Alabama
Agriculture Energy Efficiency Program
The Agriculture Energy Efficiency Program provides education and financial assistance for the implementation of energy efficiency technologies and renewable energy solutions for agriculture.
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Alabama Industrial Energy Efficiency Program
This program promotes energy efficiency opportunities to small-and medium-sized manufacturers to improve their profitability by reducing their energy costs. The program also provides education and training on the use of alternative energy sources and lean productivity processes in manufacturing.
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Alabama SAVES
The ADECA offers an energy revolving loan program for existing industries. The program provides financing solutions for commercial and industrial energy-efficiency and renewable energy projects in Alabama.
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Biomass Energy Program
The Biomass Energy Interest Subsidy Program is available to assist wood industry and non-wood industry businesses alike with installing biomass energy systems. The program provides up to $75,000 in interest subsidy payments on loans to install approved biomass projects. Eligible applicants include industrial, commercial, and institutional facilities, as well as agricultural property owners and city, county, and state entities. Landfill gas (LFG) projects are also eligible for funding consideration.
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Local Government Energy Loan Program
Through the loan program, local governments and public colleges and universities can borrow up to $350,000: K-12 public school systems can borrow up to $350,000 per campus or $500,000 per school system. Funds may be used for energy assessments and energy conservation improvements of buildings, water treatment plants, or street and sports field lighting, and traffic signals.
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Total Workforce Delivery System
AIDT offers to industry services such as comprehensive pre-employment selection and training, leadership development, on-the job training, continuous/process improvement assessments, maintenance assessments, and industrial safety assessments and training.
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Commercial Energy Check-up
This online tool helps commercial customers review and analyze their energy use.
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EnergyDirect
Alabama Power Company's EnergyDirect provides an online service that enables business customers to have 24/7 access to their account for billing and usage info. The tool provides graphing and analysis of customer's energy use, and alerts and metrics tailored to customer's business. The tool also provides custom account portfolios and has a benchmarking ability.
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Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Consulting Services
Alabama Power Company's Energy Experts will analyze the facility needs of its commercial customers and recommend the best-matched and most cost-effective HVAC solutions.
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Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Training Center
Alabama Power Company provides training on HVAC systems.
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Technology Application Centers
Alabama Power Company's Technology Applications Centers work to help improve energy efficiency, improve production processes, increase productivity, and address environmental concerns. The following types of services are offered: technical assistance, equipment demonstration, product testing, manufacturing process evaluation, and materials analysis.
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Electric Water Heater Program
The utility will offer a $100 rebate to customers that replace their water heaters with energy-efficient electric models.
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Energy Use Analysis
The cooperative will help nonresidential members look for ways to make their businesses more energy efficient.
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Performance Solutions
Baldwin Electric Member Cooperative's partnership with Touchstone Energy offers unique performance solutions for business and industry. Energy services specialists can help businesses implement cost-effective solutions for energy efficiency in the operation of members' facilities.
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Gas Appliance and Water Heater Programs
Customers will receive a credit on their natural gas bill if they purchase and install natural gas appliances or water heaters.
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Solar Program
Constellation will construct, maintain and manage a solar power array installed at a business at no cost to the business. Constellation NewEnergy will ensure reduced energy costs for the facility owner and maintains ownership of the solar array system.
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VirtuWatt
VirtuWatt is an online program that makes it easy to monitor energy usage and schedule load curtailments for demand response programs.
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Heat Pump Retrofit
The utility will provide financing of up to $10,000 for the purchase of a retrofit heat pump.
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Water Heater Rebate Program
The utility is offering rebates of $50 for the purchase of an energy-efficient electric water heater.
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Small Commercial Heat Pump Loans
The utility offers a loan to help small commercial customers finance the cost of a heat pump.
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Water Heater Program
The utility offers a $100 rebate if a customer purchases an energy-efficient water heater.
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Heat Pump Financing
The utility's electric heat pump program offers technical support for choosing a heat pump, a free warranty and free installation, as well as low-interest, fixed-rate financing for the purchase.
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Natural Gas Incentives
Rebates of up to $200 are available for the purchase of energy-efficient natural gas appliances.
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Commercial and Industrial Services
Huntsville Utilities offers a commercial and industrial program that includes power quality assessments, lighting recommendations, infrared scanning, and other types of energy assistance.
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Comprehensive Commercial Services
The cooperative offers its commercial members a variety of energy efficiency programs including energy audits, metering, power quality analysis, process recommendation, lighting, demand side management, and energy efficiency recommendations.
