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Financial Incentives for Installation of Distributed Energy Resources

MCLI Recommendation: “Federal, state, and local governments should provide financial incentives for various renewable resources.”

LPDD Recommendation: “In addition to statewide mandates for DG renewable resources, state legislatures should mandate energy storage or provide incentives for utilities and consumers to provide energy storage for grid-connected solar PV.”

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Example States and State Governments

California AB 1637

AB 1637 authorized the Public Utility Commission to double the budget for the Self-Generation Incentive Program for the next three years, an additional $249 million for small-scale distributed energy ...
Example Private Entities

Maine’s Distributed Generation Procurement Program

Maine’s P.L. 2019 c. 478 and Chapter 312 of the PUC rules require the PUC to undertake a series of procurements of DG projects to meet statutory targets for distributed renewable projects. Customers m...
Example States and State Governments

NY SUN

NY SUN is the consolidated umbrella for New York solar incentives for homes, businesses, and communities. The program was re-launched in 2014 with a goal of supporting 3.175 GW of installed capacity b...
Example Local Governments

Colorado Springs Renewable Energy Program

Colorado Springs Renewable Energy Program offers rebates of $0.25 per watt for solar systems, and up to 40% of total system costs could be covered by rebates and tax credits.
Example States and State Governments

NYS Clean Heat Program

Through the NYS Clean Heat program, electric utility companies offer rebates on both air and ground source heat pumps. Heat pumps are a more efficient heating and cooling option that eliminate fossil ...
Example States and State Governments

Illinois’ Solar for All Program

Illinois’ Solar for All program, created by Illinois’s 2017 Future Energy Jobs Act, provides solar power to qualifying residents with no upfront cost, while guaranteeing them at least 50% savings on t...
Example States and State Governments

California Solar Initiative

The California Solar Initiative (2007-16) offered different incentive levels to residential solar customers of the state’s three major investor utilities, based on the performance of their solar panel...
Example Local Governments

Georgetown TX renewable energy incentives

Georgetown, TX’s Code of Ordinances (2012) offers multiple incentives for renewable energy, including rebates for the installation and purchasing of equipment needed to install solar systems. Rebates ...
Example Public Utilities

Mississippi’s Upfront Distributed Solar Incentive

The Mississippi Public Service Commission has approved a new net metering rule creating a $3,500 incentive for residents who install rooftop solar, per a July 2022 order. According to the new rule, at...
Example States and State Governments

Maine’s LD 1766

Maine’s LD 1766 “An Act To Transform Maine’s Heat Pump Market To Advance Economic Security and Climate Objectives,” establishes the Heating Fuels Efficiency and Weatherization Fund, which has the goal...
Resource States and State Governments

EPA’s Clean Energy Finance Tool

EPA’s Clean Energy Finance Tool is an Excel Tool designed to help municipalities and states make informed choices about the best program(s) for their jurisdictions from among the following options: re...
Example Local Governments

San Francisco’s solar incentives

San Francisco’s Environment Code (2017) offers a series of incentives for residential installation of solar panels, including a rebate up to $500.00 per kWh. If the panels are installed by an individu...
Resource States and State Governments

EDF Report, Encouraging the Development of Distributed Energy Resources in Texas

A Sept. 2020 report from Environmental Defense Fund outlines the actions Texas legislators, regulators and local decision makers can take to spur investment in and adoption of clean, distributed energ...
Example States and State Governments

Illinois’ Future Energy Jobs Act

Illinois’ 2017 Future Energy Jobs Act calls for updates to Illinois’ renewable portfolio standards, net metering, and energy efficiency standards, as well as a new zero emissions credits plan. Under t...
Example States and State Governments

California AB 2868

California’s AB 2868 (2016) encouraged investor-owned utilities to develop up to 500 MW of storage (in addition to the existing 1325 MW storage mandate), of which up to 25% may be behind-the-meter.
Example Local Governments

Milwaukee Shines

Milwaukee Shines is a program for affordable financing to purchase solar panels, which coordinates group buys of renewable energy generation systems, and provides other cost reducing incentives.
Resource Local Governments

Annapolis, MD Clean Energy Loan Program

The Annapolis Clean Energy Program finances and encourages energy efficiency projects and renewable energy projects with an electric generating capacity of not more than one hundred kilowatts. On the ...
Resource Congress

Proposed CLEAN Future Act (2020)

The proposed Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act (2020) is a large, economy-wide climate bill released by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Among ...
Resource Public Utilities

Arizona Residential Battery Storage Program

In Sept. 2020, the Arizona Corporation Commission approved the state’s first residential battery storage program — an incentive pilot proposed in August by the Arizona Public Service Company. The Ariz...
Example States and State Governments

Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) program

The Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) program incorporates an Energy Shared Storage Adder to a more traditional renewable incentive program. Solar projects that participate are eligible to ...
Resource Executive Branch

Green Tax Incentive Compendium

Robinson and Cole, a large law firm with offices across the United States, maintains and annually updated Green Tax Incentive Compendium, which collects federal and state tax incentives for renewable ...
Example Public Utilities

Hawaiian Electric’s Customer Self-Supply Program

Hawaiian Electric’s Customer Self-Supply Program provides expedited review and approval for rooftop solar systems, coupled with advanced inverters and storage, that do not export power onto the grid.
Example Public Utilities

New York Clean Heat and Building Efficiency Funding

In January 2020, the New York State Public Service Commission has approved a set of energy efficiency and electric heat pump targets to reduce energy consumption in New York. The Order established a t...