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Illinois Shines – Building Our Solar Future Welcome to Illinois Shines Building our solar future Solar and Illinois Shines Benefits Illinois Shines ensures that together, we can all play a role in our clean energy future and supports the State’s renewable and clean energy targets.
Renewable energy as defined in Illinois law includes solar, wind, hydropower in certain circumstances, anaerobic digestion, and crops and untreated and unadulterated organic waste biomass. Clean energy as defined in Illinois law is energy generation that is 90% or greater free of carbon dioxide emissions. In Illinois, some energies qualify as clean energy but not as renewable energy.
Illinois targets include: 40% of energy from renewable sources by 2030 50% of energy from renewable sources by 2040 100% of energy from clean sources by 2050 Ready to learn more? See the Introduction to Illinois Shines: Solar Basics and More resource! The Benefits of Solar and Illinois Shines More consumers, businesses, schools, and communities are choosing solar because of its many benefits .
As solar technology costs decrease and incentives increase, customers may be able to lower utility bills by generating their own electricity or subscribing to a community solar project. Replacing fossil fuels and traditional power plants with clean, renewable solar energy reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, helps fight climate change, and contributes to a healthy environment.
With hundreds of solar companies operating in the state to manufacture, sell, install, and service solar systems, solar generates enormous economic activity for Illinois.
Though customers can “go solar” on their own, Illinois Shines provides substantial, additional benefits including : Financial incentives you may receive Approval and compliance monitoring of Approved Vendors Educational resources and consumer protection support Equity opportunities for contractors, workforce, and your community Ways to Participate in Illinois Shines Illinois Shines provides incentives to solar vendors to develop different types of projects, which can be passed on to customers.
Illinois Shines helps you find approved solar vendors, understand which project type might be right for you, and understand the financial considerations of these options. Illinois Shines provides incentives for solar projects through the purchase of Renewable Energy Credits, or RECs. To learn more about RECs, visit Solar and Illinois Shines Basics .
To learn more about Distributed Generation and Community Solar in Illinois Shines, and how to consider which project type, vendor, and financial options may be right for you, visit Exploring Solar. Distributed Generation (DG) Distributed Generation refers to a variety of technologies that generate electricity at or near where it will be used, such as solar panels.
Solar photovoltaic (PV) projects are one of the most common types of Distributed Generation; PV solar panels can be installed directly on the roof or land of a home, property, school, business, or other structure.
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EPA is seeking insightful, expert, and cost-effective applications from eligible applicants to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program’s non-federal partners with technical analysis and programmatic evaluation support related to water quality modeling and monitoring and spatial systems to manage, analyze, and map environmental data. The project assists the partners in meeting their restoration and protection goals and in increasing the transfer of scientific understanding to the Chesapeake Bay Program modeling, monitoring, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) activities. The recipient will support modeling, monitoring, and GIS programs needed to explain and communicate the health of and changes in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-R3-CBP-23-18. Assistance Listing: 66.466. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ENV. Award Amount: Up to $5.3M per award.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA SBIR Phase I Solicitation invites small businesses to submit proposals for projects addressing critical environmental challenges. Awards are for six months to demonstrate proof of concept. Key focus areas include Clean and Safe Water, Air Quality and Climate, Homeland Security, Circular Economy/Sustainable Materials, and Safer Chemicals.
Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program (CCGP) is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Community Change Grants Program funds projects that provide meaningful improvements to the environmental, climate, and resilience conditions affecting disadvantaged communities. While broadly focused on environmental and climate justice, projects can include aspects that relate to community health and well-being through addressing environmental health risks. The program aims to fund community-driven pollution and climate resiliency solutions and strengthen communities' decision-making power. Applications are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.