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Energy Management Services
Energy Management Services (EMS) provides evaluation of a customer's total energy use for the purpose of establishing energy conservation solutions that reduce the customer's annual energy expenses. EMS utilizes equipment inventory reports, historical energy bills, walk-through audits, load analysis, and equipment decision-making to provide the optimal use of energy in a facility.
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Generator Financing
Interested agricultural customers may qualify for financing of an automatic emergency generator. The current interest rate for generator loans is 7.0%, and is a tax-deductible expense.
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Heat Pump Financing
Sand Mountain Electric Cooperative offers low-interest heat pump loans to qualifying customers.
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Key Accounts - Comprehensive Services Program
This program addresses a range of energy-use topics, including the following: lighting; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning; wiring and electrical distribution equipment; metering; energy audits; food services; power quality; process recommendations; power factor; grounding/lightning; infrared scans; industrial expansion services; demand-side management; water heating; special end-use projects; industrial processes; load management; and commercial cooking. More information can be found in the Member Services section of the Sand Mountain Electric Cooperative website.
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Water Heater Reimbursement Program
Customers currently using gas water heaters may be eligible for a $150 reimbursement when they purchase a new electric water heater in exchange for their old gas one.
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Heat Pump Program
The utility offers a loan to help customers finance the cost of a heat pump.
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Water Heater Program
The utility offers a rebate up to $100 if a customer purchases an energy-efficient electric water heater.
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Electric Water Heater Rebate
Customers purchasing a qualifying electric water heater are eligible for a $50.00 cash rebate.
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Heat Pump Loan Program
The utility offers financing for energy-efficient heat pumps over a 10-year period at market interest rates.
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Commercial and Industrial Account Management Program
The cooperative offers commercial and industrial programs such as energy audits, heating and cooling consultations, loans and grants for expansion, lighting, etc. Support is related to reliability, rate structures, energy-efficiency issues, and loan programs.
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Energy Audits
SAEC will perform energy audits upon customer request.
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Energy Resource Conservation Loan
The cooperative offers a loan program to its members to help them finance the purchase of energy-efficient equipment.
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H2O Load Management Program
For no charge, the utility installs a device on the customer's water heater that periodically shuts the equipment off without the customer noticing a break in hot water supply or temperature. The customer does not receive a direct reduction on electric bills, but customers participating in the program help reduce electricity prices in the future.
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Energy Audit
A cooperative will perform an energy assessment of a residential or non-residential facility to locate energy-inefficient areas and processes.
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Nationwide Programs
Energy Information
The organization provides fact sheets on energy and environmental responsibility to its members.
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Energy Efficiency Resource Central
American Public Power Association offers technical assistance for its member utilities to help their key industrial customers improve their energy efficiency.
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Industrial Energy Efficiency Training
This company provides a wide variety of industrial training opportunities throughout the country. All programs are linked to certain industrial systems/practices and have an energy efficiency component.
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Energy Training Program
This organization offers seminars and online training sessions for engineers. Trainings cover a wide variety of energy-related topics, including energy efficiency and renewable energy generation.
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Brown Bag Energy Seminars
These 90-minute online Webinars cover a variety of energy topics including energy efficiency.
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Commercial Energy Advisor
This online tool will help commercial customers learn how to become more energy efficient.
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Efficiency & Demand-Response Programs Service
This online tool helps companies improve their demand response and energy efficiency programs.
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Industry Initiatives
Edison Electric Institute works with its member utilities to improve the energy efficiency of their industrial customers.
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Customized Business Energy Analysis
This online tool helps non-residential customers analyze their energy use.
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Energy Consultants
Energy Sciences specializes in demand side energy services for the municipal, commercial and industrial, sectors. We enable our clients to practice energy conservation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions while optimizing operating costs. Our core services include: development and implementation of comprehensive energy management programs, energy audits, energy efficient lighting solutions, staffing, and outreach/training programs. We believe that energy efficiency is an integral part of the energy solution needed for the future.
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Industrial Consortia
Energy Solutions Center convenes various industrial consortia of equipment manufacturers to address how they can improve their equipment to better meet the needs and energy efficiency objectives of industrial manufacturers.
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ENERGY STAR® Training
ENERGY STAR® offers free online training to help you improve the energy performance of your organization. No travel, no lost time out of the office, and no cost — EPA makes it easy to get the information you need today. Join your colleagues to better understand how EPA can help you lower operating costs, improve your energy management program, and expand your professional development.
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Tax Deductions for Commercial Buildings
A tax deduction of up to $1.80 per square foot is available to owners or designers of new or existing commercial buildings that save at least 50% of the heating and cooling energy of a building that meets ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2001. Partial deductions of up to $.60 per square foot can be taken for measures affecting any one of three building systems: the building envelope, lighting, or heating and cooling systems. These tax deductions are available for systems placed in service from January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2013.
