Through this program, small businesses, institutions, and local governments in Minnesota can receive no-cost recommendations on how to increase energy and water efficiency and cut operating costs. The recommendations come from assessments conducted by retired, experienced professionals funded by the MCPA.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency offers zero-interest loans to Minnesota small businesses for capital expenditures helping the company comply with or exceed environmental regulations, including those regulating emissions of greenhouse gasses and other pollutants. Recipients must employ less than 100 employees and report less than
Minnesota requires investor-owned utilities, electric cooperatives, municipal power agencies, and power districts to have at least 20% of retail electricity sales generated or procured from eligible renewable sources (including solar PV, wind, hydroelectric, green hydrogen, landfill gas, RNG, landfill gas, and wastewater) by 2020 and 25%
Under Mississippi law, businesses that have moved or expanded in the state, investing more than $50 million and creating at least 250 jobs in the process, and that produce or assemble components of clean energy systems, can apply to the Mississippi Development Authority to be
Facilities in Mississippi using biomass or solar energy and receiving more than $100 million of capital investment can apply to their County Board of Supervisors to be exempted from up to 50% of their property tax.
Missouri Property Assessed Clean Energy Program (PACE) financing helps property owners in the state make investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy of all kinds. To repay the loan, property owners make fixed-rate payments as part of their annual property tax bill on terms up
Under Montana property tax, properties that produce renewable energy and began construction after June 1, 2007, are taxed at 3% of their market value.
This incentive program reimburses facilities in Minnesota producing advanced biofuels, defined as fuels produced from non-food, non-feed, sustainably-grown feedstocks and agricultural wastes and reducing greenhouse gas emissions at least 50% compared to fossil-based alternatives, among other requirements. Facilities must have expanded or begun production after
This incentive program reimburses facilities in Minnesota producing heat or electricity from combustion, gasification, or anaerobic digestion using cellulosic biomass feedstocks. To qualify, facilities must have begun energy production before June 30, 2025, produce 250 million MMBtu every quarter, and source biomass from sustainable agriculture,
MCPA partners with private financial institutions to provide low-interest financing to businesses and political subdivisions of the state to fund the capital costs of environmental projects, including those reducing pollution. While many businesses and projects are eligible for loans, the MPCA prioritizes small- and medium-sized
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