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Incentives

The South Carolina Energy Office, through the Plan for State Energy Policy, provides a broad range of resources designed to help citizens, businesses, and public entities save energy - and money - through greater efficiency, better information and enhanced environmental quality.

Established in 1954, the nonprofit American Solar Energy Society is the nation’s leading association of solar professionals and grassroots advocates. Its mission is to speed the transition to a sustainable energy economy.

The purpose of the South Carolina Solar Council is to promote wide utilization of solar energy through such means as providing solar energy education, promoting the application of solar energy technologies, and acting as a solar energy technologies expert resource for the people of South Carolina, thereby increasing public awareness of solar technologies and insuring its proper application. Additionally, the organization advocates for net metering and state policies that benefit solar technologies.

The North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) is a volunteer board of renewable energy stakeholder representatives that includes representatives of the solar industry, NABCEP certificants, renewable energy organizations, state policy makers, educational institutions, and the trades. Each member of the board was chosen because of his or her experience and involvement in the solar energy industry.

The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everyone within a generation.

The combined programs of the Solar Rating and Certification Corporation (SRCC) provide: one-time certification, national recognition, product credibility, and standardized comparisons of solar energy products. The SRCC programs serve three primary constituencies: the solar energy industry, solar consumers, and state and federal regulatory bodies. All three constituencies benefit from the SRCC programs by obtaining a national: state-of-the-art rating system, a mechanism to develop consumer confidence, and rational and defensible criteria for tax credit qualification and other solar incentive programs.

The Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technology Program, managed by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy accelerates the development of solar technologies as energy sources for the nation and world. The solar program also educates the public about the value of solar as a secure, reliable, and clean energy choice.

ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.

Founded in 1994 by activist and philanthropist Diane Meyer Simon, Global Green is the American Arm of Green Cross International (GCI), which was created by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to foster a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure future by reconnecting humanity with the environment.

Solar Energy Initiatives, Inc. was formed to execute on a grass roots campaign, “RENEW THE NATION”, to help redeploy a portion of the U.S. work force and focus on reducing the world’s dependence on fossil fuels by selling solar thermal and photovoltaic (PV) technologies, while building a profitable company.

enerG is North America's leading publication about the alternative energy industry. From wind to solar to geothermal to biomass-and more-enerG covers the entire spectrum of alternative energy. With stories from across North America, enerG provides extensive coverage of what is probably the fastest growing industry in the world today.

Upstate Forever promotes sensible growth and the protection of special places in the Upstate region of South Carolina. The membership-based, nonprofit organization covers ten counties (Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg, and Union), and we have three main programs: Land Trust, Sustainable Communities, and Clean Air and Water.