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Project Finance Services
Hannon Armstrong offers loans to public-and-private sector businesses interested in making their buildings more energy efficient. The loan will cover up to 100% of total project costs.
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Biodiesel Income Tax Credit
Companies that put biodiesel fuel into a vehicle or use biodiesel fuels in their business vehicles are eligible for a tax credit of $1 per gallon.
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Biodiesel Income Tax Credit
Companies that put biodiesel fuel into a vehicle or uses biodiesel fuels in their business vehicles are eligible for a tax credit.
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Builders & Manufacturers Incentives
Credits are available to manufacturers of high-efficiency refrigerators, clothes washers and dishwashers. Due to these manufacturer incentives, special consumer promotions may be available for qualifying products.
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Business Tax Incentive
A tax deduction of up to $1.80 per square foot is available to owners or tenants (or designers, in the case of government-owned buildings) of new or existing commercial buildings that are constructed or reconstructed to save at least 50% of the heating, cooling, ventilation, water heating, and interior lighting energy cost of a building that meets ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2001.
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Combined Heat and Power (CHP)
A 10% investment tax credit for CHP property, applicable to only the first 15MW of CHP property.
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Commercial Solar Tax Credit
The Commercial Solar Tax Credit covers 30% of the cost of the system. The tax credit expires December 31, 2016.
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Corporate Tax Credit
In addition to receiving a tax credit for solar photovoltaic generation, a non-residential manager can receive a tax credit of 30 percent for geothermal energy, microturbines, and fuel cells.
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Fuel Cells and Microturbines Tax Incentive
Tax credits of up to $3,000 per kWh are available for the purchase of fuel cells, while tax credits of up to $200 per kWh are available for microturbines.
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On-Site Renewable Tax Incentive
Businesses are eligible for tax credits for qualified solar water heating and photovoltaic systems, and for certain solar lighting systems. Qualifying equipment will either use solar energy to generate electricity, to heat/cool or provide hot water to a structure, or will use solar energy to illuminate the inside of a building by means of fiber-optic distributed sunlight (tube systems and passive solar are not eligible). The credits are available for systems placed in service between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2016.
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Renewable Energy Generation Tax Credit
Non-residential managers can receive a 10-year tax credit if they help create renewable energy from one of the following sources: wind, closed loop biomass, open loop biomass, geothermal, solar, small irrigation power, municipal solid waste, and refined coal.
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Small Ethanol Producer Tax Credit
A small ethanol producer that is registered with the Internal Revenue Service may be eligible for a tax incentive in the amount of $0.10 per gallon of ethanol that is: sold and used by the purchaser in the purchaser's trade or business to produce an ethanol fuel mixture; sold and used by the purchaser as a fuel in a trade or business; sold at retail for use as a motor vehicle fuel; used by the producer in a trade or business to produce an ethanol fuel mixture; or used by the producer as a fuel in a trade or business. A small producer is one that has, at all times during the tax year, not more than 60 million gallons of productive capacity of any type of alcohol. The incentive applies only to the first 15 million gallons of ethanol produced in a tax year and is allowed as a credit against the producer's income tax liability. Under current law, this incentive expires December 31, 2010.
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Education and Outreach
The EERC conducts energy and environmental conferences, short courses, workshops, academic programs, and field experiences.
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Energy Information
NFDS offers training, technical resources, and technical assistance to its members.
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Energy Information
NADCA members can access the organization's energy audits, training, technical assistance and resources, and cost shared-R&D.
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3E Plus Insulation Thickness Computer Program
The 3E Insulation Thickness Computer Program is an industrial energy management tool developed to simplify the task of determining how much insulation is necessary to use less energy, reduce plant emissions and improve system process efficiency.
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Energy Information
OESA offers its members energy efficiency publications, trainings, and events.
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Pumping System Optimization and Energy-Efficiency Education & Training
Vendor neutral market awareness, education, training, products, services and tools that focus on energy savings opportunities with pumping systems
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Energy Information
The organization offers technical assistance, resources, and cost shared-R&D to its members.
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Environmental Project Financing
The StePP Foundation matches organizations with environmental improvement projects (include renewable energy and energy efficiency) with companies that have financing to implement those projects.
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Biobased Products and Bioenergy Program
Loans are available to help rural industry generate electricity from biobased sources.
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Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels
This program was created to ensure an expanding production of advanced biofuels by providing payments to eligible advanced biofuel producers in rural areas. Payments will be made to eligible advanced biofuel producers for the production of fuel derived from renewable biomass, other than corn kernel starch.
