Utah
Clean Green Power Program
The City of St. George offers green power blocks of energy for sale in 100 kilowatt-hour blocks.
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Net Metering Policy
The city will pay $2,000 per kWh up to 10 kWh for commercial customers who install solar paneling.
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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 Efficiency Rebates
Rebates offered on air-to-air and hybrid heat pumps.
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Energy Audit
Commercial and residential customers are eligible to receive energy audits at their homes or office buildings. Audits identify areas that could be more energy efficient and produce suggested improvement recommendations.
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Energy Efficiency Credits (Rebates)
Empire Electric passes on Energy Efficiency Credits or cash rebates to its consumers from Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association. The rebate must be requested within 180 days of installation and is available for new or replacement electric water heaters, lighting, new electric motors, and new or replacement controlled electric resistance heating units.
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Net Metering
Empire Electric Association offers net metering for customers with distributed generation capabilities.
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Commercial & Industrial Lighting Incentive Program
Incentives offered to commercial and industrial customers who want to install energy efficient lighting. Pre-approval is required.
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ENERGY STAR® Commercial Appliance Incentive
ENERGY STAR® commercial appliances are eligible for a financial incentive program.
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Water Heater Rebate
Rebates range from $75 for a 40-gallon water heater to $225 for a 71-gallon (or greater) water heater.
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Heat & Air Rebate
Rebates are available to customers who install energy efficient Air to Air or Ground Service units.
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Rebates for Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs
Mount Wheeler Power, Inc. offers rebates for the purchase of compact fluorescent light bulbs.
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Rebates for Energy-Efficient Appliances
Mount Wheeler Power, Inc. has rebates available for the purchase of ENERGY STAR® rated appliances.
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Direct Contact Gas Water Heaters
Questar offers rebates for natural gas-based water heaters with a thermal efficiency greater than 90%. The rebate is calculated at $1.10 per kBtu/hr input.
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Gas Boiler Outside Air Reset Controls
Questar offers $250 rebates for the installation of hard-wired natural gas boiler control installations.
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High-Efficiency Clothes Washer Rebates
Questar Gas offers rebates for high efficiency clothes washers that meet certain efficiency standards.
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High-Efficiency Gas Boilers
Rebates are set at $2 to $3.25 per kBtu/hr input.
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High-Efficiency Gas Clothes Dryer Rebates
Questar Gas offers rebates for natural gas powered clothes dryers.
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High-Efficiency Gas Furnaces
Rebates are available for natural gas furnaces with AFUE 90% or greater. Rebates range from $200 to $400.
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High-Efficiency Gas Unit Heaters
Rebates are available for natural gas unit heaters with thermal efficiency of greater than 90%. Rebates range from $1.25 to $6.00 per kBtu/hr input.
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High-Efficiency Storage Gas Water Heaters
Equipment Eligibility & Rebate Level: Rebates are available for natural gas storage water heaters that meet or exceed the efficiency requirements. Rebates are $2 per hourly input of 1,000 British thermal units (commonly known as Btu).
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Infrared Gas Heating Systems
This rebate program applies to commercial customers that install natural gas-fired infrared-heating systems. The rebate amount is $5 per kBtu/hr-input.
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Low-Flow Pre-Rinse Spray Valves
Rebates of $25 are available to commercial customers that install low-flow, pre-rinse spray valves that use less than 1.6 gallons per minute.
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Programmable Thermostat
A $25 rebate is available to commercial customers who install programmable thermostats in their office buildings.
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Agricultural Irrigation Pump Incentives
Rocky Mountain Power offers rebates for energy-efficient irrigation pumps.
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Agricultural Motors Incentives
Rocky Mountain Power offers financial incentives for the purchase of energy-efficient agricultural motors.
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Cool Keeper Program
Rocky Mountain Power commercial customers in Utah are eligible to receive a free Cool Keeper Web-Programmable Thermostat or Cool Keeper Digital Cycling Unit.
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Dairy/Farm Equipment Incentives
Rocky Mountain Power offers rebates and engineering services to develop energy-efficient dairy and farm processes and equipment.
