SMART Venturi Steam Traps qualify for Nicor Gas $600 Rebate Offer

Mechanical steam traps have an average lifespan of 4 years. These traps often tend to fail open, which results in constant leakage of live steam, thereby causing a loss of money and energy every second! In fact, the U.S. Department of Energy states that around 30 percent of the energy in industrial and manufacturing facilities is used inefficiently or unnecessarily due to a decline in the performance of mechanical steam traps over time and their subsequent failure. Therefore, it is very important to upgrade the existing mechanical steam traps in your facility with high-efficiency venturi-style steam traps, so that all the traps in your facility perform at the optimal level with a negligible rate of failure and without a decrease of performance over the lifespan of venturi style steam trap which can be in excess of 20 years. The venturi technology in steam traps virtually eliminates the possibility of live steam loss as a result of failed open traps, thus bringing massive energy savings and increased reliability. Moreover, with no chance of failure, the lifetime of venturi steam traps can be in excess of 20 years.

However, with every upgrade, the main concern is the finances involved as replacing all the steam traps in your facility can be quite expensive, especially if they are in the range of hundreds or thousands. But now, if your facility is located in the state of Illinois, then you don’t have to worry about the costs involved for a steam trap replacement project as the Nicor Gas Energy Efficiency Program has got you covered. Under its newly designed program, Nicor Gas is paying up to a $600 rebate for replacing each failed steam trap in your facility with a venturi steam trap, with a maximum cap of $350,000 per facility. What’s more exciting is that our SMART Steam Traps qualify for the $600 rebate. This rebate is only for venturi-style steam traps to be used to replace only failed mechanical steam traps of any style and size.

So, take advantage of this specialized rebate offer designed to cover in some cases up to 100% of project costs on venturi steam traps for your commercial facility from the Nicor Gas Energy Efficiency Program. All active commercial Nicor Gas customers that fall within its service area in the state of Illinois can avail of this rebate offer for energy efficiency upgrades. Participation in the program is quite simple with the following steps:

First, you need to schedule an introductory call with SMART Valves Inc., the leading venturi steam traps supplier in the state of Illinois. Just send us an email to info@smartvalvesinc.com mentioning the Nicor Gas rebate offer and we will get back to you right away.

Second, we need to perform a steam trap survey at your site to identify all failed and leaking steam traps (Remember that the Nicor Gas rebate offer only covers the replacement of failed and leaking steam traps). The cost of this survey is also covered by Nicor Gas at $15 per steam trap with a maximum amount of $15,000 per facility. However, if you have already conducted a steam trap survey for your facility in the past 12 months, then no additional survey is needed as the results of the previous survey can be used to qualify for the rebate program.

Third, after the survey, we will submit to Nicor Gas our survey findings and proposal to replace all failed steam traps with SMART Venturi Steam Traps under the Nicor gas rebate offer, which in many cases will bring your cost per steam trap down to $0.

This means that you can get a comprehensive steam trap survey and SMART Venturi Steam Traps from SMART Valves Inc. at virtually no cost. The only thing that you need to take care of is the installation of a SMART Steam Trap at your facility if the total number of venturi steam traps to be installed is less than 50. For larger projects, we can even offer a turnkey solutions which include product installation, commissioning, and then a 2-year free steam trap performance survey with partnering on the installation part with our subcontractors who would work under our project management team supervising the whole project.

Remember that this is a limited-time rebate offer from Nicor Gas and, as of today, it is scheduled to end on December 31st, 2023. So, hurry up and schedule an intro call that takes less than 45 minutes with SMART Valves Inc. as a first step, and we will walk you through the entire rebate process.