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Pennsylvania now on fast track to creating green jobs
From PennFuture
Clean Energy Funding (SSHB 1)
Pennsylvania is now firmly on the fast track to creating great, family-sustaining green jobs throughout the Commonwealth. The General Assembly passed a $650 million energy fund, front-loading most of that investment ($500 million) into the first few years. This gives Pennsylvania a national (and international) competitive advantage as we seek to attract more clean energy businesses and jobs that can’t be outsourced.
Pennsylvania now has a major solar program, with $100 million for grants, loans or rebates to consumers for up to 35 percent of the purchase and installation price of solar photovoltaic systems in their residences or small businesses, and another $80 million allocated for grants and loans for solar energy production projects. The reminder of the funding goes to deployment and manufacturing of other clean energy technologies, energy efficient heating and cooling systems, and support of early stage activities and research in clean energy. There are specific allocations of funding for green buildings, geothermal and wind, LIHEAP, alternative energy production tax credits and a home energy efficiency loan program.
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