{"id":231993,"date":"2010-01-26T14:39:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T19:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildaroo.com\/news\/?p=5605"},"modified":"2010-01-26T14:39:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T19:39:59","slug":"california-announces-huge-incentive-for-solar-hot-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/231993","title":{"rendered":"California Announces Huge Incentive for Solar Hot Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\nclass=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5606\" title=\"solar thermal\" src=\"http:\/\/buildaroo.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/solarthermal.jpg\" alt=\"solar thermal\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The California Public Utilities Commission has announced a nearly statewide <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cpuc.ca.gov\/puc\/energy\/solar\/swh.htm\">financial incentive for solar hot water<\/a> that will bring down costs for most utility customers by 51% to 60%, into a 3 year payback period.  Customers of California&#8217;s three largest utilities can now get a 30% rebate for <a\ntitle=\"Solar thermal solar hot water manufacturers\" href=\"http:\/\/buildaroo.com\/news\/topic\/building-products\/clean-energy-building-products\/solar\/solar-thermal\/\" >solar hot water<\/a>. If they add the rebate to the new 30% Federal tax credit, they are saving 60%. The credit cap for apartment owners is set at $500,000, and the credit cap for commercial buildings is $250,000. \u00a0This will significantly help California reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, since it is estimated that buildings who install solar hot water reduce natural gas use by 25% to 90%.<\/p>\n<p>via <a\ntitle=\"california statewide financial incentive solar hot water\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/01\/22\/california-regulators-trip-tipping-point-for-solar-hot-water\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+cleantechnica\/com+(CleanTechnica)&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" >Cleantechnica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Public Utilities Commission has announced a nearly statewide financial incentive for solar hot water that will bring down costs for most utility customers by 51% to 60%, into a 3 year payback period. Customers of California&#8217;s three largest utilities can now get a 30% rebate for solar hot water. If they add the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}