Electric Capital Investment Incentive Program (National Grid)

Electric Capital Investment Incentive Program (National Grid) is sponsored by National Grid. This program provides funds to help offset customer costs associated with upgrading utility infrastructure to accommodate a business expansion or new construction project. This can include electrical infrastructure upgrades.

ShovelReady::: Grant Programs NationalGrid@shovelready. com Whether your goal is to focus your community's economic development and business recruitment efforts, develop strategies and materials for marketing your community or to redevelop buildings and brownfields in your community, National Grid’s Economic Development Grant Program may be able to assist you.

National Grid’s Economic Development Grant Program is approved by the New York State Public Service Commission. National Grid’s Economic Development Grant Program maintains a strong focus on site development, urban revitalization, strategic marketing, and facilitating customer growth through infrastructure assistance, energy efficiency and productivity improvement.

The Program reflects an increasing emphasis on sustainable development, the efficient use of existing energy infrastructure, and the strategic deployment of renewable generation technologies.

Strategic Economic Development Program Cooperative Business Recruitment Building Ready Upstate Program Site Development Programs Industrial Building Redevelopment Shovelready Infrastructure Energy Infrastructure Programs Electric Capital Investment Incentive Natural Gas Capital Investment Incentive Three Phase Power Incentive Power Quality Enhancements Community Development Programs Main Street/Commercial District Revitalization Urban Center/Commercial District Revitalization Energy Efficiency & Productivity Energy Efficiency in Empire Zones Agribusiness Productivity Electric Manufacturing Productivity Program Natural Gas Manufacturing Productivity Program Renewable Energy Programs Renewable Energy and Economic Development Sustainable Gas and Economic Development Strategic Economic Development Program Competition for economic development projects among states and regions continues to grow.

This National Grid program is designed to increase effective marketing and sales initiatives aimed at “strategic targets. ” The Strategic Economic Development Program provides expertise and incremental resources to leverage more and better macro-level business attraction research, marketing and sales efforts. The goal is to generate out-of-state prospects for direct investment in National Grid’s upstate New York service territory.

Program Description for Strategic Economic Development Program Online Program Application Cooperative Business Recruitment The Cooperative Business Recruitment program provides incremental matching funds for cooperative marketing initiatives between National Grid and regional or local economic development partners.

Program Description for Coperative Business Recruitment Program Online Program Application Building Ready Upstate Program Many Upstate NY communities lack an inventory of quality buildings to attract new businesses. Another hurdle to overcome is the length of the approval process for constructing a new building.

Empire State Development has started a program (Shovelready certification) to address the length of time necessary in permitting sites. This program would follow the same principles of reducing the up-front time required in gaining the necessary approvals for new building construction.

Program Description for Building Ready Upstate Program Online Program Application Site Development Programs Industrial Building Redevelopment The Industrial Building Assistance program provides grants of up to $250,000 to building owners undertaking efforts to retrofit the interior electric and gas infrastructure required to convert these buildings to multi-tenant industrial use.

The grants will be made through local industrial development agencies or other quasi public development corporations.

Program Description for Industrial Building Redevelopment Online Program Application ShovelReady Infrastructure The ShovelReady Infrastructure program provides grants of up to $250,000 for the installation of electric and natural gas infrastructure by local development agencies to New York state designated "Shovel Ready" BuildNow NY sites.

Program Description for Shovelready Infrastructure Online Program Application The Brownfield Redevelopment program provides grants to fund utility related infrastructure improvements and other costs that are necessary to progress the redevelopment of a brownfield site or vacant building.

Program Description for Brownfield Redevelopment Online Program Application Community Development Programs Main Street/Commercial District Revitalization National Grid's upstate NY service territory includes a substantial number of small to medium sized urban centers and main street corridors that possess unrealized potential and are located where we often have excess utility infrastructure and capacity.

As a result of public/private partnerships and planning initiatives, communities are prioritizing and implementing unique projects that impact their competitive viability, attract investment and capitalize on their distinct development potential. This program is designed to assist communities in realizing their goals and promote "smart growth" investment in central business districts and commercial corridors.

Program Description for Main Street/Commercial District Revitalization Online Program Application Upstate New York State Mainstreet Program This program supports the development of a self-sustaining entrepreneurial and innovation “ecosystem” in upstate New York that will stimulate and support high growth new businesses generating new jobs and new investment in the National Grid service territory.

National Grid has created this program to support initiatives that facilitate formation of new ventures or growth of high potential small ventures and also to make buildings more marketable for the creation of new jobs in the clean tech industry and other advanced technology industry sectors.

Program Description for CleanTech Incubation Online Program Application Urban Center/Commercial District Revitalization This program is designed to assist these metro centers in National Grid New York’s service territory achieve their revitalization goals, increase property tax bases, and promote “smart growth” and sustainable investment in central business districts and commercial corridors.

