Multifamily Housing
Investing in energy efficiency can add value to your properties and increase your lease occupancy rate. Lower energy bills can make for satisfied tenants.
What's a Multifamily Housing Audit?
It's an evaluation of how your multifamily building uses energy and includes specific recommendations on ways you can use energy more efficiently and reduce your monthly energy bill. MidAmerican Energy's energy specialist also will install several energy-saving measures designed to provide immediate energy and cost savings for the building owner and occupants at no cost.
Multifamily buildings located in Iowa that receive electricity and/or natural gas supplied directly from MidAmerican Energy are eligible for the audit. Multifamily buildings generally are defined as four or more units or three or more stories, including apartments and condominiums.
How Does the Audit Work?
The audit begins with a walk-through assessment of your building by an energy specialist, scheduled at your convenience. The energy audit consists of data collection, a summary report of findings and recommendations on ways to save energy.
Available Incentives
Rebate incentives will follow two tracks: a prescriptive track and a performance track.
The prescriptive track provides the standard equipment incentives similar to those from MidAmerican Energy's Residential and Nonresidential Equipment programs for measures identified in the audit report. Such items may include heating and cooling systems, lighting equipment, ENERGY STAR® rated appliances, building shell measures (including insulation) and commercial equipment measures in mixed-use buildings.
Additional incentives and assistance may be available for building owners undertaking a comprehensive whole-building approach to energy-saving projects. From the audit recommendations, submit a project scope of work to MidAmerican Energy for review. MidAmerican Energy will determine which track best fits the project and notify you in writing concerning the next steps.
Why Should I Have a Multifamily Housing Audit?
Participants in the Multifamily Housing program receive three main benefits: unbiased, trustworthy
energy-savings advice, immediate cost savings, and long-term savings with increased property value. Energy-efficient
improvements such as heating and cooling equipment; attic, roof, ceiling or sidewall insulation; energy management systems;
windows; building ventilation; lighting and ENERGY STAR rated refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers and commercial laundry equipment may be eligible to receive rebate incentives to help offset a portion of the purchase and installation costs.
Rebate incentives for other recommended and installed energy-efficient products will be equivalent to rebates offered in our Nonresidential Equipment and Custom Systems programs. The Multifamily Housing audit report and any subsequent custom project preapprovals will provide the appropriate rebate forms and instructions for each energy efficiency recommendation for your building.
Start saving now by calling our representatives to schedule your multifamily housing audit.
Brochure and Application Form
Learn more about the Multifamily Housing program by viewing a
program brochure. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your hard drive to view PDF files. Download a free copy by visiting the
Adobe Download Site.
Questions?
Call our representatives at
877-401-4059.