Tax incentives for solar water pumping? [RE-wrenches]

[Roy Butler, Four Winds RE]

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What Travis says is absolutely correct.

I work closely with various NRCS, SWCD and other USDA offices in NY and 
Pa. and over the
past 8 years we've installed close to 40 pumping systems. I've heard 
those same paperwork nightmare stories myself.

An interesting trend in our area is that the USDA employees are 
incredibly focused on helping the farms in their regions to
thrive and will usually take on most of the paperwork burden themselves. 
Lots of good people in those offices looking
out for the family farms. Not what you'd expect from a government agency!

As for the original question of tax incentives being available for these 
systems, I am not aware of any.
But I would certainly welcome any information that anyone finds!



Roy Butler
NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer®
NYSERDA eligible PV & wind installer 
Four Winds Renewable Energy, LLC
8902 Route 46
Arkport, NY 14807
607-324-9747
www.four-winds-energy.com

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Travis Creswell wrote:
> Over the years there's been variety of hybrid cost share programs in my
> region.  They utilize both Federal and State monies.  In some cases they pay
> for 90% of the system.  I've normally seen them associated with rotational
> grazing programs and efforts to get the livestock out of running water.
>
> Since they require the farmer ("producer" is the PC name nowadays) to fence
> off the creek and open his farm to annual tours a high % of farmers pass on
> them.
>
> In the last few year a different USDA cost share program was created that
> will pay up 25% of energy projects on farms and I believe small businesses.
> But from my experience and what others have told me the paper work and post
> project requirements is nothing short of oppressive.  So unless you are
> doing at least a $200k project you'd be better off taking a weekend job at
> McDonalds because you would earn more money in the same amount of hours
> you'd spend working on the paperwork.  I did talk to a USDA employee
> recently who told me that they had recently greatly simplified the
> paperwork.
>
> T
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