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Delaware Electric Cooperative Green Energy Fund

The Delaware Electric Cooperative offers grants to customers to offset the installed cost of several technologies, including solar thermal, and geothermal. This incentive is part of the Delaware Natural Resources and Environmental Council Green Energy Program, which has provided grant funding to renewable energy projects

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Delaware Renewable Portfolio Standards

Delaware’s Renewable Energy Standards require investor-owned utilities, local governments, and retail electricity suppliers to derive 40% of their energy from renewable sources by 2035. The Renewable Energy Standards Act, found under Title 26, Chapter 1, Subchapter III-A, outlines the statutory details of the renewable energy

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Energize Delaware Green Bond

The Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility (DESEU) was created in 2007 by the state of Delaware and is a nonprofit that implements the Energize Delaware Initiative for commercial, industrial, and other non-residential groups. The initiative offers low-interest commercial loans for renewable energy projects following a feasibility

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Sales and Use Tax Exemption

This sales and use tax exemption applies to solar energy systems and components, as well as equipment used to produce, store, transport, compress, or blend green hydrogen, which can be created using biomass, geothermal, or other renewable energy sources. Chapter 212.08 of Title XIV of

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Florida PACE

The Florida 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. Hundreds of projects qualify, but an example of an eligible improvement for PACE funding is

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Property Tax Abatement for Renewable Energy Property

Florida offers a property tax abatement for renewable energy property, which is defined in Title XIV, Chapter 193.624 of the 2022 Florida Statutes as equipment that collects, transmits, stores, or uses solar energy, wind energy, or energy derived from geothermal deposits. 

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Innovation Incentive Program

Florida’s Innovation Incentive Program, described in Title XIX, Chapter 288.1089 of the 2022 Florida Statutes, describes the eligibility criteria for businesses to receive awards from the state for promoting high-value research and development, innovation, and alternative and renewable energy projects. Housed under the Department of

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Green Colorado Credit Reserve (GCCR)

The Green Colorado Credit Reserve (GCCR) is a loan loss reserve created by the Colorado Energy Office to incentivize private lenders to make commercial loans for capital improvements promoting renewable energy. For each loan made by a participating lender, the GCCR provides a loan loss

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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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Clean Air Program Grants

Senate Bill 22-1933, signed in June 2022, authorizes the Colorado Energy Office to provide grants to eligible applicants to implement industrial and manufacturing emission reduction projects. Eligible facilities may use funds for renewable energy projects, fuel switching, industrial process changes that reduce air pollutants, renewable

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