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Public-Private Partnerships Fuel American Ingenuity

May 1, 2018 | Q&A with John Carlisle, Director, Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory; Bernard Johnson, Co-founder and CEO, ClearFlame; Ian Hamilton, Founder and CEO, Atlas Energy Systems, LLC; and Justin Whiteley; Chief technology officer and co-founder, Emergy

By the mid-21st century, the world will use twice as much energy as it does today, and the countries that have a reliable and affordable clean energy supply will be the strongest and most secure.

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From the Space Coast to Energy Innovation: The New Frontier for the Southeast’s Economy

May 1, 2018 | Q&A with Mike Aller, Executive Director, Energy Florida and Lynn Abramson, President, Clean Energy Business Network

Florida is the launch pad for America’s aerospace industry. And now, a group called Energy Florida is tapping into the state’s engineering expertise to build out new economic opportunities in energy.

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Small Businesses are the Next Big Thing in Energy Innovation

April 28, 2018 | Q&A with Jen Derstine, Director of Strategy and Policy, Capstone Turbine Corp. and Lynn Abramson, President, Clean Energy Business Network

Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy, making up more than 99 percent of all U.S. firms. They’re also what’s driving our clean energy future.

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TechLink: Tap into Innovation from Defense Department Laboratories

March 29, 2018 | Yvonne Rudman, Industry Liaison, TechLink and Lynn Abramson, President, Clean Energy Business Network

Are you a clean energy business interested in learning more about energy innovations coming out of the Department of Defense?

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Update on Fiscal Year 2018 Appropriations

March 27, 2018 | Lynn Abramson, President, Clean Energy Business Network

Recently 86 CEBN members participated in our fiscal year 2018 appropriations sign-on letter to protect funding for clean energy programs. Congressional leaders have rejected the deep funding cuts proposed in the Administration’s FY 2018 budget request.

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Webinar: Farm Bill Programs for Energy & Rural Development

The United States Department of Agriculture has a wide variety of funding streams designed to promote economic development across the country. The Farm Bill, which reauthorizes these programs once every five years, expires in September 2018, providing…

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Update on Federal Appropriations and Tax

Updated February 9, 2018 │ Lynn Abramson, President & Andy Barnes, Program Manager, Clean Energy Business Network

Since last fall, the federal government has been running on a series of “continuing resolutions,” or short-term funding measures that continue the prior year’s spending levels.  Congress has been passing these incremental measures since Oct. 1, 2017 (when fiscal year 2018 began)—except for a brief government shutdown over one weekend in January.

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How Does New Tax Law Change Expensing for Energy Efficiency Improvements?

January 30, 2018 | Dan Bresette, Alliance to Save Energy; Jeff Moe, Ingersoll Rand; Jared Blum, EPDM Roofing Association

As of 2018, the costs of certain energy efficiency improvements can now be immediately deducted as business expenses rather than recovered more gradually through depreciation. Learn more about the changes in three questions with industry leaders.

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ARPA-E Overview Funding Opportunities and Advice

This CEBN webinar covered the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a federal program that advances high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment.

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Final Action on Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

December 19, 2017 | Lynn Abramson, President, Clean Energy Business Network

Thank you to the nearly 80 CEBN members who signed onto our group letter to conferees on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Congress finalized the conference report on December 15th and voted to send the final legislation to President Trump on December 20.

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A Transformational Year for the Clean Energy Business Network

December 15, 2017 | Lynn Abramson, President, Clean Energy Business Network

Major accomplishments in 2017 and a sneak peek at 2018

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CEBN Outreach to Congress on Energy Provisions in Tax Reform

Nearly 80 CEBN members signed onto a letter to Congressional leaders recommending changes to tax reform legislation in conference related to several energy provisions that were under consideration. Some of these requests were included in the final legislation that Congress passed.

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