Mississippi
Commercial Efficiency Advice and Incentives Program (CEAI)
The Commercial Efficiency Advice and Incentives Program (CEAI) offers commercial customers facility energy assessments to help them make informed decisions on energy-saving investments. Financial assistance is also available for projects that help reduce power use during TVA’s peak periods. The incentives can shorten project payback periods.
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Heat Pump Program
4-County Electric Power Association offers a variety of incentives and financing options for the installation of heat pumps that meet its requirements.
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Sunscreen Program
The utility offers customers incentives on obtaining sunscreens for businesses. Sunscreens decrease the amount of energy used to cool a building.
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Water Heater Rebate
Alcorn County Electric Power Association is offering $100 rebates toward the purchase of energy-efficient water heaters. The water heater must be electric to qualify for the rebate.
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Energy Right Solutions for Business
Central Electric Power Association offers business customers the following services: technical advice, financial assistance, and custom incentives.
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Generation Partners
Generation Partners supports businesses that install small scale renewable generating sources such as solar panels or wind turbines, on their property. Generation Partners puts ordinary users of Tennessee Valley Authority power into business generating renewable energy. Renewable energy system costs are reduced by reduced energy bills and revenue from the sale of green power.
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Green Power Switch
Green Power Switch is a simple way for your business to increase regional renewable energy investment. For $4 per month businesses can support renewable energy such as wind, solar, and bio-energy.
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Major Industrial Program
The Major Industrial Program is designed to encourage reductions in electric energy intensity in large industrial facilities that have a contract demand greater than 5 megawatts. Customized technical assistance is available for industrial customers that are interested in taking a plant-wide, holistic approach to finding and developing energy efficiency opportunities. Participants may be eligible for financial incentives for implementing qualified projects.
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Water Heater Program
A customer is eligible to receive a $50 rebate on the purchase of an energy-efficient electric water heater.
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Commercial Energy Audits
Coast Electric Power Association provides energy audits for commercial customers. A representative from the cooperative will walk through a customer's business and identify existing systems that could be made more energy efficient.
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Commercial Energy Calculator
This online tool helps commercial customers analyze energy use.
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Commercial Heat Pump Rebate Program
Coast Electric Power Association is offering rebates of $50 per ton for the purchase of heat pumps. This rebate is applicable to both new constructions and retrofit projects.
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Cooking Equipment Rebates
The utility is offering a rebate on high-efficiency cooking equipment.
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Gas to Electric Changeout
If a business replaces existing gas equipment with electric equipment, it is eligible for a rebate of $20 per kW.
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Constellation NewEnergy Online
The Constellation NewEnergy Online program is an energy-management tool that is available to all electricity customers free of charge. The tool allows customers to find opportunities to improve energy efficiencies, track changes in energy usage, and compare usage across multiple facilities.
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Energy Efficiency Projects
Constellation Energy Projects Services provides solutions designed to achieve energy goals and promote a sustainable future by offering an extensive array of products and services.
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Load Response for Your Business
Commercial customers can receive financial rewards, either in the form of dollars or energy bill credits, for using less energy during peak energy usage when regional power grids are under stress. Constellation will work with the users to develop a variety of projects to meet this energy usage reduction.
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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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Energy Audit
A representative from the cooperative will analyze a member's facility to determine how to make it more energy efficient.
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DataLink
Entergy Mississippi's DataLink provides the products and services needed to gain a thorough understanding of energy data and the ability to use that information to develop and implement complete energy management strategies.
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Commercial & Industrial Program
The Energy Division is committed to helping the commercial and industrial sectors save energy, which helps lower operating costs and improves productivity. Industries of the Future (IOF) focuses on reduction of energy requirements in manufacturing, while stimulating economic productivity and growth.
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Energy Investment Loan Program
Mississippi offers low-interest loans for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. Industries that are eligible under this program include: manufacturers, national or regional headquarters, telecommunications and data processing facilities, retail centers, research and development facilities, warehouses and distribution centers.
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Energy Services
The Mississippi Development Authority Energy Division offers projects and services that accelerate the deployment of energy-efficiency and renewable-energy technology, as well as facilitate the acceptance of emerging and underutilized efficiency and renewable technologies.
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Existing Industry Productivity Loan Program
Existing manufacturing industries that have been operating in the state for at least two years may apply for the Existing Industry Productivity Loan. The loan may only be used for job retention and improvement of productivity and competiveness. The maximum loan amount per business is $500,000.
