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ecoENERGY for
Renewable Heat
Natural Resources
CanadaRenewable and
Electrical Energy Division615
Booth Street, Room 150,
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E9email:
ecoenergyrhp@nrcan.gc.ca1
-800-O-Canada (1 800 622-
6232)
ecoENERGY for Renewable Heat will invest $36 million
over four years to: increase the use of renewable thermal
energy; help develop renewable thermal energy industry
capacity; and contribute to cleaner air by displacing fossil
fuel-based energy use for space heating and cooling, and
water heating in Canadian buildings. ecoENERGY for
Renewable Heat will offer an incentive to purchasers of
solar heating systems in the industrial, commercial and
institutional sectors. The incentive will be set at 25
percent of the purchase, installation and certain other
costs of a qualifying system.
Incentive $ Federal
Industrial,
commercial,
institutional
www.ecoaction.gc
.ca/heat
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ecoENERGY for
Renewable
Power
Accelerated
Capital Cost
Allowance for
Efficient and
Renewable
Energy
Generation
Equipment
Natural Resources
CanadaRenewable and
Electrical Energy Division580
Booth Street, 11th
FloorOttawa, Ontario K1A
0E4e-mail:
ecoenergyrp@nrcan.gc.ca
Phone (business inquiries
only): 1-877-722-6600
Canada Revenue Agency
Ted Harris
Resources Industry Section
1-800-O-Canada (1 800 622-
6232)
ecoENERGY for Renewable Power will invest $1.48
billion to increase Canada’s supply of clean electricity
from renewable sources such as wind, biomass, lowimpact
hydro, geothermal, solar photovoltaic and ocean
energy. It will encourage the production of 14.3 terawatt
hours of new electricity from renewable energy sources.
ecoENERGY for Renewable Power will provide an
incentive of one cent per kilowatt-hour for up to 10 years
to eligible low-impact, renewable electricity projects
constructed over the next four years, April 1, 2007 to
March 31, 2011.
This program provides an accelerated rate of write-off (50
%/year, on a declining balance basis) investments in the
production of heat for industrial process or electricity by
using fossil fuel efficiently or by using renewable energy
sources.
Incentive $ Federal
Incentive/ Tax
Rebate
$ Federal
Utilities,
Commercial,
Institutional,
Municipalities,
and
Organizations
Industrial,
Manufacturing,
Mining,
Petroleum/
petrochemicals,
commercial
http://www.ecoacti
on.gc.ca/ecoener
gyecoenergie/power
-electricite/indexeng.cfm
www.laws.justice.
gc.ca/en/notice/in
dex.html?redirect
=%2Fen%2FI-
3.3%2FC.R.C.-
c.945%2F138555
.html
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Canada
Renewable and
Conservation
Expense
Canada Revenue Agency
Ted Harris
Resources Industry Section
T 613 957 2114
The Canadian Renewable and Conservation Expense
(CRCE) promotes the development of energy
conservation and renewable and alternative energy
projects, by allowing investors to fully write-off certain,
mostly intangible, costs, such as feasibility and resource
assessment studies, associated with investments in
renewable energy and energy conservation projects.
Incentive/
Tax Rebate
$ Federal
Industrial,
Manufacturing,
Mining,
Petroleum/
petrochemicals
www.oee.nrcan.g
c.ca/industrial/fina
ncialassistance/taxincentives.cfm
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Excise Tax
Exemption For
Ethanol And
Methanol
Canada Revenue Agency
Bill Gray
Excise Taxes & Special
Levies
T 613 941-1933
This program encourages the development and
marketing of ethanol and methanol made from biomass
through the exemption from the excise tax for ethanol and
methanol made from biomass when it is blended with
gasoline or diesel fuel.
Incentive/
Tax Rebate
$ Federal
Industrial,
Manufacturing,
Chemicals,
Transportation
www.craarc.gc.ca/E/pub/et
/etsl47/etsl47-
e.html
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