An Act To Promote the Use of Wood Pellet Central Heating Systems

Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §10121, sub-§1, ¶F,  as amended by PL 2011, c. 637, §8, is further amended to read:

Sec. 2. Efficiency Maine Trust to provide rebates for purchase of wood pellet central heating systems. The Efficiency Maine Trust shall establish a program to provide a rebate in an amount equal to 50% of the purchase price up to $10,000 of a residential wood pellet central heating system and up to $20,000 of a nonresidential wood pellet central heating system pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, section 10121, subsection 1, paragraph F. The trust shall adopt routine technical rules, as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A, to implement the program.

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This bill directs the Efficiency Maine Trust to provide a rebate from the trust's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Resource Fund in an amount equal to 50% of the purchase price up to $10,000 of a residential wood pellet central heating system and up to $20,000 of a nonresidential wood pellet central heating system.