Funding & Incentives
Funding and incentives includes many ways to finance green technology, environmental sustainability, environmental research, and facility retrofits for energy efficiency. Cleantech funding also can be in the form of incentives, for example, through environmental grants and awards.
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Manufacturing Tax Credit, Natural Gas Drilling, Ener1 Chapter 11, Tier 3 Emissions
The White House has released more details about the manufacturing efficiency incentives that President Obama announced in his State of ...
Mercer Plans Steam Turbine for German Plant
Pulp company Mercer International Inc. has announced a project to increase production and efficiency through initiatives including the installation of ...
Higher Gas Prices: Ethanol Subsidy Expiration Could be to Blame
The expiration of ethanol subsidies from the federal government last month may already be driving up gas prices at the pump, according to AutoblogGreen.
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Stop & Shop Nabs $4m in Incentives for Lighting and ECMs
Stop & Shop has cut costs and received over $4 million in utility incentives through use of efficient lighting and electronically-commutated motors (ECMs) ...
CDP to Intensity Environmental Accounting Work After $1.5m Prize Win
The Carbon Disclosure Project will expand its work to set accounting standards for environmental disclosure, after winning the $1.5 million Zayed Future Energy Prize in ...
Renewables Briefing: SunPower, CEI, Sound Solar, Matinee, CHP in Cambridge, Perdue and Fibrowatt
Matinee Energy Inc. has broken ground on a 120MW solar power plant planned for Benson, Ariz. WEIS GmbH Consortium from Germany supplied project partners for ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: RFS2 2012, Keystone XL, SolarWorld, Aviation Carbon Tax
The EPA finalized the Renewable Fuel Standard program (RFS2) 2012 percentage standards for four fuel categories as part of the annual renewable fuel volume ...
Geothermal Industry Plans 5,745 MW, Billions in Investments
The U.S. geothermal industry will start 2012 with billions in planned investments, according to Leslie Blodgett of the Geothermal Energy Association.
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Stimulus Funding for Georgia Convenience Stores Lighting Retrofit Project
The Georgia Association of Convenience Stores (GACS) lighting retrofit fund has retrofitted more than 30 convenience store locations across the state. The group is one ...
FedEx to Fund Transportation Projects in Mexico, Brazil, India
FedEx will provide $1.4 million over two years to EMBARQ - the World Resources Institute’s sustainable transport arm - to provide technical expertise on sustainable ...
Google, KKR Invest in 88 MW of Solar PV Facilities in Sacramento District
Google and global investment firm KKR have made a significant investment into a portfolio of solar ...
Minnesota Retrofits to Save $3m a Year
Energy efficiency improvements across 36 facilities in Minnesota will generate more than $3 million in permanent, ongoing energy savings every year for the foreseeable future, ...
Predictions for Cleantech in 2012
As we close out 2011, let's look towards what the new year may have in store for cleantech.
There are eggshells across ...
EV Briefing: Frito-Lay Adds Smith Electric Trucks; Ram 1500 PHEV; IKEA, Kohl's Work with ECOtality
PepsiCo's Frito-Lay North America will roll out eight new electric trucks in the Boston area, bringing the company's all-electric trucks fleet up to 176 vehicles ...
Making the Financial Case for Green Initiatives
For many green executives the biggest barrier to the adoption of sustainability initiatives remains the reluctance of financial directors to approve ...
Microsoft: Cloud Computing Can Cut Emissions by 30% or More
Information Communication Technology (ICT) equipment and services are estimated to double their global carbon emissions to 4 percent of global electricity consumption by 2020, taking ...
Up to Half of Solar Costs are Administrative, DOE Says
Between 40 and 50 percent of the cost of ownership and operation for a rooftop solar system is contributed by administrative costs such as ...
Frito-Lay Asks Town for $600k to Aid Water Efficiency, Automation
Frito-Lay is asking the town of Vancouver, Wash., for $585,000 in water bill credits over three years, to enable its local plant to make ...
Lighting Briefing: Millard and Groom, Carmanah, Platinum, Lightolier and Tyree
Refrigerated warehousing and distribution services company Millard and commercial energy project firm Groom Energy have completed the installation of an LED lighting retrofit at Millard's Allentown, ...
$4bn for Energy Efficiency Announced; Walgreens, Kohl’s, Nissan Commit to Upgrades
3M, Alcoa, GE, Kohl's, Nissan, Supervalu, Walgreens and dozens of other organizations joined President Obama and former president Bill Clinton today in announcing ...