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State Energy Program (SEP) Formula Grant Plan
Through the Functions/Activities under its SEP Plan, the State of Mississippi seeks to: 1) promote efficient utilization of energy throughout its various consumption sectors; 2) encourage the use and development of renewable energy resources and alternative transportation fuels; 3) ensure that the State's energy consumers utilize energy in its more efficient forms; 4) provide consumers with the knowledge, technical expertise, skills, and resources to use both conventional and alternative energy fuels more effectively; and 5) fully utilize our natural and energy resources to create business and economic development opportunities.
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MsET Services
Mississippi Enterprise for Technology is a private nonprofit organization that provides technical and educational services to Mississippi businesses, such as technology forecasts and sources of financing.
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Membership Benefits
MMA works hard to protect and promote the interests of all Mississippi manufacturers. The association provides their members with multiple services that include unlimited consultation services and seminars/training.
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Earthcents - Business
Mississippi Power provides many energy saving ideas and services for commercial and industrial customers. By performing a Technical Energy Checkup, Mississippi Power can make efficiency recommendations tailored to each customer.
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EnergyDirect
EnergyDirect is an online tool that enables business customers to have 24-hour access to accounts for billing and usage info. The tool provides graphing and analysis of customer's energy use and alerts and metrics tailored to the customer's business. The tool also provides custom account portfolios and has a benchmarking ability.
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Alternative Energy Suppliers Jobs Tax Credit
This tax credit is for a business engaged in the manufacture or production of alternative energy; 50% of the finished product of the alternative energy project must be derived from resources or products from within the state.
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Industrial Outreach Service
The Industrial Outreach Service offers lean manufacturing, quality services, and manufacturing and operational improvement information to industry in Mississippi.
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Our Services
NMIDA provides extensive information and assistance directly to industry leaders, such as plant location and expansion assistance and information on financial incentives and training opportunity.
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Water Heater Rebate
Customers are eligible to receive a $50 rebate on the purchase of an energy-efficient electric water heater.
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Energy Right Incentives Program - Alabama
The TVA offers the Energy Right Incentives Program to large commercial and industrial facilities. Administrators take a baseline of pre-installation demand and compare it to post-installation measurements to determine the financial incentive amount in kilowatt hour values. The incentives program is offered along with complimentary energy assessments and reviews to determine potential areas for savings.
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Energy Right Incentives Program - Kentucky
The Tennessee Valley Authority offers assessments and recommendations on lighting, HVAC, power quality, power factor, infrared scanning, industrial expansion, and demand-side management.
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Energy Right Incentives Program - Tennessee
TVA offers the Energy Right Incentives Program (CEAI) to large commercial and industrial facilities. Administrators take a baseline of pre-installation demand and compare it to post-installation measurements to determine the financial incentive amount in kilowatt hour values. The incentives program is offered along with complimentary energy assessments and reviews to determine potential areas for savings.
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Generation Partners - Kentucky
Generation Partners supports businesses that install small-scale renewable generating sources (solar panels or wind turbines, for example) on their property. Generation Partners participants defray the cost of their renewable systems and lower their monthly energy bills through the revenue they receive from the sale of the green power.
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Green Power Switch Program
Green Power Switch® is a green power pricing program that provides technical support and incentives for the installation of renewable generation systems.
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Heat Pump Financing
TVA, in conjunction with local utilities, will offer a low-interest loan for the purchase and installation of a heat pump. The loan term is up to 10 years.
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Energy Efficiency Loan Program
The program offers qualifying businesses access to 10-year, 5% interest loans for financing up to 100% of the costs of installing energy-efficient technology, energy retrofits and renewable energy systems. The program is being administered by Pathway Lending.
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Industry Resources
The Tennessee Valley Authority provides support, technology, expertise, and financial resources to existing businesses and industries in the region to help facilitate growth and increase efficiency and profitability. These resources include technical assistance, low-interest loans, and other tools needed by businesses for successful operation.
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Power Analysis
Tennessee Valley Authority power experts analyze industrial energy consumption and help customers use power more efficiently through audits, power studies, and infrared scanning of equipment.
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Comprehensive Services
The utility offers several incentives to help commercial and industrial customers become energy efficient. Incentives include technical analysis, energy audits, and lighting audits.
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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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