How does the offering work?

• Participating suppliers provide customers with instant savings directly on the invoice

• Participating suppliers submit the invoice for reimbursement using the online portal

• Instant savings reimbursement and sales incentives are paid back to the participating supplier after approval

• Sales incentives vary based on the type of equipment sold, with no cap on sales incentives

What resources are provided?

• Easy-to-use online portal to submit claims and track payments

• Marketing materials for your showroom—a program banner, stickers for qualifying equipment, and flyers

• Training for you and your staff

• Support from our team to help answer your questions

• A Qualified Products List of equipment models, with instant savings and sales incentive amounts, is available here.

Who can become a participating supplier?

Commercial Food Service equipment dealers and equipment suppliers who sell qualifying energy-efficient equipment directly to eligible customers.

How do I participate?

• Sell qualifying, energy-efficient commercial food service equipment to customers who are served by AEP Texas.

• Review the Participating Supplier Agreement

• Provide a W-9.

• Complete a mandatory one-hour training (scheduled at your availability) to discuss:

  • Offering rules and requirements

  • Eligible equipment you may already sell

  • Marketing the instant savings to your customers

  • Understanding the participating supplier sales incentive

  • Submitting claims using the online portal

  • Tracking submitted claims and payments

Are inspections required?

• To ensure that qualifying equipment is installed at eligible commercial locations within the AEP Texas service territory, Frontier Energy, the program implementer, will conduct visual inspections.

• The inspection will consist of a representative collecting the serial number and taking a photograph of the installed equipment for which the customer has received instant savings.

• The inspection will be scheduled directly with the customer, at the customer’s convenience, and should take about 5 minutes.