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Montgomery County’s Green Building Tax Credit

Clean Building Incentive Programs
Local Governments
Dramatically upgrades the Maryland county’s existing green building real property tax credit, prioritizing energy reduction in the name of GHG emission reduction in new and existing commercial and multifamily buildings.

SMUD’s Avoided Carbon Metric for Efficiency

Fuel Switching and Building Electrification
Public Utilities
Sacramento Municipal Utility District has changed its energy-efficiency metric from avoided electricity consumption to avoided carbon dioxide emissions, which should incentivize building electrification.

AchiEVe Toolkit

Incentives for EVs and Hydrogen Vehicles
States and State Governments, Local Governments, Public Utilities
Highlights policy options and case studies along the full EV spectrum from vehicle purchase to charging infrastructure to battery recycling.

Los Angeles Residential Cool Roof Ordinance

Cool Roofs
Local Governments
The ordinance requires low-slope roofs to have a minimum three-year solar reflectance of 0.63 and a thermal emittance level of 0.75.  Steep slope roofs must have a minimum three-year solar reflectance level of 0.20 and thermal emittance of 0.75.