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Key Energy Provision
$4.3 billion: Home energy credit to provide an expanded credit to homeowners who make their homes more energy-efficient in 2009 and 2010. Homeowners could recoup 30 percent of the cost up to $1,500 of numerous projects, such as installing energy-efficient windows, doors, furnaces and air conditioners.
Other Energy Provisions
Loans and investments into green energy technology is a significant part of the final bill. Total: $49.7 billion
$11 billion funding for an electric smart grid
$6.3 billion for state and local governments to make investments in energy efficiency
$6 billion for renewable energy and electric transmission technologies loan guarantees
$6 billion for the cleanup of radioactive waste (mostly nuclear power plant sites)
$5 billion for weatherizing modest-income homes
$4.5 billion for the Office of Electricity and Energy Reliability to modernize nationçs electrical grid and smart grid.
$4.5 billion for state and local governments to increase energy efficiency in federal buildings
$3.4 billion for carbon capture experiments
$3.25 billion for the Western Area Power Administration for power transmission system upgrades.
$2.5 billion for energy efficiency research
$2 billion for manufacturing of advanced car battery (traction) systems and components.
$3.2 billion toward Energy Efficency and Conservation Block Grants
$500 million for training of green-collar workers (by the Department of Labor)
$400 million for electric vehicle technologies
$300 million for federal vehicle feets, to cover the cost of acquiring electric vehicles, includiing plug-in hybrid vehicles.
$300 million to buy energy efficient appliances
$300 million for reducing diesel fuel emissions
$300 million for state and local governments to purchase energy efficient vehicles
$250 million to increase energy efficiency in low-income housing
$600 million to cleanup hazardous waste that threaten health and the environment
$200 million to cleanup petroleum leaks from underground storage tanks
$100 million to evaluate and cleanup brownfield land
$400 million for the Geothermal Technologies Program
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