Scale for ClimateTech, supported by NYSERDA, aims to help cleantech startups overcome manufacturing obstacles keeping their products from fulfilling untapped market demands. To do so, the Scale for ClimateTech program will help New York entrepreneurs partner with manufacturers and scale up locally made products that
Oregon’s Department of Energy provides grants to finance up to 75% of energy assessment costs for farms, ranches, and rural small businesses. Energy assessments must be performed by an approved assessor.
This grant program, administered by the State Commission on Environmental Quality, seeks to assist the deployment of new technologies that reduce emissions from facilities and other stationary sources in Texas. The program prioritizes projects that use solar, wind, or other renewable energy sources. Grants given
Businesses, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, non-profits, and municipalities undertaking renewable energy or energy efficiency projects are eligible to receive funding through the Vermont Economic Development Authority’s Commercial Energy Loan Program. Loans are available up to $6 million with the variable rate option and $500,000
Wyoming allows municipalities to create Energy Improvements Areas in which to offer PACE financing. Property owners in these areas can receive loans for energy efficiency or renewable energy projects. Loans are repaid through special property assessment over a period of years.
Arizona’s Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff requires that regulated electric utilities and electric power cooperatives serving retail customers in Arizona generate 15% of their energy from renewable resources, including several renewable thermal technologies, by 2025. This standard was adopted in 2006 and took effect in
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) enables property owners to finance improvements to their property. DC PACE allows property owners to access financing for qualifying energy efficiency and clean energy improvements on their buildings and repay the investment through a special tax assessment. This arrangement spreads
This is a competitive grant program administered by the Iowa Economic Development Authority. Projects must provide some benefit to Iowa ratepayers and aid one of the key focus areas of the Iowa Energy Plan, two of which are biomass conversion and electric grid modernization. Those
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center administers the IncubateMass program to provide funding to Massachusetts incubators to grow the clean energy innovation ecosystem and commercialize clean-tech startups. Grants are up to $175,000 per year and support building out infrastructure, equipment purchases, networking events, growing strategic clusters, and
Michigan’s Renewable Energy Standard requires utilities, electric cooperatives, municipal electric utilities and alternative retail suppliers to derive 60% of retail energy sales from renewable sources and 100% of retail electricity sales from clean energy sources by 2040. Eligible technologies include geothermal, solar thermal, biomass; biogas,
