After that experience, a cash grant delivered seems a lot more significant than it once did.
The cash grant program could certainly be improved in a number of ways, which we detailed in our previous post.
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In such cases, the cash grant program was essential to keeping the project financially viable, under construction, and putting Americans to work.
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At the scale of the clean energy sector as a whole the effects of the cash grant program have been substantial and positive.
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In this case, the cash grant would have been absolutely essential to keeping the project financially viable and construction (and the associated jobs) underway.
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These jobs, which may have been saved by the cash grant program, are not included in the LBNL estimate, which is thus likely on the conservative side.
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Furthermore, the cash grant program did support more than 50, 000 short-term jobs during the height of the recession and nearly 4, 000 long-term, permanent jobs, according to conservative estimates.
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Enter the stimulus-funded Section 1603 clean energy cash grant program.
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Even more solar and other renewable energy facilities came online with help from the cash grant program, creating jobs and spurring financial investment at a critical juncture in the recession.
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It is true that some of the projects that received funding under the stimulus-funded Section 1603 cash grant program went to projects that had completed construction prior to the stimulus bill.
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In this case, the cash grant was unnecessary, but the cost to the government would have been the same, since the developer would have cashed in the equivalent tax credits anyway.
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It allows developers to get a cash grant of 30% of the cost of the project, but in order to qualify for the grant developers must break ground by December of this year.
Iberdrola Renewables, a Spanish wind energy company with a presence in the United States, told Greenwire that were it not for the cash grant program, it would have invested outside of the United States.
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Indeed, of the nearly 6.2 GW of newly installed wind energy projects that elected the cash grant incentive, the LBNL analysts discount nearly 60% of them as projects for which the grant may not have been essential for completion (e.g. projects were already completed or would have otherwise been able to utilize the production tax credit, or PTC, to help finance the projects).
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The NIAID is funding these trials directly, rather than giving the cash to Starpharma as a grant.
He persuaded a patient group, Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, to grant a small amount of cash for preclinical work on the PTC medicine.
Food-stamp participation rose by 45% between December 2007 and December 2009, CBPP calculates, while the number of families receiving cash grants under TANF, a block-grant scheme, rose by just 13%.
One option is to lock in spending at post-sequester levels and grant department heads so-called transfer authority to shift cash between accounts, after consultation with the committees on the Hill.
Now it hopes to grant a 50-year lease to encourage organisations to invest the cash to create a top attraction.
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Grant some reasonable tax credit to the giant companies if they use their cash resources this way.
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