The Urban Center/Commercial District Revitalization program provides matching grants of up to $250,000 to local municipalities, development corporations, universities, and medical complexes undertaking major neighborhood Program Description for Urban Center/Commercial District Revitalization Online Program Application Energy Infrastructure Programs Electric Capital Investment Incentive The Electric Capital Investment Incentive Program provides funds to help offset the customer costs associated with upgrading utility infrastructure to accommodate a business expansion or new construction project.

Program Description for Electric Capital Investment Incentives Online Program Application Natural Gas Capital Investment Incentive The Natural Gas Capital Investment Incentive Program provides funds to help offset customer costs associated with upgrading natural gas infrastructure to accommodate a business expansion or new construction project.

Program Description for Natural Gas Capital Investment Incentives Online Program Application Three Phase Power Incentive The 3-Phase Power Incentive program provides grants of up to $100,000 to help fund the extension of 3-phase electric service to eligible National Grid customers.

Program Description for Three Phase Power Incentives Online Program Application Power Quality Enhancements Program This program offers financial incentives to qualified customers for the installation of power quality mitigation equipment and controls.

Qualifying applicants must demonstrate their facility has a power quality problem that results in production, operational, or quality constraints, including but not limited to downtime and outage costs.

Program Descriptions for Power Quality Enhancements Program Online Program Application Energy Efficiency & Productivity Energy Efficiency in Empire Zones The Energy Efficiency in Empire Zones program provides assistance to Empire Zone businesses in the service territory of Niagara Mohawk.

The program provides incentives to eligible customers for installation of energy-efficient lighting, controls, HVAC equipment, motors/electronic speed controls, and other systems that reduce energy use and/or enhance productivity.

Program Descriptions for Energy Efficiency in Empire Zones Online Program Application National Grid Energy Efficiency Programs Agribusiness Productivity The agribusiness industry is a critical component of the upstate New York economy, both as a direct employer and wealth generator and as a key input to a large number of “downstream” manufacturing industries.

The Agribusiness Productivity program provides rebates to fund energy efficiency, renewable energy delivery and/or productivity improvements undertaken by dairy businesses, dairy farms and controlled environment agricultural facilities located within the service territory of National Grid New York.

Program Descriptions for Agribusiness Productivity Online Program Application Electric Manufacturing Productivity Program The Electric Manufacturing Productivity Program (EMPP) provides matching grants, based on costs incurred by eligible applicants, whose top management commits the time and resources to “lean manufacturing” projects or manufacturing assistance projects that result in eliminating waste and increasing productivity on the “shop floor” and/or in the office.

Further, the program provides matching grants for growth-targeted activities that result in greater utilization of manufacturing capacity and increased matching grants for projects that combine and coordinate the productivity and growth activities described above.

The Manufacturing Productivity Program was developed in partnership with the Regional Technology Development Centers (RTDCs) from Western New York, Finger Lakes, Central New York, Mohawk Valley, North Country, and Capital Region and is delivered in conjunction with these RTDCs. RTDC contact information is provided at the end of this program description. Program eligibility requirements are in the Program Description.

Program Description for Electric Manufacturing Productivity Program Online Program Application Natural Gas Manufacturing Productivity Program The Natural Gas Manufacturing Productivity Program (NGMPP) provides matching grants, based on costs incurred by eligible applicants, whose top management commits the time and resources to “lean manufacturing” projects or manufacturing assistance projects that result in eliminating waste and increasing productivity on the “shop floor” and/or in the office.

Further, the program provides matching grants for growth-targeted activities that result in greater utilization of manufacturing capacity and increased matching grants for projects that combine and coordinate the productivity and growth activities described above.

The Manufacturing Productivity Program was developed in partnership with the Regional Technology Development Centers (RTDCs) from Western New York, Finger Lakes, Central New York, Mohawk Valley, North Country, and Capital Region and is delivered in conjunction with these RTDCs. RTDC contact information is provided at the end of this program description. Program eligibility requirements are in the Program Description.

This program is for National Grid natural gas customers, not located in the Company's electric service territory.

Program Description for Natural Gas Manufacturing Productivity Program Online Program Application Renewable Energy Programs Renewable Energy and Economic Development This program will fund a limited number of projects in the National Grid service territory that demonstrate alternative generation technologies while producing significant economic development benefits for the region.

Program Descriptions for Renewable Energy and Economic Development Online Program Application Sustainable Gas And Economic Development The program will provide matching grants of up to $250,000 for collaborative projects that involve an Upstate research institution, one or more sustainable gas or gas transportation technologies and a regional economic development sponsor.

Program Description for Sustainable Gas And Economic Development Online Program Application National Grid contributes millions of dollars every year to deserving programs, most notably in energy, education and the environment—three areas critical to the core business of our company moving forward. We want to ensure our approach is sustainable and enables us to build meaningful long-term relationships with the community.

National Grid has a strong commitment to the communities we serve. We support programs designed to help improve the way people live, work and play. Our funding is available across our service territories to organizations meeting our established guidelines.