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| NHSaves Rebates & Services | Your NHSaves® utility partners offer a wide variety of rebates on the products and technologies that help New Hampshire residents save energy and money. | NHSaves | MORE INFORMATION |
| ENERGY STAR certified products | From energy-saving appliances to green building practices, ENERGY STAR empowers individuals and organizations to reduce their carbon footprint while saving money. Join the movement towards a greener future by discovering the benefits of ENERGY STAR certification and learning how you can make a difference, one energy-efficient choice at a time. Visit the website today and embark on your journey towards a more sustainable tomorrow. | Energy Star | MORE INFORMATION |
| How to Read Your Energy Bill (E-Course) | If you have looked at your electric bill and been thwarted by the acronymns and costs per somethings, this eCourse can help. We walk you through a demo energy bill and explain line by line what items mean. Find out ways you can effectively manage your energy usage - what items you can affect and which ones you can't. We can't say you'll look forward to receiving your energy bill, but at least you will understand it! | NH Small Business Center Development | MORE INFORMATION |
| What is a Kilowatt Hour | Learn from Doria Brown with the City of Nashua the concept of a kilowatt hour and unraveling its significance in our daily lives and the world of electricity consumption. Through clear explanations and engaging visuals, Brown sheds light on this fundamental unit, empowering viewers to grasp its importance in shaping our energy-conscious future. | City of Nashua, Doria Brown | MORE INFORMATION |
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| NHSaves Incentives & Programs | Your NHSaves® utility partners offer a wide variety of rebates on the products and technologies that help New Hampshire bsuinesses save energy and money. | NHSaves | MORE INFORMATION |
| Small Business Energy Audit Fund | CDFA’s Small Business Energy Audit Fund (EAF) provides grants to cover 75% of the cost of comprehensive energy audits for New Hampshire agricultural producers and rural small businesses. | NH Community Development Finance Authority | MORE INFORMATION |
| Rural Energy for America Program Technical Assistance | The USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) provides grants for small businesses and agricultural producers to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy technology. REAP grants cover up to 50% of eligible project costs. Eligible technologies include solar, wind, geothermal, wood heat or power, anaerobic digesters, weatherization, the installation of energy efficient equipment, and more. | Clean Energy NH | MORE INFORMATION |
| Climate Challenge 101 | The Climate Action Challenge is an eight-week program designed to engage you and your workplace team in climate action! We recommend you review or take the introductory Climate Challenge 101 before this more action-oriented and in-depth program. | NH Businesses for Social Responsibility | MORE INFORMATION |
| Apprenticeship Grant Resources | The Climate Action Challenge is an eight-week program designed to engage you and your workplace team in climate action! We recommend you review or take the introductory Climate Challenge 101 before this more action-oriented and in-depth program. | Community College System of NH | MORE INFORMATION |
| Pre-Apprenticeship Resources | Registered Apprenticeship is a time-proven workforce development tool. ApprenticeshipNH has compiled some of the best resources from around the country and right here in New Hampshire to help you build, manage, and be successful in your apprenticeship program. | Community College System of NH | MORE INFORMATION |
| Apprenticeship Building America Grant Information/ Applications | This workforce product was funded by a grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor – Employment and Training Administration. The product was created by the recipient and does not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Labor. The Department of Labor makes no guarantees, warranties, or assurances of any kind, express or implied, with respect to such information, including any information on linked sites and including, but not limited to, accuracy of the information or its completeness, timeliness, usefulness, adequacy, continued availability, or ownership. This product is copyrighted by the institution that created it. The total funding of the ApprenticeshipNH initiative is $12.07M with 99% funded through the following U.S. Department of Labor-Employment and Training Administration grants in the amounts indicated: State Apprenticeship Expansion 2020 (SAE2020) $3.45M, State Apprenticeship Expansion Formula (SAEF) $2.82M, Apprenticeship Building America (ABA) $5.8M. Additional support of less than 1% is provided by third party scholarship grants. | ApprenticeshipNH | MORE INFORMATION |
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| NHSaves Incentives & Programs | Your NHSaves® utility partners work with municipal customers to help them reduce their energy bills while receiving incentives to offset the cost of energy efficiency projects. The utilities are here to help with technical and financial assistance, as well as guidance with project management to help identify, prioritize and implement a cost-effective energy efficiency strategy in your facility. | NHSaves | MORE INFORMATION |
