Renewable Electrification

Colorado Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE)

The Colorado 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 improvements. Eligible improvements include fuel cells, geothermal systems, solar thermal systems, and waste heat recovery, among others. Eligible properties

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Alaska Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE)

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,

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Emerging Energy Technology Fund (EETF)

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

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Property Tax Exemption

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

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Corporate Renewable Energy Tax Credit

This tax credit applies to investments in new renewable energy facilities that produce energy for self-consumption, so long as the power is used primarily by international operations centers. Arizona Revised Statute 43-1164.05 describes the eligibility requirements for this tax credit program and the eligible types

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Environmental Technology Assistance

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.

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Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff

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

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Building Decarbonization Report

This law mandates that the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) identify, before December 31, 2023, all available state and federal financing or investment solutions pertaining to the decarbonization of buildings through renewable electrification. The Commission is tasked with consulting with stakeholders

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Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC)

The Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) was established in 2011 and augmented in 2022 with an additional $1 billion in funding to last through 2030. The program expedites the development and demonstration of technologies that increase resilience and decarbonize California’s electric grid and energy use.

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Climate Innovation Program

This program, added to California’s 2022-2023 budget, offers a total of $525 million to fund technological advancements that will help meet GHG reduction goals and increase climate resilience. “Clean energy generation and storage” is referenced in a non-exhaustive list of example technologies, and there is

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