A new round of federal funding a part of the Inflation Reduction Act aims to bring energy companies to the northern region of Butler County.
Senator Bob Casey announced earlier this week that more than half of Butler County will qualify as an “energy community.” An energy community is defined as “an area with significant fossil fuel employment, or a census tract or any immediately adjacent census tract with a recent coal mine or coal plant retirement.”
This classification will allow for a bonus tax credit worth 10 percent of the cost of any clean energy project placed in an energy community. The goal of the tax credit is to “incentivize companies to build and manufacture new energy projects.”
The only parts that did not qualify is the southwest corridor of the county and the townships that share a county line with Allegheny county.
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