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
Delaware C-PACE offers low-interest loans to commercial, industrial, agricultural, nonprofit, and multifamily property owners for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Loan amounts can range between $30,000 and $2,000,000 per project. For a property owner to take advantage of this program, the county in which
Kansas’s Renewable Energy Goal is a voluntary Renewable Portfolio Standard. Investor-owned utilities and electric cooperatives can strive to generate or purchase 20% of the affected utility peak demand, based on the average demand of the preceding three years, from eligible renewable resources.
The Maine Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) program allows owners of eligible commercial and industrial buildings to finance up to 100% of their renewable energy and other sustainability improvements. Qualifying properties must be real commercial properties that do not have residential mortgages, are not
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
Local governments in New Hampshire can offer local property tax exemptions for renewable generation facilities and energy storage systems. The exemption amount is determined by the assessed value of the system.
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.
The program offers low-interest loans for state, public school, college, university, and non-profit hospital facilities for retrofit projects that reduce energy consumption, peak energy demand, or utility costs, including through implementation of renewable thermal energy. The borrowed amount is repaid overtime with energy cost savings.
Washington requires Investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, rural electric cooperatives, and public utility districts to derive 100% of retail electricity sales from renewable resources by 2045. By 2030, all obligated utilities must be greenhouse gas neutral, either through renewable energy use or carbon offset measures. Utilities
