Budget Deal Provides Tax Breaks For Green Energy

NPR | Jan. 04, 2013 9:27 a.m.

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Elizabeth Shogren

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Congress included an array of benefits for renewable energy and energy saving technologies in its "fiscal cliff" package. Homeowners can get tax credits for upgrading their houses to make them more energy efficient or buying energy star appliances. Industries that produce alternative energies from biodiesel to wind power got big incentives to produce more cleaner power.