Custom Efficiency Success Stories

Lighting upgrades made possible by Idaho Power’s Custom Efficiency program help the owner of three Atkinsons’ Markets in the Wood River Valley use less energy overall while reducing the amount of heat over the fresh fruits and vegetables.

A downtown Boise landmark, Jefferson Place office plaza underwent a series of lighting upgrades that will generate more than $13,000 in annual savings for the building’s owners. An incentive from Idaho Power made the project possible for this 1913 vintage building.

Motive Power, a locomotive manufacturing and refurbishing company in Boise, Idaho upgraded their lighting in 10 buildings encompassing 268,838 square feet. This ambitious project will save the company approximately $60,000 per year in energy costs. With the help of an Idaho Power incentive, this retrofit has a mere six month payback period.

Key Financial Center managed to replace more than 1,600 inefficient light fixtures while minimizing the installation impact to five of their tenants. The result? Annual lighting savings of $27,000 and an additional $2,276 in HVAC costs.

New efficient lighting, motion sensors, and improvements to ventilation fans helped Murakami Produce, in Malheur County, reduce their electric bills by approximately $100,000 per year. Learn how incentives from Idaho Power helped to make these improvements a reality.

Based in the Netherlands, with U.S. headquarters in Parma, Idaho, Nunhems is the largest commercial vegetable seed producer in the world. Learn how energy efficient upgrades is saving this international company over $43,000 in annual energy costs.

Learn how Roaring Springs, the largest water park in the Northwest, cut their annual electricity use by 30 percent and their electricity bill by $65,000!

Learn how Magic Valley Growers reduced energy costs after retrofitting lighting and refrigeration systems with the help of a $26,366 incentive.

Something as simple as replacing seven rigid doors with flexible doors is helping a Nampa business save 88,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity per year.

As a result of lighting upgrades, Sysco, North America’s largest food distributor, realized an average annual savings of 35 percent on the amount of electricity they consume each year when they put the sun to work for them.

Learn how referrals lead one restaurant owner to install over 575 energy efficient lights with 70 percent of the costs paid for by Idaho Power. The investment should pay for itself in about a year.

Installing a high-efficiency dishwasher and solar hot water pre-heater has resulted in a $250 per month electric bill savings for this family-style restaurant in Blackfoot, Idaho.

Energy efficient upgrades at a 590,000-square-foot office complex in Boise, managed by ARM (American Resurgens Management Corporation), earned the corporation an Idaho Power incentive valued at approximately $700,000.

Now that 122 light fixtures have been upgraded, this Twin Falls bottler has cut its power bill in half and earned a $24,825 incentive from Idaho Power.

A $6,936 incentive from Idaho Power helped the Jerome Cheese Company save more than 280,000 kWh per year, the average energy use of 21 typical Idaho homes.

Project will save company about $90,000 annually on their power bill. Without Idaho Power's incentive program, return on investment would have been more difficult.

Tea packing plant in Boise sees monthly electrical usage reduced 25 to 30 percent; saving money and following the company's core value to continually be energy efficient and a good environmental steward.

More than 2,270,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity is being saved annually, enough to power 172 typical Idaho homes for a year. These energy efficiency upgrades earned the City of Nampa a $228,000 incentive from Idaho Power.

Energy efficiency upgrades have helped improve the learning environment and is saving taxpayers money.

Downtown Boise's largest developer is saving $300 to $600 per month in energy costs after upgrading lighting in a downtown parking garage.

By upgrading 11 air-handling units, ON Semiconductor is saving more than one million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year.

Improvements to the plant's water supply pumping system will save the company an estimated 250,000 kilowatt-hours per year and reduce carbon emissions by 105 MT (metric ton) of carbon dioxide per year.

The largest office building in downtown Boise looks better, has happier tenants and lower operating costs thanks in part to our Custom Efficiency for Complex Projects program.

McCain Foods USA Compressed Air System Retrofit Saves Energy
Retrofitting this potato processing company's compressed air system, along with other equipment upgrades, is saving more than 1,700,000 kilowatt hours of energy annually.