The Arkansas PACE Program allows counties and cities to establish property assessed clean energy districts. In these districts, property owners can borrow money to finance energy improvements and pay the borrowed money back, typically through property taxes, with a special property assessment.
Connecticut has implemented Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) as a financing program that allows Connecticut building owners to access cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable energy, as well as financing for resiliency and Zero-Emission Vehicle Refueling Infrastructure. This program is only available in participating municipalities.
Utilities, independent renewable energy producers, and utility developers of renewable energy projects can apply to the Idaho Energy Resources Authority’s Clean Energy Project Bond Program for financing for a broad range of clean energy projects.
Communities in Massachusetts that achieve Green Community status are provided with education, network support, financial incentives, and technical support from the Department of Energy Resources. To achieve Green Community status, localities have to meet several criteria regarding permitting regulations, policies about new construction energy life-cycle
Agricultural entities can claim a tax exemption up to 100% from real and personal property taxes for biomass gasification and methane digester property. Equipment must be certified by the Michigan Department of Agriculture. The facility must also allow at least two universities to collect data
Under North Carolina’s Program to Finance Energy Improvement, local governments can create a revolving loan program to finance the purchase and installation of renewable energy projects affixed to residential, commercial, or other real property. The charged interest rate on loans may not exceed 8% per
New Mexico offers alternative energy product manufacturers a tax credit for up to 5% of qualified expenditures for manufacturing equipment used in a manufacturing operation that produces alternative energy products. To be eligible, manufacturers must employ one full-time employee for every $500,000 of expenditures for
Oklahoma requires that planning and construction for state buildings uses standards that conserve energy and optimize energy performance. Design and construction must reduce dependence on imported sources of energy through energy efficiency, local energy sources, and renewable energy sources.
Rhode Island allows municipalities the option to offer property tax exemptions for qualifying solar thermal, geothermal, biogas, and biomass systems.
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
