Renewable Energy

This page shows all of the pages at www.epa.gov that are tagged with Renewable Energy.
  • Renewable Energy in Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory

    This page provides some resources to help organizations expand their GHG accounting practices, including corporate green house gas inventory and how renewable energy relates to corporate inventory.

  • Green Power Market Documents

    EPA’s Green Power Partnership provides a variety of guidance documents relevant to understanding the green power market.

  • Financing

    This page describes the various financing options and strategies available to build a renewable energy project.

  • Proposals & Solicitations

    TThis page provides resource to help understand the contract development process and best practices in standardizing contract templates and request for proposals (RFPs).

  • Policies and Regulations

    This page describes the patchwork of federal, state, and local policies and regulations pertaining to renewable energy systems that impact project development.

  • U.S. Renewable Electricity Market

    The US green energy market is broken up into two main groups: the mandatory markets including state Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) and voluntary markets, also referred to as green power markets.  This page delineates this two markets.

  • On-Site Project Development Process

    Most on-site renewable energy projects follow a common project development pathway from a project's conception to its completion. This page outlines the major steps you will take along your pathway. Each step includes various resources and tools to assist

  • Tools

    EPA’s Green Power Partnership provides a variety of tools relevant to understanding the green power market,

  • Site Considerations

    This page describes the importance of assessing a potential site for a renewable electricity project including the site’s technical, economic, policy, and other variables.

  • Renewable Energy Project Development Toolbox

    Searchable directory contains 100s of resources to understand the issues throughout the renewable energy project development process.

  • Summary of Inflation Reduction Act provisions related to renewable energy

    The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) is the most significant climate legislation in U.S. history. IRA's provisions will finance green power, lower costs through tax credits, reduce emissions, and advance environmental justice.

  • Energy Resources for State, Local, and Tribal Governments

    Hosts capacity building and decision-support tools and data, best practice policy and program implementation information for state, local, and tribal governments on climate change, electrification, equity, energy efficiency, and renewable energy.

  • Greening Tribal Casinos

    Tribally owned or operated gaming facilities have many opportunities to implement green building and operations. Environmental improvements can save money and have lasting environmental and social impacts for the Tribe and for facility visitors.

  • Urban Waters Strategic Framework

    U.S. EPA’s approach on how it will achieve EPA Administrator vision to protect and restore America’s urban waters and reconnect communities, to their urban water environments.

  • California Clean Air Technology Initiative

    The California Clean Air Technology Initiative is a partnership to develop clean air technologies for the San Joaquin Valley and South Coast Air Basins through collaborative projects in technology research, development, demonstration, and deployment.

  • Power Sector Evolution

    This webpage describes the changes in the power sector over time in the United States.

  • Federal Green Challenge (FGC)

    Information and resources about EPA’s Federal Green Challenge which advances greening of government facilities and operations.

  • Glossary

    Throughout this web area and the Green Power Partnership web area, there are terms used to explain policies and actions in the green power market. EPA has created this glossary of terms to help users understand green power market terminology.

  • Webinar Series

    SRP hosts a series of free webinars that discuss the different types of reuse that are possible and share how particular Superfund sites have become reuse success stories.

  • Estimating the Public Health Benefits of Clean Energy: Using EPA’s COBRA Web Edition and Public Health Benefits per kWh Values Webinar

    This hour-long webinar provided an overview of EPA’s new web version of COBRA and the second edition of EPA’s Public Health Benefits per Kilowatt-hour (BPK) values for energy efficiency and renewable energy.