Ameren Illinois Funding

Take up to 80% off your Energy Saving Project

Want to save energy?
Need to reduce carbon emissions?
Turn therms into $avings with Heat Recovery

The Ameren Illinois Energy Efficiency Program is offering cash incentives, based on energy reduction, for a variety of electric and gas efficiency projects, including waste heat recovery for fuel-fired boilers and Combined Heat & Power (CHP).

A waste heat recovery project for your steam or hot water system improves the efficiency of your site, reduces fuel bills, and minimizes CO₂ emissions, all by recapturing wasted energy and using it elsewhere.

Enter your details below to discover how Thermal Energy can help you access Ameren Illinois funding

If you’ve already identified that your organization would benefit from installing heat recovery technology, or think it could, right now you can receive up to $1.00/therm saved/year, for up to 80% funding towards the project cost with minimal effort from you
Applications are due within 30 days of project completion or by December 31, 2020

Ameren Illinois Energy Efficiency Program funding in 3 simple steps:

Verify you are eligible

Funding is available for non-residential facilities with the following gas delivery service rates:
GDS2, GDS3, GDS4, GDS5, or GDS7 and Energy Efficiency Programs Charge on Ameren Illinois gas bill
Funding is open to industrial manufacturers across all sectors including:

Food & beverages
Textiles & clothing
Wood & paper

Chemical
Petrochemical
Pharmaceutical

Scope out your project with TEI

We carry out preliminary engineering and a feasibility study as part of our own initial project analysis
In assessing a project’s viability, we help you establish energy savings, payback, technical concept and timeline to help support your business case
This incorporates all the information required for the pre-approval application

Let us to guide you through the application

Reduce the level of time and resources required to complete an application
Our engineers help you understand the full application and its requirements
We will work with you and the program representative to demonstrate how the project will impact your savings/incentive, complete the necessary steps required to request incentive changes, and support any post installation verification inspection by the program representative
Using the project data we collected, we will support completion of the Incentive Payment Request Form
Giving you and your project the best possible chance of receiving funding and improving ROI

Benefit Overview

Save time and money throughout the application process, and gain valuable insight
Ensure all the data submitted is correct
Facilitate the approval process with information supplied in the format required
No additional internal investment required to gain up to 80% funding

How does Thermal Energy help?

Eligibility criteria & funding application
Cost & benefit analysis
Technical concept & delivery plan
Measurement & verification plans
Energy calculation
Turn-key installation
Order processing & project management
Commissioning & ongoing optimisation

More about the Ameren Illinois Energy Efficiency Program

Ameren Illinois is a regulated electric and gas delivery company headquartered in Collinsville, Illinois that delivers energy to 1.2 million electric and 813,000 natural gas customers in downstate Illinois. The Ameren Illinois service area covers more than 1,200 communities and 43,700 square miles
The Ameren Illinois Energy Efficiency Program is a service of Ameren Illinois that provides energy saving resources and incentive programs that help businesses realize cost-savings, reduce energy usage, and provide a trusted program ally to perform energy-efficiency upgrades
To date, thousands of Ameren Illinois customers have reduced energy costs by over $525 million with projects through the Ameren Illinois award-winning Energy Efficiency Program