Recipients of the New Jersey’s Clean Energy Program (NJCEP) ARRA funds must comply with the Buy American clause unless a specific exemption applies.
 
The Board of Public Utilities (BPU) is the New Jersey State Energy Office (SEO) tasked by the US Department of Energy to oversee compliance issues associated with energy-related ARRA projects. As part of this supervisory role, the BPU will review compliance to the “Buy American” initiative for these projects occurring within the state of New Jersey. Below is a list of products, categorized by measure, that have been conditionally approved by the BPU for use in ARRA-funded projects. This list will be augmented as more items are submitted for consideration; it is not comprehensive and may not list all items that qualify as Buy American compliant. To find out if an unlisted product can be utilized in an ARRA/public project, please contact the NJCEP Direct Install program at 866-NJSMART.
   
If any part of a public project receives ARRA funds, the Buy American initiative applies to the entire project unless the ARRA funds are only used for certain portions of the project and those portions are separated by scope and cost within the contract. The Buy American terms are required to be part of every request for proposal or solicitation of bids and all contracts. Additional Buy American Requirements can be found in the Complete Application Package, which can be downloaded from the EECBG program page.

• Exempt Items (approved for ARRA use)

• CFLs

• HVAC Systems

1. Boyertown Furnace
2. Bryant
3. Carrier
4. Combustion Research Corporation
5. Crown Boiler
6. Detroit Radiant Products
7. Lennox
8. Modine
9. Peerless
10. Slant/Fin
11. Trane
12. Weil-McLain

• Lighting Fixtures

1. Barron Lighting Group
2. Day-Bright Lighting
3. Energy Planning Associates
4. Hubbel Lighting, Inc.
5. K-B Lighting Mfg.
6. Mobern Lighting
7. On Time Lighting
8. Paraflex Industries
9. Simkar Corporation
10. Stonco
11. TCP
12. US Energy Sciences
13. Westinghouse

• Lighting Retrofit Components

• Envirobrite

• Linear Fluorescent Lamps

1. General Electric
2. Philips Lighting
3. Sylvania

• Miscellaneous Equipment

• Honeywell
• NEOPERL
• Obvius

• Occupancy Sensors

1. Leviton
2. Sensor Switch

• Refrigeration Equipment

1. National Resource Management, Inc.

• Solar Equipment

1. Advanced Energy
2. American Solar Works Holdings
3. Kyocera
4. Kyocera 200-60 P Series
5. Sunmodule

•  Variable Frequency Drives

The Department of Energy guidance document provides additional information for the Buy American provision.