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Commercial Electrician in Dade City, FL
LED Lighting Upgrades, Sign Circuits, and Commercial Repairs|Licensed & Insured, EC13011268
Mention whether you plan to apply for the lighting rebate.
Tampa Electric, the utility serving the Dade City area, runs a rebate program to upgrade a building's permanent lighting to LED. The program sets the order of the job: approval comes first, the installation second, and some of the lights on a storefront don't qualify at all.
Call (352) 251-2795, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., or send a request online. Calls after hours are returned the next business day.
The Lighting rebate
Tampa Electric's Lighting Program, Before Anything Changes
The program covers upgrades to the permanent lighting at an existing facility, and the new system has to be LED. Tampa Electric splits it into two applications, one for conditioned space and one for non-conditioned space, and refrigerated LED display cases may also qualify. New construction projects do not.
Pre-approval is required before work begins. The application asks for your Tampa Electric account number, the contractor's license number and its expiration date, and for uploads of specification sheets, a fixture count where one is available, the contractor's detailed proposal, and a lighting retrofit proposal. Fixtures that go up early put the rebate at risk, so the installation date is set after Tampa Electric answers.
The sign is a separate conversation
In non-conditioned space, Tampa Electric lists lighting it won't rebate: signage, landscape, flagpole, stadium, and sports-field lighting. A storefront's sign lighting, therefore, remains outside the LED project, even when both are done at once.
Downtown, the city's CRA runs a separate Sign Grant that the CRA Board must authorize before work begins, so a sign in your plans runs on its own calendar.
Older downtown buildings may be on the city's historic register, which brings its own review when a permit is filed. Our Dade City page explains that step.
How a rebate-aligned upgrade runs
From Fixture Count to Rebate Invoice
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1. Sort the fixtures by space
We list the fixtures by type and note which ones light air-conditioned rooms and which light a warehouse, a canopy, or the lot, since Tampa Electric takes those on different applications.
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2. The proposal and the spec sheets
The application requires the contractor's detailed proposal and the fixture specification sheets, along with our license number and expiration date.
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3. Tampa Electric's answer
You submit the application and keep the enrollment number it returns. Tampa Electric reviews it and contacts you if it needs more information or once it has decided.
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4. Installation, area by area
Once Tampa Electric has answered, the old fixtures come down or are converted, and the LED fixtures go in, area by area.
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5. Paid invoice to close the file
When the work is finished and paid, you upload the paid invoice to the same application using your enrollment number.
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Billing and Estimates
Hourly Repairs, Emailed Estimates, and Our Warranty
Repair and troubleshooting visits are billed by the hour from arrival: $100 residential, $150 commercial, one-hour minimum, then half-hour increments, plus materials. No trip charge and no service fee. No hidden fees: the 3.5% surcharge on card and ACH payments is listed in our terms.
We don't do upfront pricing. No job has a standard price with us: each one is tailored to the property and the work you've asked for, and priced once we've seen it.
We offer free estimates on installs, upgrades, and replacements in our service area. Estimates aren't free when the job needs troubleshooting or testing to price, falls after hours or outside our service area, needs several meetings to gather information, or is new construction or a custom remodel with multi-party walk-throughs. For most jobs, estimates arrive by email by the end of the next business day, and quotes are good for 30 days.
Custom homes and large or multi-phase projects are estimated as soon as we can, or on the timeline your project sets.
Our warranty
04If something we installed fails because of our workmanship within 30 days of completion, we waive the hourly labor to put it right. Materials Kennedy Electric purchases for your job carry the manufacturer's one-year warranty. To replace defective materials we supplied, or materials damaged by storm, flood, fire, or other acts of God, we charge a reduced warranty labor rate of $50 an hour residential and $75 an hour commercial. The warranty does not cover materials not purchased by Kennedy Electric, work performed by the customer, or materials the customer purchased or damaged. Our warranty terms are printed on the estimate, the invoice, and the receipt, and the product boxes stay with you so you can register each product with its manufacturer.
Do our parking lot lights count toward the rebate?
Can we remove fixtures we don't need?
Contact us
Have Your Fixtures Listed Before the Rebate Application
Tell us the building, roughly how many fixtures it has, and whether you're applying for the Tampa Electric rebate or a CRA grant. We'll get back to you during business hours.