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Biorefinery Assistance Loan Guarantee
Loans are available to help biorefineries conserve and use energy more effectively. Loan guarantees are available up to $250 million.
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Business and Industry Guaranteed Loans
Loans of up to $10 million are available to rural industrial manufacturers to improve the economic and environmental climate in their communities.
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Energy Efficiency Improvements Loan
Loans are available for the purchase of renewable energy generating systems by small rural businesses or agricultural producers.
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Repowering Assistance Program
This program offers incentives for biorefineries to switch to renewable biomass energy production.
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Rural Energy for America Program Guaranteed Loan Program (REAP LOAN)
The REAP Guaranteed Loan Program encourages the commercial financing of renewable energy (bioenergy, geothermal, hydrogen, solar, wind and hydro power) and energy efficiency projects. Under the program, project developers will work with local lenders, who in turn can apply to USDA Rural Development for a loan guarantee up to 85% of the loan amount.
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USDA Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements Program
This program provides grants and loans to small businesses in rural communities that are interested in making their buildings more energy efficient.
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Boise State University Industrial Assessment Center (IAC)
The Boise State University IAC provides energy conservation and cost reduction assessments to small- and medium-sized manufacturers within about 150 miles of its campus, and educates energy managers on energy efficiency.
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Loan Guarantee Program
DOE offers loans to projects that “avoid, reduce, or sequester air pollutants or anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases.” Loans are available for biomass, hydrogen, wind, solar, hydropower, advanced fossil energy coal, carbon, electricity delivery and reliability, alternative fuel vehicles, pollution control equipment, and industrial energy efficiency projects.
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Oklahoma Green Grant
The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded Oklahoma a $6 million green-job grant to train workers in emerging industries such as energy efficiency and renewable energy. The goal is to train 4,700 workers in two years for jobs that pay above the state's per capita income.
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Renewable Energy Production Incentive (REPI)
REPI provides financial incentives of $0.015/kWh of electricity generated from renewable sources. This incentive is issued for the first decade of operation.
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U.S. Department of Energy Industrial Assessment Center (IAC): University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky IAC's primary purpose is to help serve the energy, waste, and productivity needs of small- and medium-sized manufacturing facilities within a geographic radius of approximately 150 miles of the University of Kentucky.
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U.S. Department of Energy State Energy Program
The State Energy Program (SEP) provides grants to states and directs funding to state energy offices from technology programs in DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. States use grants to address their energy priorities and program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
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UnSolicited EERE Proposals
Unsolicited proposals may be selected if they are novel and do not reflect a current solicitation or existing work.
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American Reinvestment and Recovery Act Tax Credits and Grants
Tax credits and grants are available from select state energy offices to help promote renewable energy generation and/or energy efficiency.
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Payments for Specified Energy Property in Lieu of Tax Credits
ARRA authorizes the Department of the Treasury to make payments to eligible persons that either place in service particular types of energy property in 2009 or 2010, or, under certain circumstances, begin construction on such property in 2009 or 2010. These payments are generally equal to 10 or 30 percent of the eligible cost basis of the property, depending on the type of property. Those that apply for these payments must forego tax credits that they could otherwise receive under sections 45 and 48 of the Internal Revenue Code. The types of energy property that are eligible for these payments include, among others, various renewable energy generation facilities, microturbines, and fuel cells.
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Production Tax Credit (PTC)
Through the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Congress acted to provide a three-year extension of the PTC through December 31, 2012. Additionally, wind project developers can choose to receive a 30% investment tax credit (ITC) in place of the PTC for facilities placed in service in 2009 and 2010, and also for facilities placed in service before 2013 if construction begins before the end of 2010. The ITC then qualifies to be converted to a grant from the Department of Treasury. The Treasury Department must pay the grant within 60 days of an application being submitted.
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Clean Construction USA Loans
EPA offers loans to companies to help finance projects that reduce diesel emissions from construction equipment and vehicles.
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Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Partnerships
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems are an efficient, clean and reliable approach to generating power and thermal energy from a single fuel source. Incentives on CHP systems are available through the EPA.
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ENERGY STAR® for Industry
The ENERGY STAR® program is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency which seeks to increase implementation of energy efficient equipment and techniques.
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Tax Deductions for Commercial Buildings
A tax deduction of up to $1.80 per square foot is available to owners or designers of new or existing commercial buildings that save at least 50% of the heating and cooling energy of a building that meets ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2001. Partial deductions of up to $.60 per square foot can be taken for measures affecting any one of three building systems: the building envelope, lighting, or heating and cooling systems. Available for systems “placed in service” from January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2013.
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