New Guidebook Outlines Energy Incentives
The Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies recently
published a comprehensive guide of California's energy incentive
programs for businesses, public agencies, nonprofits and residential
energy customers. Power To Your Pocket: The California Consumers
Guide to Resources that Help Pay for Energy Saving Measures and
Renewable Energy Projects covers over 500 incentive programs
administered by California's four investor-owned utilities - gas
and electric, its 36 municipal utilities, and regional, state and
federal program managers.
Author Rhonda Mills said she wrote Power To Your Pocket
to help California energy customers sort through the myriad of direct
assistance and financial incentive programs that support conservation,
self-generation and efficiency management projects. "We were
unable to find a resource that included all of the programs out
there in any one central location," she said. "We published
the guide after months of research and interviews with dozens of
program managers. We hope it helps consumers, decision-makers and
advocates better understand what programs and technologies are being
funded in California and where they can go to get them." The
guide is available in printed or electronic format.
Power To Your Pocket provides program highlights, the type
and level of the incentive, application and criteria information,
and program administrator contact information. A cross-reference
table helps consumers see if they qualify for programs managed by
administrators other than their electric utility.
The guide includes special assistance programs for seniors, low-income
and medically-assisted customers, and programs for businesses, nonprofits,
commercial, agricultural and industrial consumers, cities, schools
and other public agencies. State and federal energy tax credit forms
and information are also included.
Many of the programs offered around the state evolve and have specific
periods of funding. Contact the program managers for complete program
details.
The 300-page Power To Your Pocket is printed in an environmentally
sound manner, on recycled paper with soy-based ink in a union shop.
Power To Your Pocket is also available at http://www.ceert.org.
The Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies can
make electronic copies available (in pdf format) for parties wishing
to distribute or load Power To Your Pocket on their own web
site.
A limited number of printed copies are available. If you would
like copies, contact Rhonda Mills at (310) 558-3800 or rhonda@ceert.org.
Parties are welcome to print additional copies of the guide for
their use or dissemination. Contact Rhonda Mills for permission
and printing criteria.
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