Funding Wizard

Residential Rebates:
If its time to purchase a new refrigerator, dishwasher, clothes washer or water heater, Lassen MUD offers rebates for the purchase and installation of EnergyStar® appliances and energy efficient electric water heaters. Depending on the age of your old appliances, you could realize significant savings. Just by replacing your 10 year old refrigerator with and EnergyStar® compliant model you could reduce your energy bill by $63 a year! To see exactly how much energy you could save click on the EnergyStar refrigerator replacement calculator.

Heating and Cooling:
Heating and cooling accounts for the majority of energy used in your home, choosing an efficient heating and cooling system can save hundreds of dollars a year. Lassen MUD offers a variety of rebate programs on several types of systems.

Residential Lighting Rebates:
Did you know that by replacing your existing incandescent light bulbs with energy efficient LEDs you can reduce the cost of lighting your home by 25% or more? In addition to the savings, you may also be eligible for rebates from Lassen MUD to offset the cost of replacement

Do you want to help save energy, water, and receive a rebate?

The City offers rebates to help you reduce energy and water use in your home when you purchase ENERGY STAR and WATERSENSE qualified appliances.

For more information about these programs, call 805-875-8018 or send us an e-mail at rebate@esgroupllc.com. Please provide your name, mailing address, and telephone number to request more information.

MID offers residential and commercial customers rebates for buying and installing qualifying energy efficient products. Minimum qualifications must be met. General program restrictions and product specific requirements and limitations are listed in the rebate catalog for each program.

MVU energy efficiency programs for both residential and commercial customers achieve energy saving, reduce customer bills, support economic development, reduce generation resource requirements and lessen environmental impacts.

Energy Rebates:

The City of Palo Alto (CPAU) offers rebates on home appliances and systems that can increase your home's energy efficiency, help reduce your utility bills as well as improve the comfort of your home.

Water Rebates:

CPAU Partners with Valley Water to deliver rebates for energy efficient landscaping upgrades as well as products and projects that reduce stormwater runoff and conserve water.

City of Palo Alto Utilities is offering incentives for their residential, commercial and industrial customers to install solar water heating systems on their homes and facilities. Incentives are based on the estimated energy savings.  Single-family residential incentives are capped at $2,719 for gas-displacing systems and $1,834 for electricity or propane-displacing systems. Commercial systems are capped at $100,000.

Through the Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize, DOE aims to fund organizations for ongoing and/or proposed activities related to climate and clean energy that support, build trust, and strengthen relationships and partnerships with disadvantaged communities. Specifically, this prize seeks to enable and enhance business and technology incubation, acceleration, and other community-based and university-based entrepreneurship and innovation in climate and clean energy technologies.

Up to 10 organizations will share a total prize pool of up to $2.5 million.

The goals of the Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize are to:

• Enable clean energy and climate innovation, and entrepreneurship programming and capabilities at colleges and universities that serve large populations of students underrepresented in STEM, Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), community colleges, and undergraduate institutions.
• Create or increase participation in clean energy and climate-smart job training and job placement/hiring, including programs that target participation from disadvantaged communities, including formerly incarcerated individuals and youth transitioning out of foster care. Workforce training could cover identifying energy efficiencies and greenhouse gas inventories, renewable energy manufacturing, and deployment.
• Foster grassroots innovation related to just and equitable clean energy deployment through activities focusing on community-centric networks and bottom-up solutions for sustainable development, based on the needs of the communities involved
• Identify and fund activities that will help disadvantaged communities become aware of, apply into or otherwise secure DOE funding or other federal, state, local government or private (for-profit or nonprofit) funding, in support of the government’s Justice40 goals.
• Enable the development of replicable clean energy transitions that deliver just and equitable benefits to disadvantaged communities in support of the government’s Justice40 goals.

Important Dates

• Prize Opens: September 2021
• Prize Closes: 5 p.m. ET on February 25, 2022
• Phase One Winner Announcement & Awards: March 2022 (anticipated)
• Phase Two Begins: March 2023 (anticipated)

The purpose of this solicitation is to fund a design-build competition that will challenge multi-disciplinary project teams to design and build a mixed-use development – using cutting-edge energy technologies, tools and construction practices - that is affordable, equitable, emissions-free and resilient to climate change impacts and extreme weather events.

Deadline to Submit:

• Concept Application Abstracts: April 9, 2021 - 5PM PDT
• Full Applications for the Design Phase: July 28, 2021 - 5PM PDT
• Application Materials for the Build Phase: June 23, 2023 - 5PM PDT

The goal of this funding opportunity is to produce solutions and/or strategies that minimize the adverse impacts of solar energy on wildlife and maximize the ecosystem benefits while enabling the rapid deployment of ground-mounted solar energy. SETO is interested in projects that will produce results with broad relevance to solar stakeholders by establishing methods, technologies, models, best management practices, and/or resources that facilitate solar energy’s pivotal role in achieving a 100% clean electricity system by 2035 and a net-zero energy system by 2050. Successful projects will produce research results that are generalizable to multiple sites, pertinent to multiple stakeholder groups, impactful in a short timeframe (i.e., 3 years or less), and engage local communities most affected by solar energy deployment.