBC Commercial Express Program

The CleanBC Commercial Express Program provides support to building owners and operators who wish to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in their existing commercial buildings. The program facilitates simpler, smaller electrification opportunities across the commercial and institutional building sector.

Deadline not available

Range between $1 - $125,000

Grant

Clean Energy, Clean Tech, Educational Services, Environmental Sustainability

For Profit

This grant is restricted to whole of Canada

building, commercial, technologies, Clean Energy, reduce greenhouse

This grant is age restricted from 18 to 100

Your building must be a Commercial Building as defined by Part 3 of the BC Building Code and one of the following building types:

You must be a BC Hydro Commercial customer on either the Small General Service (SGS), Medium General Service (MGS) or Large General Service (LGS) rate.
The building must be in the BC Hydro service territory, including New Westminster.
To qualify as an electrification measure, your project must:

Provide a net decrease in greenhouse gas emissions;
Result in energy impacts that are measurable and verifiable;
Result in energy impacts that can be estimated using standard engineering calculations;
Involve a technology that is not covered by other utility demand side management programs (e.g. FortisBC’s Commercial Performance Program);
Involve a technology that provides net electrical load growth;
Involve a technology that is accessible/viewable for site inspection and/or measurement and verification if required; and
Be hardwired or permanent in nature.

Depending on the building archetype, eligible equipment can include the following:

Packaged rooftop unit equipped with an air source heat pump with gas or electric resistance for supplemental heating;
Can include either integrated heat recovery or a dedicated heat/energy recovery ventilator (HRV/ERV)
Centralized high efficiency HRV/ERV fully decoupled from heating and cooling; decentralized air source variable refrigerant flow (VRF) heat pump;
Distributed Mini-split or VRF heat pump for heating and cooling;
In-suite packaged heat pump and in-suite HRV providing heating, cooling and ventilation;
Air-to-water heat pump water heater;
Wastewater heat recovery heat pump water heater;
Electric Induction Food Preparation Equipment.

See the Participant’s Guide for a full list of eligible equipment.
Equipment cannot be purchased before the application is submitted and a notice of approval is received.