How We Can Help

Businesses & Organizations

CERTs staff are ready to help you figure out how renewable energy and energy efficiency can help your business.

Technical Assistance & Advice

Businesses have unique opportunities for saving energy and taking advantage of renewable energy resources like solar. CERTs is here to help you understand your options, find out what's working for others, and move forward with projects that make sense for your business.

Unbiased & Free

The Clean Energy Resource Teams work across the state of Minnesota to provide businesses and organizations like yours with the best unbiased resources, tools, guidance, connections, funding and financing opportunities, events, and stories to get your projects done. Best of all, we're not trying to sell you anything: Our services are free.

Get Project Support

If your rural small business is interested in renewable energy and energy efficiency, we can help you understand your options and move forward! Our Renewable Energy for Greater Minnesota program, funded by USDA, offers:

  • Project examples
  • Funding & financing guidance
  • Direct technical assistance

Food Shelf Project
Support

Energy efficiency and renewable energy projects are great ways to save money on energy bills, improve facilities, and provide a healthier and more inviting environment to shoppers. CERTs can help your food shelf:

  • Identify projects
  • Seek funding opportunities
  • Provide outreach to shoppers on home energy savings

Tools for Businesses & Orgs

Videos about businesses powered by clean energy

Technical Assistance & Advice

Clean energy technologies and best practices are available, and CERTs staff are ready to help you figure out how renewable energy and energy efficiency can help your business or organization reduce costs and become more resilient.