Guidelines for Qualifying Technologies as Potential Prescriptive Measures in the New Jersey SmartStart Buildings Program

The purpose of this document is to assist vendors on how technologies or measures can be included in the New Jersey SmartStart Buildings (NJSSB) program's prescriptive list for incentives. This document defines, in general terms, how energy efficient technologies and conservation measures can be added to the prescriptive list and identifies the process steps.

Conservation measures and energy efficient technologies that are on the present prescriptive list have established performance and reliability characteristics that lend them to well-defined outcomes for energy savings and long life of use.

For energy efficient technologies and conservation measures that are not on the present prescriptive list, a custom path in the program has been developed for the purpose of evaluating their performance and potential energy savings characteristics. This path allows for new or unknown technologies and measures to become eligible for incentives and be tested at customer locations within the State. If these custom measures satisfy the requirement of predictability of energy savings and the general procedure below, they may move forward and be adopted onto the prescriptive list.