Sentences with phrase «include federal incentives»

That the AWC developer is requesting rates that include federal incentives is appropriate, their filing contended, because «the AWC Companies face a multitude of significant regulatory, financial and technical risks in developing the AWC Project.»

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These features include the availability of physical cash and a behavioral aversion by some money market investors to investing at negative rates, and also encompass certain unique features of money markets in the United States, such as legal and regulatory incentives applicable to money market mutual funds and the ability of the government - sponsored enterprises to leave unremunerated deposits at the Federal Reserve.23

She is also experienced with U.S. federal and state renewable energy tax incentive programs (including the investment tax credit, production tax credit, and 1603 cash grant), post-TEFRA partnership audit rules, and compliance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

Two real estate developers hired the law firm to represent them in tax challenge cases in return for Silver allegedly backing the renewal of state tax incentives for developers of large housing projects that include affordable units, according to federal charges.

The total $ 41.1 billion cost would include an $ 8.2 billion city investment in the form of funding, tax incentives, and other investments, with the rest paid for with state, federal and private funding.

Incentives included sales and property tax breaks from the Lockport Industrial Development Agency, an allocation of discounted hydropower and a federal grant.

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

Using enrollment of thousands of people in a California blackout prevention program as an experimental test bed, a team of researchers that included Erez Yoeli, a researcher at the Federal Trade Commission, Moshe Hoffman, a visiting researcher at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED), David Rand, formerly a post-doctoral fellow at PED (now a professor at Yale University), and PED Director Martin Nowak, showed that while financial incentives boosted participation only slightly, making participation in the program observable — through the use of sign - up sheets posted in apartment buildings — produced a three-fold increase in sign - ups.

For example, the researchers found many instances where the comprehensive plans included tax incentive policies to stimulate economic development in hazardous areas even though the local hazard mitigation plans identified the same areas as experiencing severe repetitive losses from hazard events and qualifying for federal funds for buyouts.

Wolf and his colleague Bryan Hassel have called for a «big toolbox» of talents and strategies, including incentives for student and educator performance, goal - setting up and down the federal - state - local system, and consequences for underperformance.

Federal and state incentives at both the institutional and student level for higher on - time graduation rates are needed, as is longitudinal data that would allow institutional graduation rates to include part - time students and those who graduate from institutions other than the one in which they initially enrolled.

As states reach important milestones on the way toward building internationally competitive education systems, the federal government should offer a range of tiered incentives to make the next stage of the journey easier, including increased flexibility in the use of federal funds and in meeting federal educational requirements and providing more resources to implement world - class educational best practices.

Yes, as Neal McCluskey has doggedly pointed out for years, some Common Core supporters (including some state supes) urged the federal government to create «incentives» for state adoption of these higher standards.

Financial incentives to improve teaching were included in the federal No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top initiatives.

But officials said Tuesday that even if the state does win a federal grant of up to $ 700 million, there's unlikely to be any effort to mandate any of the more controversial aspects of the latest California Race to the Top application - including incentive pay for teachers and principals.

Studies, including those sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank, find that incentive - based practices only work for the most menial tasks that do not require critical thinking (Ariely, et.

After 15 years of work by states and school districts to raise standards, disaggregate data, and close gaps, the federal government is taking the foot off the gas and leaving even more decisions to the states and to local school officials, including those about measures, metrics, incentives, and interventions.

In addition to ESEA waiver requirements that districts incorporate evaluation data into personnel decisions (though compensation isn't specified), the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), a federal grant program that has allocated over $ 2 billion since its inception, began supporting state and district efforts to implement performance - based compensation in 2006.79 Grantees from across the country have included Miami - Dade County Public Schools, Mississippi, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, and Washington, D.C. Public Schools (see Case Study: Lessons From Washington, D.C.'s IMPACT System).

The vehicle pricing starts at $ 34,495 with available US federal tax credit, not including state and local incentives.

The A3 e-tron is eligible for several federal and state tax incentives, including a $ 4,168 federal tax credit.

2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid starts at $ 34,495 after available U.S. federal tax credit (not including state and local incentives)

Government incentives, including a $ 7,500 Federal tax credit, could bring the price closer to $ 30,000.

When calculating residual value, ALG does not include federal, state or automaker incentives.

With a starting MSRP of only $ 34,495 after the available U.S. federal tax credit, and not including your state and local incentives, this affordable family - sized hybrid is changing the way we view travel.

Currently in showrooms, the BMW i3 has a base MSRP of $ 43,395, before any federal or state incentives, including $ 995 for Destination & Handling.

Pricing for the 2019 Kona EV was not disclosed, but it is expected to qualify for incentives including a federal income tax credit of up to $ 7,500.

The base model has an MSRP of $ 33,700, plus $ 850 destination charges, not including any federal or state incentives.