| Energy Circuit Rider (ECR) Program | The Energy Circuit Rider (ECR) Program was created and piloted in Coös County beginning in 2019. From 2019 to 2022, the North Country Circuit Rider helped more than a dozen communities complete over 30 energy efficiency and clean energy projects. The Circuit Rider Program has helped North Country communities receive more than $1.2 million in incentives and grants, resulting in over $3 million dollars invested in clean energy projects. In 2023 and 2024, CENH added three additional Energy Circuit Riders serving municipalities in the Monadnock, Seacoast, and Sullivan County regions. An Energy Circuit Rider is a shared staff person providing services to multiple cities and towns across a region. The CENH Energy Circuit Riders help municipalities and small businesses plan, finance, and implement energy-saving upgrades to buildings and infrastructure, as well as clean energy technologies such as renewable energy or electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Working side-by-side with municipal officials and business owners, Energy Circuit Riders provide capacity and expertise to support informed decision making. | Clean Energy NH | MORE INFORMATION |
| Community Facilities Energy Assessment Program | CDFA’s Community Facilities Energy Assessment Program provides grant funding to reduce the cost of energy-related studies for New Hampshire municipalities and nonprofit organizations. Eligible studies and assessments will identify and support implementation projects that reduce future operating and maintenance costs and improve building comfort and health, allowing organizations and communities to better support their core missions. Grants cover up to 75% of the cost of energy-related studies, up to $6,000. | NH Community Development Finance Authority | MORE INFORMATION |
| Community Resilience Options: A Menu for Enhancing Local Energy Resilience | This report was created as part of the Solar Energy Innovation Network (SEIN). SEIN seeks to overcome barriers to solar adoption by connecting teams of stakeholders that are pioneering new ideas with the resources they need to succeed. Teams that participate in SEIN receive direct funding and analytical support from U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories and participate in peer-to-peer learning with other teams tackling similar challenges. These teams are developing and documenting their solutions for solar adoption with scale in mind, so that others can adapt those solutions to their own contexts. Ultimately, the true impact of these teams’ efforts will be to enable a wide array of communities to adopt solar solutions that meet their needs in their contexts. | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | MORE INFORMATION |
| SBDC Small Business Resiliency Guide | The purpose of this guide is to be the starting point of the planning process, and to get you, the small business owner, thinking about how to best prepare your business for any potential disaster. This guidebook is designed to help you evaluate your business’s goals and to plan how the fundamentals of your operations can be protected, maintained, and recovered when problems arise. It is difficult to prepare for every possible disaster, but the fundamentals presented in this guide can help you build a solid foundation for your business to stand on in case of a disaster. | NH Smalll Business Development Center | MORE INFORMATION |
| Resilient Cities Network | The world’s cities are more densely populated and more interconnected than ever before. While this brings increasing social and economic advantages, this also brings increasing vulnerabilities – today’s new normal requires models of governance that mitigate risk and respond to evolving challenges. | Resilient Cities Network | MORE INFORMATION |
| New Hampshire Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) 2024-2028 | The combination of world-class natural and cultural resources, abundant outdoor recreation access, biological and geological diversity, and high quality and informed natural resource management makes the state of New Hampshire extremely attractive and popular among a wide range of local, regional, and international outdoor recreation visitors. These strengths also have the power to revitalize communities, incentivize investments, and attract new residents and workforce talent to the Granite State. To ensure that current and future generations continue to benefit from outdoor recreation in New Hampshire, wise stewardship, protection, and management of these valuable natural and cultural resources are vital to the Granite State’s continued prosperity. | NH Department of Natural & Cultural Resources | MORE INFORMATION |
| From a Shorter Winter Season to More Storm Damage: New Hampshire Outdoor Recreation Providers Feel Climate Impacts Far More than Visitors | Outdoor recreation is a key part of both the New Hampshire economy and way of life. It is responsible for over 30,000 jobs in the state, representing 3.2 percent of the state gross domestic product (GDP) from both in-state and out-of-state participants. Outdoor recreation visitation has steadily risen in the United States, with a dramatic increase in the last five years, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Within the White Mountain National Forest of New Hampshire, outdoor recreation increased by close to 50% from 2015 to 2020. This long-term rise in visitation occurred simultaneously with a range of climate-related impacts on outdoor recreation, including shifting seasons, increases in the occurrence of extreme weather events, and warmer winters. Moreover, the North Central and Northeast regions of the country are experiencing climate change impacts on outdoor recreation more acutely than anywhere else in the contiguous United States. This combination of stressors poses a risk to both the quality of visitors’ outdoor recreation experiences and the natural environments in which these experiences take place. | University of NH Carsey School of Public Policy | MORE INFORMATION |
| Recreation at Risk: The Nature of Climate Costs | CDFA’s Community Facilities Energy Assessment Program provides grant funding to reduce the cost of energy-related studies for New Hampshire municipalities and nonprofit organizations. Eligible studies and assessments will identify and support implementation projects that reduce future operating and maintenance costs and improve building comfort and health, allowing organizations and communities to better support their core missions. Grants cover up to 75% of the cost of energy-related studies, up to $6,000. | US Senate Committee on the Budget | MORE INFORMATION |