A new round of federal funding a part of the Inflation Reduction Act aims to bring energy companies to Butler County.
Senator Bob Casey announced earlier this week that all of Butler County will qualify for energy communities tax credits. There are portions of the county, especially to the north, that are known 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.”
