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Greenhouse Energy Conservation Strategies: Grants and Loans

 

Grants and loans are available to greenhouse growers to make energy-saving investments.  Below is information on some of those grant and loan programs.  If you have any questions or for more information, please contact the program directly.

Current or recent grant and loan opportunities

Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) offers grants, guaranteed loans, and combined grants and guaranteed loans for:

• the development and construction of renewable energy systems and for energy efficiency improvement projects
• grants for conducting energy audits
• grants for conducting renewable energy development assistance
• grants for conducting renewable energy system feasibility studies
  
  You no longer have to be located in a rural area to qualify.  For more information, contact your state USDA Rural Development Office.

Resources for grant and loan applications

• REAP Application Resources and Templates sponsored by the Environmental Law & Policy Center.
• Small Business P2 Loans by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.  Qualifying projects should eliminate or reduce waste at the business location (source reduction), result in environmentally sound reuse and recycling for the loan applicant's generated wastes, conserve energy or water on-site, or are a qualified agricultural energy production system.
  

Additional resources and links

• Energy Tax Incentives for greenhouse growers, by Stephanie Burnett and Lois Berg Stack.  Reprinted from the April 2007 issue of Greenhouse Grower.

Other Greenhouse Energy Cost Reduction Strategies pages:

• Alternative Energy
• Energy Audits
• Greenhouse Lighting
• Greenhouse Technologies
• Temperature and Scheduling
• Supplemental Materials and Links

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