State Renewable Energy: Policies

Energy and Environment Guide to Action: State Policies and Best Practices

EPA's State Energy and Environment Guide to Action offers real-world best practices to help states design and implement policies that reduce emissions associated with electricity generation and energy consumption. The Guide is a comprehensive EPA resource designed to help state officials draw insights from other states' implementation experiences and policy innovations to help meet their own state's climate, environment, and energy goals.

Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE)

DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on the status of state programs and incentives promoting renewable energy, including information on financial incentives and net metering policies, as well as related awareness and investment programs.

Distributed Renewable Energy Finance and Policy Toolkit

The Distributed Renewable Energy Finance and Policy Toolkit describes the many financing options available to state energy offices, municipal governments, and other energy agencies for utilizing public funds for clean energy project support. The report analyzes their strengths and weaknesses and identifies best practices. One key finding is that the use of these tools as a portfolio of approaches creates the most robust, effective programs.

Renewable Energy Certificate Tracking Systems

Because Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) can be sold separately from the underlying electricity, the possibility for fraud can exist unless the RECs are tracked from their point of creation to their final point of use. EPA's Green Power Partnership provides an overview of REC tracking systems, including a map of the regional tracking systems that have been developed in the United States.