In order to promote the implementation of the final plan of the "Clean Power Plan" announced by the US federal government earlier this month, the US government has issued a series of measures to encourage ordinary households to use clean energy and improve the energy efficiency of houses.
The Federal Housing Administration under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will relax financing for household installation of clean energy equipment. After ordinary households obtain financing, they can purchase and install clean energy power generation equipment or related energy efficiency improvement equipment in installments.
The loan office under the US Department of Energy will also add $1 billion in loan guarantees for the development of commercial distributed energy projects such as rooftop solar panels. The U.S. Department of Energy will also provide $24 million in funding for 11 solar projects in 7 states to develop new technologies that improve the efficiency of solar panels.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Energy will jointly launch a project to improve the ability of ordinary households to obtain loans when installing clean energy equipment and energy efficiency equipment. The United States Department of the Interior also approved the construction of a photovoltaic power generation project in California and its corresponding transmission line that day, and its power generation will meet the electricity demand of 145,000 households.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Moniz said at a telephone press conference that day that ordinary households and commercial organizations are now playing an increasing role in promoting the development of clean energy in the United States. In 2014, about half of the newly installed solar capacity came from ordinary households and commercial organizations in the United States. The US government hopes to seize this opportunity to accelerate the development of clean energy in the United States.
The U.S. government announced the final plan of the "Clean Power Plan" on the 3rd, but relevant stakeholders made diametrically opposed voices. The fossil energy industry and politicians who tend to the industry criticized the plan, believing that it will cause a blow to the US economy and the US middle class, and some states have also expressed that they will resist the implementation of the plan.