Growth Incentive Program

Heartland's Growth Incentive Program is designed to help stimulate community growth. Initially, the program will be targeted toward new businesses and the expansion of existing businesses.
After the program is started, other areas of growth will be considered.

For qualifying businesses and Customers, the incentive may be two-fold. First, a cash incentive for new jobs meeting minimum criteria; and second, a rebate on the retail electric power bills for three-years for all load growth (measured in kilowatt-hours) in any month that Heartland realizes a corresponding load growth. These incentives are not available to any Heartland Customer that acquires the business from another Heartland Customer.

For new commercial and industrial customers served directly by Heartland, a discount will be provided on electric power bills from Heartland over a three-year period.

The Incentive Details - New Businesses *

1. Cash Incentives For New Job Creation (Business must be located in community
served by Heartland).

A. Wage or salary-equivalent requirement

Minimum New Positions	Customer’s 2000 Population
2	Less than 500 people
3	Between 500 and 5,000 people
5	More than 5,000 people

2. Rebate/Discount on Electric Power Bills (New retail customer of city served by
Heartland OR commercial or industrial customer served directly by Heartland)

Portion of Power Bill Rebate/Discount	Eligible Time Period After Startup
Fifty percent (50.0%)	During each of first twelve (12) months*
Thirty-five percent (35.0%)	During each of months 13 - 24*
Twenty percent (20.0%)	During each of months 25 - 36*

*Not to exceed $50,000 per business per year

The Incentive Details - Growing/Expanding Businesses

1. Cash Incentives For New Job Creation (Business must be located in qualifying
community served by Heartland).

A. Wage or salary-equivalent requirement

Wage of At Least	One-Time Incentive
$8.00 per hour	$300.00 per new job
$12.00 per hour	$500.00 per new job
$16.00 per hour	$700.00 per new job

B. Qualifying new jobs will be evaluated and paid at the beginning of the
business's expansion and on each six-month anniversary of the expansion
for a total of three years (36 months). Each anniversary's evaluation will be
measured against the highest level of employment of the previous
anniversaries since the beginning of the expansion. Jobs considered for
evaluation must be full-time, non-temporary employment.

C. Each qualifying new employee must preside within a 10 mile radius of the Customer community to be considered for a new or expanding business.

2. Rebate on Electric Power Bills (Expansion/Growth of retail customer of qualifying
Customer served by Heartland)

*Not to exceed $50,000 per business per year

Measurement of load growth will be determined on a monthly basis based on kilowatt-hours of energy compared to the average of the two previous years of the same month. In the event a business is less than two years old, the measurement will based on the previous year's bill of the same month. Any month whose previous two-year average electric load is greater than month under consideration will not be eligible for refund.


Implementation Procedure ·

* The Customer will make the application to Heartland on behalf of its retail customer.

* Businesses must provide adequate documentation of each new position including
starting wage/salary and employment status (full-time permanent) to be eligible for the
cash incentive. Documentation is to be provided by authorized, knowledgeable
management member of the business.

* New business must submit copy of each month's retail power for rebate eligibility.
Expanding businesses must also include copy of same month's bill for two previous
years or as noted above.

* Businesses must submit adequate documentation of additional jobs on each six-
month's anniversary for additional cash incentives and total employment on the
anniversary since startup or commencement of expansion.

* The addition of a new business or expansion of a current business MUST result in a
corresponding increase in Heartland's energy sales to its Customer to receive full value
of any of the incentives.

1. Heartland As Full Supplemental Supplier: Required documentation will be the retail
customer's current power bill, and for expansion businesses, the appropriate
previous bills. Additionally the specific employment information will be provided in
the same manner. The District's Customer will provide the information to Heartland.

2. Heartland is Non Full Supplemental Supplier: The Heartland Customer will provide
the specific documentation to substantiate that Heartland experienced a
corresponding increase in its energy sales (specifically kilowatt-hours) to that
Customer. Employment incentives will be paid on a monthly basis at the rate of one-
sixth (1/6) of full incentive for each month of the six-month period following the
application and subsequent six-month anniversaries provided that Heartland
receives the required documentation that its energy sales increased a
corresponding amount because of the startup or expanded business.

* Incentive payments from Heartland will be made jointly to the wholesale Customer and
the retail customer.

* Heartland reserves the right to make random spot audits to verify
the accuracy of the information submitted for payments.