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Nevada Stops Subsidizing Net Metering

Green Building Law Update

In the final days of 2015, Nevada became the front line in the looming nationwide fight over energy policy when the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada altered rates for net metering impacting homeowners with rooftop photovoltaic panels. But the retail rate is at an actual loss to the monopoly utility. It is not good energy policy.

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Pennsylvania is First State to offer Tax Credit for Passive House

Green Building Law Update

Pennsylvania is the first state to offer tax credits for low income Passive House building. Applications submitted under the PennHOMES and low income housing tax credit program are scored and ranked in accordance with a numerical criteria. No points are available for LEED projects.

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Model Sustainability and Green Building Initiatives for a More Verdant City and Town

Green Building Law Update

Bill 9-14 would require that 50% of the County''s electric power usage be supplied with renewable energy by Fiscal Year 2015 and 100% by 2020. Appreciate also that Montgomery County, situated just north of Washington, DC, is the 11th wealthiest county, by household income, in the country.

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Oklahoma Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Additionally, the engineer hired receives a tax credit of $5,000 per year until January 1, 2015. . Legislation enacted in 2013 extends the one-time income tax credit for investments in qualified clean burning motor vehicle property from 2015 to 2020 and is effective November1, 2013. Clean Burning Fuel Vehicle Credit 
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North Dakota Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Agriculture Partnership in Assisting Community Expansion (Ag PACE): This program has been established to buy down the interest rate on loans to farmers who are investing in other nontraditional agriculture activities to supplement farm income. The total buy down amount per borrower may not exceed $20,000 per project or biennium.

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The Strawtegi CO2ttage in Salt Lake City

Natural Building

In 2015, 150 natural builders from all over the world gathered to demonstrate their skills, new projects, and emerging technologies. Armed with motivation from the Colloquium, Susan Klinker began dreaming of large scale naturally built planned urban developments with a range of housing types to suit buyers of all ages and income levels.

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North Dakota Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Agricultural Products Utilization Commission (APUC): The mission of APUC is to create wealth and jobs though the development of new and expanded uses of North Dakota’s agricultural products. of assessed value if: construction of the wind turbine is completed after June 30, 2006, and before January 1, 2015, or.