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Efficiency Programs & Incentives
Through the wattsmart program, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming can access several rebate programs and other incentives to help reduce energy costs and save money.
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Energy Exchange
Energy Exchange is a voluntary load-reduction program designed for customers with at least one megawatt of connected load. Customers in the program are contacted to reduce their usage at certain times due to power supply issues. In turn, the utility will pay the company money for its reduced energy use.
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Energy FinAnswer- New Facilities & Major Renovations
The utility performs a detailed energy analysis and then awards rebates according to the predicted amount of energy saved. An incentive agreement is signed prior to the customer purchasing the products in question.
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Energy FinAnswer- Retrofit Projects
The utility is offering technical assistance and financial incentives to commercial and industrial customers wishing to make energy efficient retro fits. The rate of rebate is $0.12 per kWh annual savings plus $50 per kW average monthly demand reduction, capped at 50% of construction costs.
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Energy Profiler Online
The Energy Profiler Online tool allows customers to assess a variety of information about their electricity usage and determine savings.
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FinAnswer® Express
The FinAnswer Express program includes incentives and technical expertise for lighting, motors, HVAC and other equipment upgrades that increase electric energy efficiency and exceed code requirements.
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PowerForward
In order to conserve energy on "high power" days, the PowerForward program informs Utah businesses when to use less power. Participants qualify for financial incentives.
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Recommissioning Program
The utility provides a complete energy audit of a facility to identify ways to make existing systems more energy efficient. The auditor will also make suggestions for upgrading equipment that is eligible for rebates.
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Self-Direction Credit Program
This program is targeted to large commercial and industrial customers in Utah. The utility enables those customers to fund projects at their facilities to reduce energy consumption. Once these systems are implemented, customers will receive a credit on their utility bills that will offset the Customer Efficiency Service Charge.
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Small Commercial FinAnswer Express
The FinAnswer Express program includes incentives and technical expertise for lighting, motors, HVAC, and other equipment upgrades that increase electric energy efficiency and exceed code requirements.
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Tools & Resources
Rocky Mountain Power provides a variety of tools and resources to assist business customers in saving energy and money.
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Water Distribution Equipment Incentives
Rocky Mountain Power offers financial incentives for energy-efficient water distribution equipment or upgrades.
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Southwest Energy Efficiency Project
The Southwest Energy Efficiency Project offers Arizona businesses tools and resources to help increase their energy efficiency.
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Southwest Energy Efficiency Project - Nevada
The Southwest Energy Efficiency Project offers Nevada businesses tools and resources to help increase their energy efficiency.
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Utah Energy Efficiency Guide
This online resource is a guide for how to make Utah businesses energy efficient. This resource also provides an overview of energy efficiency, common energy-inefficient equipment, and where to find financial assistance programs.
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Industrial Assessment Center (IAC): Oregon State Unversity
Small and medium-sized manufacturers who meet Oregon State University requirements are eligible receive a free energy assessment within about 150 miles of its campus.
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U.S. Department of Energy Industrial Assessment Center (IAC): Colorado State University
The Colorado State University IAC provides free plant assessments and recommendations within about 150 miles of its campus for improved energy efficient operations. These services are offered to the following states: Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
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Commercial Production Tax Credit
This tax credit is available to business owners that generate more than 660 kW of renewable energy. The credit is set at $0.0035 per kWh of produced energy within the first four years of operation.
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Renewable Energy Sales and Use Tax Exemption
The Utah Sales and Use Tax Exemption for Energy Related Equipment and Machinery exempts the purchase or lease of equipment used to produce renewable energy from sales tax.
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Solar and Geothermal Business Tax Credit
Commercial and industrial owners are eligible for the Solar and Geothermal Business Tax Credit, which is a 10% annual corporate tax credit (up to $50,000).
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State Energy Program Grant
Grants are available to Utah businesses that teach other Utah businesses, organizations, or residents about energy efficiency and conservation.
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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 uses biodiesel fuels in their business vehicles are eligible for a tax credit.
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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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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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