Building Electrification

What is Building Electrification?

Building electrification means switching energy sources from traditional fossil fuels (like natural gas, oil, or propane) to electricity. This means using electric-powered appliances and systems for heating, cooling, cooking, and other energy-intensive applications.

Choosing all-electric appliances has many benefits including healthier indoor air quality, increased resistance to future wildfires and smoke damage, fewer maintenance concerns, reduced energy costs, and fewer greenhouse gas emissions. PACE has many programs and financial incentives to help you take the next step on your electrification journey – visit our Energy page for more information.

Why is Building Electrification Important?

  • Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Electrification reduces carbon emissions, especially in regions where the electricity grid is increasingly powered by renewable energy sources (like Colorado!).
  • Energy Efficiency: Electric appliances and systems, such as heat pumps, are often more energy-efficient than their combustion-based counterparts, leading to lower energy consumption and operating costs over time.
  • Improved Indoor Air Quality: Electrification eliminates the combustion-related indoor air pollution associated with natural gas appliances, contributing to better indoor air quality and the overall health of building occupants.
  • Grid Flexibility: Building electrification allows for increased flexibility in managing electricity demand. With smart technologies, buildings can be integrated into demand response programs, helping balance the electricity grid and reduce peak demand.

How can PACE help my Business Electrify?

PACE provides a rebate for electric infrastructure upgrades and offers two rebate options for building owners to support your plan for electrification.

  • Engineering Design: Provides funding to support the engineering necessary to implement electrification projects within the next 12 months. Eligible costs include load calculations, equipment specification, electrical load capacity analysis, commissioning, and more.
  • Feasibility Plan: Provides funding to support engineering plans for electrifying complex building systems to help owners with capital planning. These engineering plans are most appropriate for planning projects in the next one to five years.
  • Electric Infrastructure Upgrade: Provides funding for electrical infrastructure work to support electrification of building systems.

For more information, including rebate requirements, visit our Energy Efficiency and Electrification Rebates page.

Want to learn more? Reach out to us at 303-786-7223 or info@PACEpartners.com.