Rebates

Similar to Maryland's Local Option Property Tax Credit for Renewable Energy, Title 9 of Maryland's property tax code creates an optional property tax credit for high performance buildings. This statute allows counties and municipalities to provide a credit against the property tax for buildings which achieve at least a silver rating according to the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED standards, residential structures that achieve a silver rating under the International Code Council's National Green Building Standard (NGBS), or structures which meet other comparable green building ratings or guidelines approved by the State. The provision specifically adding the NGBS (as

Lease financing administered by the Department of Treasury provides funding for energy efficiency projects in state facilities operated by state agencies, authorities and institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Energy Leasing Program allows for the purchase of services and equipment required to develop, design, and install an energy efficiency project. Agencies can finance energy projects at a minimum of $100,000 and will make repayments over 12 or 15 year terms.

The funds can be used to finance projects with relevant energy efficient technology, such as lighting and motor efficiency upgrades, building envelope enhancements, distribution system improvements, and energy management

Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) §46-19.6 requires each county agency that issues building, construction, or development-related permits to establish a procedure for priority processing of permit applications for construction projects incorporating energy and environmental design building standards. The priority processing will be provided at no additional cost.

Buildings eligible for priority processing are those that meet the "energy and environmental design building standards". These standards can be achieved by earning either a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver rating, a two Green Globes rating, or a comparable state-approved, nationally recognized, and consensus-based guideline, standard, or system.

For further information, contact

Walton Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) is an electric cooperative that serves 100,000 customers in ten northeastern Georgia counties.
Walton EMC has partnered with GEMC Federal Credit Union to offer the HomePlus Loan to make energy efficiency upgrades more affordable for residential customers. Customers with good utility payment record, credit application, credit report and property title can receive prime rate financing for the installation of weatherization measures.

Visit the program website for more information.

 

Central Georgia Electric Member Corporation (CGEMC) offers rebates for residential customers to increase the energy efficiency of existing homes or to build new energy efficient homes. Call CGEMC directly to verify rebate availability.

City of Ashland Conservation Division has zero-interest loans to help its residential customers finance energy efficiency improvements to homes. The maximum loan amount is $7,500. The loans can be used for a variety of energy saving projects, including solar water heaters and weatherization measures. To be eligible, homes must be owner-occupied and heat with electricity from the City of Ashland. Contact the City of Ashland for more information on this program.

Lumbee River Electric Membership Corporation (LREMC) offers low interest loans through the ElecTel Cooperative Federal Credit Union to help residential members increase the energy efficiency of homes. Loans up to $35,000 are available for the purchase and installation of:

• Efficient windows and doors
• Heating and cooling units (heat pumps, gas packs, a/c units)
• Generators
• Solar projects
• Water heaters (electric, solar, gas)
• Insulation
• Energy Star Appliances
• Weatherization efforts
  

For detailed program information, see ElecTel's website. Energy Efficient loans are primarily available to residential dwelling property owners only.  This may include single family residences, duplexes, and owner-occupied condominiums.

Clay Electric Cooperative (CEC), a Touchstone Energy Cooperative, covers 14 North Florida counties, including Gainesville, Keystone Heights, Lake City, Orange Park, Palatka, and Salt Springs. It offers loans to help customers finance energy efficiency improvements for participating homes. Customers can borrow up to $10,000 for various energy-efficiency improvements. A $25 loan processing fee will be assessed on all applications. Visit the program website for more information.

Residential customers of Cape Light Compact, National Grid, Eversource, Unitil, and municipal electric customers served by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts or Liberty Utilities may be eligible for zero-interest financing to help increase the energy efficiency of their homes through the Mass Save HEAT Loan Program. This financing is available to all residential customers who own and reside in a one to four-family residence, obtain a Home Energy Assessment through the Mass Save Program, and install the recommended energy efficiency improvements.

The loans are available up to $50,000 (depending on utility) with terms of up to seven years.  Energy efficiency improvements eligible for

Focus on Energy provides information, financial assistance, technical assistance and other services to residents, businesses, schools, institutions and local governments on energy efficiency and renewable energy*. Financial assistance takes the form of rebates, grants and loans. The program was initially created by Act 9 of 1999 as a public benefit fund (PBF), which also provided energy assistance programs for low-income residents (the Home Energy Plus Program). 

Each electric and natural gas investor-owned utility is required to spend 1.2% of the latest 3-year average of its gross operating revenue on energy-efficiency programs and renewable-resource programs. With WPSC approval, a utility