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
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency offers zero-interest loans to Minnesota small businesses to help comply with or exceed environmental regulations, including those regulating emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. Recipients must employ less than 100 employees and report less than $500,000 in yearly after-tax
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
Investor-owned utilities and rural distribution cooperatives must source 40% of total retail sales from renewable energy resources by 2025 and 50% by 2030. This standard increases to 80% by 2040 for investor-owned utilities, then to 100% of retail sales to be generated by zero-carbon resources
The Ohio Air Quality Development Authority (OAQDA) administers the Clean Air Improvement Program. The program provides financing for pollution control projects, energy efficiency projects, and renewable energy projects through bond financing. The OAQDA is also authorized to approve tax exemptions up to 100% on tangible
Rhode Island offers manufacturers and residential buildings a property tax exemption up to 100% for qualifying solar thermal, geothermal, biogas, and biomass systems.
The Clean Energy Development Fund provides funding for renewable energy and energy efficiency measures. Eligible recipients include agricultural entities, businesses, non-profits, institutions, and industrial entities. There is a wide range of qualifying renewable energy technologies.
Wisconsin offers a sales and use tax exemption for up to 100% of the taxpayer’s liability from renewable energy products. Eligible renewable energy products must create electricity or heat from biomass, wind energy, solar energy, and biogas among other renewable energy sources.
