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The Tax Incentives Assistance Project (TIAP), sponsored by a coalition of public interest nonprofit groups, government agencies, and other organizations in the energy efficiency field, is designed to give consumers and businesses information they need to make use of the federal income tax incentives for energy efficient products and technologies.

Consumer Incentives

Home Shell: Insulation, Windows, Sealing

Homeowners can get credits for energy improvements to their homes, such as windows, insulation, and envelope and duct sealing.

Home Heating & Cooling Equipment

Homeowners can get credits for installing efficient air conditioners and heat pumps; gas or oil furnaces and furnace fans; and gas, oil, or electric heat pump water heaters in new or existing homes.

Passenger Vehicles

Credits are available to buyers of hybrid gasoline-electric, diesel, battery-electric, alternative fuel, and fuel cell vehicles.

On-Site Renewables

Credits are available for qualified solar water heating and photovoltaic systems, small wind and geothermal heat pump systems.

Fuel Cells and Microturbines

Credits are available to homeowners and businesses who install qualifying systems. Fuel cells are an advanced technology to generate electricity at the site of use, but they are expensive for commercial buildings and are not widely available for homes.

TIAP Flyers for Residential and Commercial Incentives - Add your organization's logo and distribute at your next event to spread the word about energy efficiency incentives.
 
EERE Financial Opportunities
Financial opportunities and solicitations for business, industry, and universities from DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).
  • SunShot Incubator Program - Soft Cost Reduction
    Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0000607
    Funding Organization: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
    Open Date: 2011-11-15
    Close Date: 2012-03-05
    Funds Available:
    Description:

    DOE is supporting the development of tools and approaches that will reduce balance of system non-hardware costs for solar energy systems. These soft costs—expenses associated with permitting, financing, interconnection, and inspection—can account for approximately half of the total expense of photovoltaic installations.

    As part of the SunShot Incubator program, this funding opportunity is designed to help small businesses and entrepreneurs develop data-driven tools, innovative programs, and streamlined processes that will make solar more accessible for Americans. This solicitation builds on the Incubator program's proven success with photovoltaic technologies to begin targeting market barriers. By addressing all sectors of the solar energy economy, the SunShot Initiative works to reduce the total installed cost of photovoltaic systems.

  • SunShot Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development
    Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0000595
    Funding Organization: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
    Open Date: 2011-10-25
    Close Date: 2012-02-07
    Funds Available:
    Description:

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) seeks to fund revolutionary applied scientific research that develops highly disruptive Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technologies that will meet 6 cents per kWh cost target by the end of the decade. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for SunShot Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development intends to support research into technologies that have the potential for much higher efficiency, lower cost, and/or more reliable performance than existing commercial and near-commercial CSP systems and their expected incremental progress in future years.

    As part of the SunShot Initiative, this applied research program is intended to demonstrate and prove new concepts in the collector, receiver, and power cycle subsystems, including associated hardware and manufacturing processes. These developments should lead to subsequent system integration, engineering scale-up, and eventual commercial production for electricity generation applications. The SunShot CSP program is designed to look beyond incremental near-term innovation and explore transformative concepts with the potential to break through performance barriers as known today, such as efficiency and temperature limitations. These goals support the mission of the DOE SunShot Initiative.

    There are four topics to which an application may be submitted under this FOA:

    • Topic 1: Advanced Collectors
    • Topic 2: Advanced Receivers
    • Topic 3: Advanced Power Cycles
    • Topic 4: Seedling CSP Concepts