2011 Energy Tax Incentives

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To learn about 2011 energy tax incentives, please take a look at the following links for savings:

2011 Residential Energy Financial Incentives
2011 Commercial Energy Financial Incentives

For example, adding adequate insulation is one of the most cost-effective home improvements that you can do.  The current tax credit amount is 10% of the cost, up to $500.

Helpful web sites include:

http://www.dsireusa.org/
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=tax_credits.tx_index
http://www.energysavers.gov/financial/70010.html
http://www.energysavers.gov/financial/
http://energytaxincentives.org/

With catastrophic energy-related crises such as last April's oil spill in the Gulf and this March's Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown we might want to consider ways to generate clean power.

And perhaps even more importantly, as Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Eric W. Orts was quoted today in Knowledge(@)Wharton, "'really the best solution to [the nation's energy] problems is energy efficiency.' And that, he adds, causes no risk at all."