{"id":777,"date":"2013-10-03T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiberlitetech.com\/blog\/?p=777"},"modified":"2013-10-03T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T15:03:13","slug":"how-did-homeowners-use-the-energy-tax-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiberlitetech.com\/blog\/how-did-homeowners-use-the-energy-tax-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did Homeowners Use the Energy Tax Credits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005, Congress established a number of energy-efficiency tax incentives related to housing.\u00a0 These policies include the tax code section 45L credit for construction of energy-efficient homes, the 25C credit for retrofitting homes, and the 25D credit for the installation of power production property in new and existing homes.<\/p>\n<p>The 25C credit is available for existing homes and homeowners and may receive a tax credit worth 10% of the cost of energy-efficient improvements up to $500.\u00a0 This tax credit expires December 31, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Homeowners that have taken advantage of this tax credit spent $7.8 billion on energy-efficient windows by 2.2 million homeowners.\u00a0 Energy efficient natural gas, propane, and oil powered water heaters and furnaces were second, with $5.3 billion in qualified expenditures by almost 1.4 million taxpayers.\u00a0 While 2.1 million taxpayers spent $3.5 billion on upgrading insulation in their homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005, Congress established a number of energy-efficiency tax incentives related to housing.\u00a0 These policies include the tax code section 45L credit for construction of energy-efficient homes, the 25C credit for retrofitting homes, and the 25D credit for the installation &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiberlitetech.com\/blog\/how-did-homeowners-use-the-energy-tax-credits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberlitetech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberlitetech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberlitetech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberlitetech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberlitetech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberlitetech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberlitetech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberlitetech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberlitetech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiberlitetech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}