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Energy Incentive Programs/Financing Alternatives

General

A Guide to Major State Energy Laws This guide briefly summarizes Minnesota's major energy laws over a 20-year period from 1973 through 1993. Somewhat dated, but a good general reference.

America's Business Funding Directory First Select a Funding Type. Your capital request is instantly compared to thousands of lenders and investors. A list of matched "potential" funding sources is returned to you on-line, for Free! Non-profit networks of accredited private investors.

Clean Energy Finance Newsletter News about renewable energy and energy efficiency investment in emerging markets.

Dirty Little Secrets Through powerful lobbying, polluters have carved out special treatment in the tax code. What they do is not illegal, but it is unfair. It is also a disaster for the environment and human health. Dirty Little Secrets offers constructive public policy analysis and recommendations. It exposes 15 of the tax code's most unfair tax breaks and giveaways at a time when the government is searching for money.

Energy Incentives The State of Oregon offers a number of incentive programs for the efficient operation and use of energy by businesses within the state. These programs assist companies to finance energy improvements that will allow for long-term operating efficiencies and economic savings from reduced energy costs.

Energy Partnerships for Affordable Homes The Energy Partnerships for Affordable Homes is a collaboration among the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), State, and local governments, housing and financing industries, and utility companies to make the Nation's public and private housing more energy efficient and affordable. Other program participants include product manufacturers and builders. This program builds on and integrates a number of existing programs at DOE and HUD.

Federal Funding Opportunities Many links to current sources of federal funding.

FinanceNet FinanceNet is the Internet's home for public financial management worldwide. FinanceNet reaches across geopolitical boundaries to link government financial management administrators, educators and taxpayers worldwide to catalyze continuous improvements in the productivity of government personnel and in the stewardship and accountability for taxpayer resources. FinanceNet is also the home for Vice President Gore's new International GovNews Project to provide a new open access to government information and citizen feedback worldwide.

Financing Village Electrification Demand for electricity in industrialized nations, with well-established electric power systems and relatively steady per capita electric consumption, is unlike the increased demand experienced by the developing nations. As rural electrification continues to assume global proportions, the world's population grows. Well into the next century, the axiom that eventual demand outpaces current demand will surely to be true for electrical consumption. Still, there is long term potential for profitable business, only if local economies can afford to pay an asking price above real cost of supply.

Manufacturer Incentives Manufacturers can be influenced to produce energy-efficient products through direct incentives. Direct incentives allow the manufacturers to offer more efficient products for roughly the same price as standard efficiency products.

Resource Efficient Multifamily Housing Services (REMHS) Resource Efficient Multifamily Housing Services (REMHS) is a division of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) devoted to assisting owners and operators of multifamily housing in decreasing utility costs, conserving natural resources, and improving occupant health and comfort.

Sources for Financing for International Ventures The following is a brief and partial listing of US Government,and International Organization sources available for financing international ventures. The intention of this piece is not to provide a comprehensive listing of all possible financing sources but instead to help give some basic direction to people beginning to explore their financing options.

The Energy Project: Incentives for Renewable Energy Resources that Generate Electricity By Matthew H. Brown, Senior Energy Policy Specialist and Barbara Foster, Senior Policy Specialist August 1996.

The Environmental Capital Network (ECN) ECN is a specialized service designed to: (1) provide individual, professional, corporate and institutional investors with a simple tool to find investment opportunities in the rapidly growing universe of companies developing and commercializing environmental and "green" technologies, products and services and (2) assist small and large companies to more efficiently and effectively raise capital.