The lenders are adopting a code of conduct that bans a variety of marketing practices, such as using logos or seals that look like federal emblems, providing incentives to induce students to borrow from the lender (e.g., gift cards, iPods, prizes and sweepstakes), providing false rebate checks, paying students referral fees to encourage friends to borrow, advertising interest rates and discounts that few borrowers will realize (including using such rates and loan terms in repayment examples and examples illustrating loan costs), misrepresenting the advantages of private loans over federal loans.

But contracts governing the servicing of older Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) loans originally made by private lenders may not include such incentives.

Some lenders including the Federal Government may throw in incentives which can help lower the total cost of the loan.

Education Finance Council (EFC), the national trade association representing nonprofit and state - based higher education finance organizations, including all the not - for - profit (NFP) Federal Direct Loan servicers, has raised concerns that ED's plan would create a monopolistic environment with little to no incentive to ensure the single servicer provides the highest quality of customer service to student loan borrowers.

Incentives should include exemption of microbusinesses (under 20 employees, and under $ 2 million annual revenue) from the more onerous reporting, environmental liability, minority quotas, employee liabilities, OSHA hassles, and taxation (including patent «maintenance fees»), imposed by the federal government.

The UCS rounded out the report with a number of policy recommendations that could help accelerate the electric vehicle transition, including advocating for «federal and state purchase incentives that are vital to making EVs an affordable and competitive option.»

We'll also invest federal resources, including tax incentives and government contracts, into developing next generation biofuels.

These include additional commercial incentives, such as the federal Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) incentive for solar equipment, which the PV system would not otherwise be eligible for if the residential homeowner owned the system.

Some of the important factors include: technology has significantly improved, utilities are becoming more familiar with integrating wind energy, key federal tax incentives have been renewed and utilities are beginning to hedge against risks associated with fossil fuels.

The administration's plan included federal aid and incentive programs that would have cut U.S. net oil imports in half by 2020.

WHEREAS, the federal government and many individual states currently provide direct subsidies in the form of tax credits, rebates, and other incentives to owners of alternative - fueled vehicles, including electric, natural gas, biofuel, propane clean diesel and, in some instances, supporting fueling infrastructure; and

In arguing for the continuation of federal incentives, advocates of renewable energy often point out that all forms of energy — including fossil fuels — rely on a complex web of state and federal credits and aid.

Greg Efthimiou, a spokesman for Duke Energy of Charlotte, N.C., said that although Duke built renewable energy projects to meet customer demands as opposed to the tax credit deadline explicitly, the federal incentives did help — and Duke planned to build five large wind farms next year, including two in Texas and two in Kansas.

This includes both the value of electricity generated by the solar panel system over its lifespan and the 30 % federal investment tax credit and other applicable rebates and incentives like solar renewable energy certificates (SRECs).

To counter criticism of the business community from college campuses, business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce should support scholars who will defend the free enterprise system, develop speakers and support speakers» bureaus that will counter the liberal rhetoric coming from college campuses, subject textbooks to ideological review, insist on equal time for speakers exposing the views of the business community for speakers on campuses, insist that college faculties be balanced by those who will defend the free enterprise system, request that graduate schools of business include courses that support the free enterprise system, encourage local chambers of commerce to provide the views of the business community in high schools, establish staff who work with the media to communicate to the general public the views of the business community, monitor and criticize television programs that unfairly criticize the free enterprise system and where appropriate file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, monitor radio and other media and pressure them to cover the views of defenders of the free enterprise system, support scholars who support the free enterprise system to publish in scholarly journals, establish incentives for scholars to publish defenses of free enterprise in books, papers, and pamphlets, spend more money on advertising that expressly supports the free market system.

«We are disappointed that an extension of wind energy's key federal tax incentive was not included in this bill,» said AWEA CEO Denise Bode.

At the end of 2015, Congress passed a budget deal that included a surprise multi-year extension and phase - down of two key federal tax incentives for renewable energy — the Production Tax Credit (PTC) and Investment Tax Credit (ITC).

A number of states, including Duke's home base of North Carolina, are considering repealing their renewable portfolio standards or cutting back on state tax credits, while federal tax incentives for wind and solar are set to expire in the coming years as well.

Here in the United States, farmers are pulling land out of the federal conservation program, threatening fragile habitats... Most troubling, though, is that the higher food prices caused in large part by food - to - fuel mandates create incentives for global deforestation, including in the Amazon basin.

«A number of favorable developments have led us to this decision, including the dramatic growth in utility demand for large - scale wholesale solar projects, the increasing number of states with incentive programs for customer - owned systems and the federal government's recent stimulus package.»

Support Next Generation Biofuels Deploy Cellulosic Ethanol: Obama will invest federal resources, including tax incentives, cash prizes and government contracts into developing the most promising technologies with the goal of getting the first two billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol into the system by 2013.

The NEPD Group recommends that the President direct federal agencies... to identify environmentally and cost - effective ways to use market mechanisms and incentives... and cooperate with allies, including through international processes, to develop technologies, market - based incentives, and other innovative approaches to address the issue of global climate change.»

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