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Renewable Heating And Cooling

Energy Purchase Contracts: Best Practices

This white paper is part of EPA’s work to expand markets for clean energy and support cost-effective reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. The paper complements several simultaneous efforts by EPA aimed at advancing best practices and standards for commercial- and industrial-scale renewable heating and cooling technologies.

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Solar Heating and Cooling: Contractual Best Practices for Third-Party Financed Commercial- and Industrial-Scale Projects (PDF)(15 pp, 821 K, 12/2012)