Current | LES Customer Newsletter Current - September 2020

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SEPTEMBER 2020
GO ELECTRIC AND SAVE! EV rebates
available to LES residential customers
As of Sept. 1, 2020, Lincoln
Electric System is offering
rebates to LES residential
customers purchasing
or leasing a new electric
vehicle for the first time.
This rebate program
has been made possible
by a $120,000 grant
awarded by the Nebraska
Environmental Trust
in June. Incentives of
$1,500 are available for
the first-time purchase or
minimum 3-year lease of a
new plug-in hybrid electric
vehicle, and $4,500 for
the first-time purchase or
minimum 3-year lease of
a new all-electric vehicle,
including the purchase and
installation of an internetconnected
home charging
station and LES access to
charging data for up to
five years.
Data gathered from these
home charging stations will
help further LES’ ongoing
study of customer charging
behaviors and their impacts
on the community’s electric
grid. This promotion is
limited to LES residential
customers only, limit one
per household, and only
applies to purchases or
leases made on or
after Sept. 1.
“This grant represents
another big step for electric
vehicles in the Lincoln area
— not just their adoption,
but their continued study
by LES as we prepare
to accommodate more
EVs on the electric grid
in the future,” said Marc
Shkolnick, manager of
Energy Services at LES.
“Despite the pandemic,
trends continue to point
to wider adoption of EVs
across the nation. As the
area’s public power utility,
it is our responsibility keep
customers informed and
engaged, and to prepare for
a plug-in future.”
More information on the
rebate and LES’ recent EV
study results are available
at LES.com/ev. There,
visitors are also invited to
join LES’ EV Interest Group,
open to all who own or are
interested in EVs in
our community.
Rebate requests will be
accepted on a first-come,
first-serve basis.
WINTER RATES IN EFFECT OCT. 1
Winter rates, which are lower than our summer rates, go into effect from October through May the following year.
This year’s residential winter rate is $.0548 per kilowatt-hour. View commercial rates, which vary by customer type,
online at LES.com/business/rates.