Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Solar panels for homes, provided with public financing

[Jerome Garciano (jlgebox-04]

For those interested in financing solar panels, consider the federal tax
credits in Internal Revenue Code §§25D and 48.
Individual taxpayers are allowed a Code §25D tax credit for expenditures for
qualified solar electric property . A tax credit is allowed for 30% of the
qualified solar electric property  expenditures made by the taxpayer during
the tax year.  Qualified expenditures are expenditures for property that use
solar energy to generate electricity for use in a U.S. dwelling unit that is
the taxpayer's residence.  Solar water heating property is also a qualified
expenditure. The property must be placed in service before January 1, 2017.
Code §48 allows a similar 30% investment credit to taxpayer owners who are
set up as businesses.

Jerome Garciano
Boston, MA


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Thomas Lofft <tlofft [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

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> This is a great story about a green initiative, started in California,
> Berkeley, of course,
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> and being copied by entrepreneurs into Boulder, CO.
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> Quick Summary: The city finances the cost of adding solar panels to the
> home and pays the costs from a public muni-bond which is prorated to the
> respective properties and added to the annual tax bill for 20 years.  CA
> state legislature, reportedly, has passed enabling legislatioin for every CA
> municipality to do likewise.
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> http://www.grist.org/article/2009-05-08-berkeley-solar-financing
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> I think cohousing advocates could push for every state legislature to copy
> the model.
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> Thanks for reading.
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> Tom Lofft
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> Liberty Village, MD
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