Provides direct loans to automotive or component manufacturers for reequipping, expanding, or establishing manufacturing facilities in the U.S. that produce fuel-efficient advanced technology vehicles.
Provides loan guarantees to rural businesses or agricultural producers for renewable energy systems or energy efficiency improvements.
Nearly $22 billion available for loan guarantees to accelerate the commercial deployment of innovative energy technology.
Provides mortgage financing to apartment buildings and cooperative for the retrofitting of U.S. rental housing stock to become more energy- and water-efficient.
In 2015, Executive Order 13693 put in place specific sustainability and energy efficiency goals in federal purchasing decisions. It was revoked in 2018 by EO 13834.
Explained that many federal agencies have sufficient statutory authority to create technology inducement prizes with existing funds and spending authorizations.
Under which patent applications for green technologies received expedited treatment through the patenting process.
Surveys the incentive that the patent system provides to invest in energy innovation, and the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Pilot Program for Green Technologies.