The “Local Government Challenge” is a large grant that is broken down into several smaller challenges based on the size and type of government applying: Energy Innovation Challenge Grants, Small Government Leadership Grants, and Tribal Government Challenge.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has a multi-sectoral cap-and-trade system that requires businesses to purchase allowances equivalent to their emissions, incentivizing mitigation and the uptake of renewable thermal solutions. The program is designed to contribute to the state’s goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
The Colorado Clean Energy Fund is a specialized, nonprofit intermediary developed as a three-year collaboration between the Colorado Energy Office, the Department of Energy, and the Coalition for Green Capital. The creation of the Fund was announced by Governor John Hickenlooper, with initial funding coming
This program helps improve commercial buildings by financing energy efficiency measures and renewable energy systems. Authorized by Section 29.55.100 of the Alaska Statutes, which allows local governments to create and manage C-PACE programs, financing may be granted for products and devices that provide thermal energy,
The Emerging Energy Technology Fund (EETF) provides grants for energy demonstration projects, testing of emerging energy technologies, and deployment of existing technologies that have previously not yet been demonstrated in Alaska. Eligible technologies include those that reduce negative environmental effects, such as renewable energy or
This program provides nonrefundable income tax credits to incentivize the use of solar energy devices in commercial, industrial, and other non-residential applications in Arizona, generally equal to 10% of the installation costs. Arizona Revised Statute 41-1510.01 lays out that solar thermal, solar PV, energy storage
Arizona does not tax energy efficiency components, renewable energy equipment, and combined heat and power systems as property. Arizona Revised Statute 42-11054, which details this exemption, specifies that renewable energy equipment includes equipment used to produce energy primarily for on-site consumption from renewable resources, including
Section 41-1514.02 of the Arizona Revised Statutes sets up an environmental technology assistance program under the state Department of Commerce to expand businesses’ ability to produce solar and other renewable energy products.
This is a property tax exclusion for the installation of active solar energy systems. This differs from an exemption in that the addition of the system’s value to that of the real property is never assessed in the first place. The solar energy system can
While this is a general tax exemption for properties that deal with electric power, the inclusion of “storage of electric power” indicates that thermal storage systems that generate heat from electricity could also receive the exemption.
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