Richland Energy Services (RES) provides a number of rebates encouraging energy efficiency for its residential customers.  Rebates exist for Energy Star home appliances, HVAC equipment and improvements, and also window and insulation upgrades.  Rebates for insulation upgrades vary according to the prexisting insulation levels present in a home. All work must be performed by an approved contractor to qualify for rebates. For further information or any questions, please visit the program website listed above or contact RES directly.
 

Note: Lodi Electric Utility accepted applications for program year 2015 from January 2 - 30, 2015. The program is fully subscribed for 2015.  

Lodi Electric Utility offers rebates to its residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers who install photovoltaic (PV) systems. The rebate program is funded with approximately $6 million to support systems installed between January 1, 2008 and January 1, 2018. The total amount available for qualified installations in 2015 was $525,000, with $285,000 reserved for residential installations and $240,000 for non-residential installations. The rebate for both residential and non-residential PV systems installed in 2015 was $1.68/watt.

 

South Carolina offers a 100% exemption for all sales tax over $300 for qualifying manufactured homes. The home must either be:

1) A manufactured home that meets or exceeds the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's and the U.S. Department of Energy's energy-saving efficiency requirements;

- OR -

2) A manufactured home that meets or exceeds energy efficiency requirements under the ENERGY STAR program.

In addition, the individual must purchase the home from a retail dealership licensed by the South Carolina Manufactured Housing Board and use the manufactured home in South Carolina. The application for these credits is located here.

Harford County offers a tax credit from real property taxes imposed on residential buildings, nonresidential buildings, or other structures that use solar or geothermal devices for heating, cooling, water heating or generating electricity for on-site consumption. The credit amount is equal to one year of total real property taxes or $2,500 per device, whichever is less. In September 2010 the county added a provision limiting total credits to $5,000 per property per fiscal year. Total real property taxes include all real property taxes that would have been paid by the taxpayer for that year for the host building or structure

Note: The City of Grand Rapids was named No. 16 on the EPA Top 30 governments list for renewables on October 27, 2014. As of 2018, the city's annual power usage from renewable energy resources was 34%. Green power resources include biogas, solar, and wind. Providers are consumer energy and on-site generation.

Grand Rapids Strategic Plan: Health and Environment

The city of Grand Rapids seeks to reduce carbon emissions from city operations, transportation, buildings, and utilities in its 2020-2023 strategic plan. In 2018, 34% of city electricity was supplied by renewable sources, the city aims to increase this proportion to 100%

In January 2006, the City of Grand Rapids approved a resolution detailing the city's sustainability policy for public buildings. The resolution directed city personnel to implement the principles for the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program and the EPA Energy Star and Green Lights programs. Included in this was a specific requirement that all construction and renovation projects involving municipal buildings larger than 10,000 square feet and a cost of $1 million or more receive LEED certification.

Update: Grand Rapids' 2019 strategic plan established goals for renewables, emissions reductions, and energy reductions for public buildings, as well as percentage increases

The Central Iowa Power Cooperative (CIPCO) is a generation and transmission cooperative serving 12 rural electric cooperatives (REC) and one municipal electric cooperative in the state of Iowa. They are:
 

• Clarke Electric Cooperative 
• Consumers Energy Cooperative 
• East-Central Iowa REC 
• Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative
• Farmers Electric Cooperative
• Guthrie REC
• Linn County REC
• Maquoketa Valley Electric Cooperative
• Midland Power Cooperative 
• Pella Cooperative Electric Association 
• Southwest Iowa REC 
• T.I.P. REC
• South Iowa Municipal Electric Cooperative Association (SIMECA)

CIPCOs’ members serve a population of nearly 320,000 rural and urban residents in 58 of Iowa’s 99 counties. Each has established energy efficiency

In 2005 New York City passed a law (Local Law No. 86) making a variety of green building and energy efficiency requirements for municipal buildings and other projects funded with money from the city treasury. The building requirements (described in detail below) apply to new construction, building additions, and substantial reconstructions of existing buildings. Substantial reconstruction is defined as a capital project that involves construction work affecting at least 50% of the floor area or that involves rehabilitation work in at least two of the three major building systems (HVAC, electrical, plumbing). The construction cost values below are

Gulf Power, owned by Southern Company, offers a variety of rebates and programs to make customers' homes more energy efficient through do-it-yourself or professionally installed efficiency measures. Visit the program website or contact the utility for more information.

The City Council of Fort Collins passed a resolution in September 2006 establishing green building goals for new city-owned buildings of 5,000 square feet or more. New buildings must be designed and constructed to achieve US Green Building Council LEED Gold certification, and existing buildings are to use the LEED standard as a guide for sustainable operation and maintenance, though no specific requirements are established.

To control the construction and design costs associated with new buildings meeting this standard, the goal of Gold can be reduced to Silver for projects where the payback period for earning Gold certification is ten