Overview
Program started in 1998 as an upstream motor vendor incentive program for motor vendors in New York State. Enrolled motor vendors were paid an incentive for each qualifying NEMA Premium® motor sold to an eligible end-user. In 2005, NYSERDA ended motor the incentives and since then the program has concentrated on developing motor management programs with motor vendors and end-users.   

Implementation
Program Representatives accompany motor vendors on sales calls to end-users to explain the various NYSERDA programs available to the end-user and encourage the end-user to agree to and participate in a motor inventory. The motor vendor and end-user provide the manpower to perform the inventory and the program representative provides the analysis based on the end-user’s business case and custom variables with various software tools. Once the analysis is completed, the program representative generates two reports. The first report lists the motors that are candidates to be replaced immediately with NEMA Premium® motors. The second report lists the motors that are candidates to be replaced at failure with NEMA Premium® motors. Both reports provide the anticipated energy savings on a motor by motor basis. The motor vendor uses the reports to complete negotiations with the end-user and the end-user uses the reports to demonstrate the potential energy savings if the recommendations made in the reports are followed.

Summary of Results
The program has completed 89 inventories and has over 8,300 motors in our database. The program has identified more than 7.7 million kWh and more than 1,070 kW in potential energy savings if all the candidate motors are replaced when suggested by the program’s analysis.  Overall, 52 percent of the motors inventoried are candidates to be replaced at failure with a NEMA Premium® motor and almost 12 percent of the motors inventoried are candidates to be replaced immediately with a NEMA Premium® motor. Additionally, approximately 85 percent of the motors inventoried are not NEMA Premium® motors.