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In Focus: Los Angeles Solar Rebates and Tax Credits

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Solar power in Los Angeles makes perfect sense: on average, the city is blessed with over 3,000 hours of sunshine every year. LA also offers solar rebates and other incentives to help encourage homeowners and businesses to invest in solar panels. The program is a little complicated, and LA rolled out revised solar rebates last [...]

LEED Certification: Top 5 Credits

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The decision to apply for LEED Certificationis both exciting and daunting for designers and managers. Having your building recognized by the USGBC is a badge of honor in the design and construction industry, but it also means more planning, measuring and upfront costs. What’s more, a simple “LEED Certified” designation no longer holds the same [...]

More Free Credits for Cap and Trade in California?

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California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering a plan to give out extra carbon credits to businesses affected by the state’s cap-and-trade program, reports The Sacramento Bee. The state’s program sets industry-wide limits on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, allowing those that exceed those limits to use carbon credits to offset anything above those levels. It [...]

In Focus: Solar Rebates in Australia

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The government in Australia has made it very easy to participate in the renewable energy boom and add solar power to your home or business. Australia has made a commitment to achieve 20 percent renewable energy in the nation by 2020. To do that, homeowners and business owners alike can add solar power to their [...]

In Focus: Renewable Energy Credits

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Sometimes it pays to be bad; Bonnie and Clyde, Jesse James, and Al Capone wouldn’t have been famous otherwise. However, when it comes to stealing from the environment, that’s not always the case. In fact, thanks to renewable energy credits, it is just the opposite. Renewable energy credits, or REC, are an energy market innovation [...]

2012 Massachusetts Solar Rebate Changes

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Massachusetts announced changes to the Commonwealth Solar Rebate program going forward.  Specifically, these changes will go in effect for Block 9 and 10 of the program for the first half of 2012. MAJOR CHANGES: – More Funding = More Rebates for Solar Projects The next two installments of the program will each have a $1.5 [...]

New Incentives for India’s Solar Equipment Manufacturers

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India’s renewable energy ministry plans to introduce more fiscal incentives to boost local manufacturing of solar power equipment, a senior ministry official said Thursday. The incentives will be for a designated year during which investment by companies in the solar sector reaches a certain threshold that’s yet to be decided, A.N. Srivastava, director of the [...]