A business establishing a new wind power facility in Illinois that is not located in an Enterprise Zone* may be eligible for designation as a "High Impact Business" (HIB). After receiving the designation, the facility is entitled to a full exemption of the state sales tax (6.25%) and any additional local state sales taxes (up to an additional 3.5%) for building materials incorporated into the facility. The project must involve a minimum of a $12 million investment creating 500 full-time jobs or an investment of $30 million causing the retention of 1,500 full-time jobs.

A wind power facility must be

Through the Focus-On-Energy program We Energies offers a variety of prescriptive and custom incentives for agriculture customers. This program offers facility assessments, whole building tune-ups, retro commissioning, incentives for renewable energy, and a wide range of prescriptive and custom incentives. See the program website for full details. 

Current Municipal codes provide some solar access protections to adjacent properties. Mostly in relation to new development proposals.

17.65.080.A.3.B - Maximum Floor Area Ratio

Regards the maximum floor area ratio regulation for the city of Oakland. It specifies the conditions for a conditional use permit for an FAR or up to 3.0 in the HBX-3 and HBX-4 zones. Including that “the additional Floor Area Ratio does not significantly decrease the solar access of existing adjacent single family homes or duplexes to a degree greater than would be created if the facility were built according to the base FAR.”

17.134.050.F.1 –

The Massachusetts Offers Rebates for Electric Vehicles (MOR-EV) program issues rebates to drivers of electric vehicles. The MOR-EV Trucks Program aims to increase the use of electric trucks in the state of Massachusetts so as to reduce air pollution emissions. Purchases or leases of battery-electric and fuel cell vehicles that cost less than $2 million and have a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of more than 10,000 pounds are eligible to receive a rebate. Rebates are based on gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) and decline as rebate blocks are filled.

10,001 - 14,000 GVWR: $15,000

14,001 - 16,000 GVWR: $30,000

Vermont Gas Systems offers a number of equipment lease options giving customers the option to convert existing heat system equipment or add new hot water heater equipment. Click here for a list of full leasing incentives for water heaters and heating technology.

The Clean Energy Standard (CES) was created to assist in reaching Massachusetts’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals adopted pursuant to the Climate Protection and Green Economy Act. The CES requires retail electricity sellers to demonstrate on an annual basis the use of clean energy for the generation of specific electricity sale percentages.

Clean Generation Resources

The CES allows two types of clean generation resources, those from existing units and those from new units. Clean existing generation refers to existing nuclear and hydroelectric generating units that have a capacity of more than 30 MW, started operations before 2011, and are