Free online training to help you improve the energy performance of your organization. No travel, no lost time out of the office, and no cost — EPA makes it easy to get the information you need today. Join your colleagues to better understand how EPA can help you lower operating costs, improve your energy management program, and expand your professional development.
Industry specific information available for: Government, Healthcare, Higher Education, Hospitality/ Entertainment, Industrial, K-12, Real Estate/ Multifamily, Retail, Small Business, Congregations, Service & Products Providers, Utilities & Energy Efficiency Program Sponsors and Water/Wastewater UtilitiesForeign Trade ZonesTwo zones in metro Denver--one near Stapleton and one near DIA--allow manufacturers using imported parts to expedite customs and reduce or eliminate some fees or tariffs. Businesses can also apply to create a zone of their own.
Job Creation Performance Incentive Fund & Enhanced IncentiveProvides a performance-based incentive payment to qualifying companies that have created net new jobs paying above average wages. The program is designed to support and encourage new business development, business expansions and relocations that have generated new jobs throughout the state.
Performance ContractingState of Colorado's business contracting model which uses utility savings to pay for renewable energy and/or energy efficiency building upgrades/retrofits.
DsireUSAIncentives for Renewables and Efficiency
Solar Energy Industries AssociationSolar tax credit information
Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data CenterColorado incentives for using Alternative Fuel Vehicles. Includes the Petroleum Reduction Planning tool to help fleets, consumers, and business owners create a strategy to reduce conventional fuel use in fleet and personal vehicles. Your business could also help station decision making by adding your green fleet information for the
Station LocatorXcel Energy Business RebatesRebates for replacing or updating your cooling system, increasing efficiency in your compressed air system, choosing energy-efficiency measures that exceed standard options but aren’t covered under the standard energy conservation programs, energy audits of your facility, free consultation, computer modeling and verification of measures, for new buildings, additions and/or major renovations; purchase and installation of automated building controls that lower a facility’s coincident demand during peak (workday) hours or provide energy savings during off-peak periods, purchasing and installing energy-efficient lighting equipment in new construction facilities, motor efficiency, recommissioning...Small and medium sized businesses can also request an energy efficiency
workshop.
Denver Water
Denver Water offers several
rebates for qualifying commercial customers using select commercial, industrial and institutional equipment. Denver Water offers incentive contracts for both
indoor and
outdoor water-saving projects to help offset the cost of installing or upgrading equipment and landscape. Projects could encompass a variety of ideas, such as eliminating single-pass cooling, modifying a building’s cooling tower, planting low-water-use plants and replacing inefficient irrigation systems. Contact
conservation@denverwater.org for details about this program. Denver Water also offers free water-use audits. Call 303-628-6009 to schedule an audit.
Tax Deductions for Commercial BuildingsA tax deduction of up to $1.80 per square foot is available to owners or designers of new or existing commercial buildings that save at least 50% of the heating and cooling energy of a building that meets ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2001. Partial deductions of up to $.60 per square foot can be taken for measures affecting any one of three building systems: the building envelope, lighting, or heating and cooling systems. These tax deductions are available for systems “placed in service” from January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2013.
Other
tax credits (including ARRA and energy-related) from IRS information
centerFREE Energy Audits from CSU Students for ManufacturersCSU students can provide FREE energy audits for manufacturers. Led by Professor Mike Kostrzewa, the audit team consists of undergraduate mechanical engineering students, most with about a year or so of energy auditing experience. We spend one day at a plant to tour the facility and the production process, brainstorm for recommendations, and collect data to support those recommendations. We then prepare a report that includes the energy savings, cost savings, and implementation costs associated with all recommendations that have a payback of less than about three years. Over the nearly 24 years that this program has been at CSU, about 50% of our recommendations have been implemented by our 622 customers. To qualify, a plant needs to spend at least $100,000/yr in energy bills. We ask for copies of the last 12 months electric and gas bills in advance of the scheduled site visit so we can do a baseline analysis. More Information: Visit
link or contact Mike Kostrzewa at
michael@engr.colostate.edu.
Denver Business AdvisorsA free public service created to assist emerging businesses as they navigate the challenges of small business ownership (legal matters, finance, accounting, management, sales, marketing). Requirements for application: Colorado-based company in business for at least 3 consecutive years, annual sales exceeding $1 million, primary shareholder acts as managing principal and DBA will make final determination of eligibility.
ARRA funds to be administered by the
Governor's Energy Office (be sure to sign up for e-newsletter updates on funding opportunities). For other ARRA fund-tracking websites, please visit my Stimulus Funding
post.
