How to Make Your LA Business and Community Environmentally Friendly with Financial Incentives and Tax Breaks
Los Angeles is forging a path to become the greenest major city in the United States. By leveraging clean technology as a powerful economic driver, the city is fostering innovation and providing practical solutions to help businesses reduce their environmental footprint and lower operating costs.

Key initiatives include the Clean Air Action Plan, the cultivation of a thriving CleanTech industry, and the introduction of a pioneering urban environmental blueprint, the Sustainable City pLAn. These efforts underscore the city's unwavering commitment to sustainability and collaboration with businesses across the region.

Companies can actively participate in this movement through programs that offer environmental tax incentives, recycling initiatives, and support for Brownfields remediation. Explore how Los Angeles is empowering businesses to embrace greener practices and contribute to a cleaner, more sustainable future.







  • Green Your Business

    Green Your Business

    In Los Angeles, we are serious about cleaning up our environment and strive to be the cleanest, greenest big city in the United States. For that reason, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power offers many different ways for you to receive cash rebates and lower your utility bill while reducing your impact on the environment.

    Below are just a few ways that your business can improve its energy efficiency, waste management, and carbon footprint.

    • LA Green Building Code
      Green buildings improve public health, safety, and general welfare through enhanced design, reducing negative impact, promoting a positive environmental impact, and rewarding sustainable construction practices. The LA Department of Building and Safety helps you build, renovate and save money while 'greening' your business.

    • Commercial EV Charger Rebate Program
      The Commercial EV Charger Rebate Program offers rebates to help offset the cost of installing electric vehicle supply equipment.

    • Commercial Lighting Incentive Program
      The Commercial Lighting Incentive Program provides rebates on the installation of newly purchased and installed energy-efficient lighting and controls.

    • Business Offerings for Sustainable Solutions (BOSS)
      The BOSS program provides rebates to help with the cost of your next efficiency project.

    • Commercial SoCal Water $mart Water Rebate Program
      LADWP continues to offer a wide array of rebates and incentive programs that encourage water use efficiency and sustainable landscaping for businesses including rebates for appliances and irrigation equipment.

    • Technical Assistance Program (TAP)
      The TAP program assists commercial, industrial, and multi-family residential customers with modernizing their facilities with the latest water efficient equipment, saving money and conservation.

    • Food Service Program
      LADWP offers incentives for new energy efficient cooking and cooking process equipment. Under this program your business may qualify for a financial incentive when you purchase equipment such as ovens, griddles, steam cookers, holding cabinets, glass and solid door refrigerators/freezers, and icemakers for your business.

    • Zero By Design
      LADWP ZBD provides financial incentives to builders for building commercial and high-rise multifamily new construction projects more sustainably.
  • Green Your Community

    Green Your Community

    The City and your Business District can work together to help improve the quality of life in your district and increase sales. More trees, better lighting, clean sidewalks, well-maintained streets, graffiti-free walls - all will help bring more customers to your neighborhood.

    • Plant Trees Los Angeles will get hotter in the coming decades and trees are the key to cooling our homes, streets, and schools. Get FREE shade trees to plant in your yard, on private property, your parkway, and that strip between the sidewalk and the street.

    • Graffiti Abatement
      Graffiti abatement improves the quality of life for those who live, work, and visit Los Angeles every day. Anonymously report graffiti online, by phone or through the MyLA311 app.

    • Bulky Item Pick Up
      Old sofas, mattresses, and other items lying around deter potential customers, lower the curb appeal of neighborhoods and contribute to pollution. Request a bulky item pick up and the City will clean it up for you.

    • Abandoned Waste and Illegal Dumping
      LA Sanitation will pick up abandoned waste items such as mattresses, couches, doors, carpet, toilets, electrical waste, and other furniture and items from the streets, free of charge. Anonymously report illegal dumping online, by phone or through the MyLA311 app.

    • Sidewalk Bicycle Parking Program
      Build and sustain a successful Bicycle Friendly Business District through the LADOT Sidewalk Bike Parking Program.
  • Green Technology

    Green Technology

    Los Angeles has some of the most progressive environmental policies and initiatives in the nation, resulting in more than $1 billion of investment in cleantech programs such as sustainable development, renewable energy, and clean transportation. hrough leading environmental initiatives, we are cleaning up the air and water, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building a robust green economy through the creation of jobs and businesses.

    • CleanTech Corridor
      Los Angeles has created a CleanTech Corridor where public investments will catalyze the growth of a cleantech cluster and green manufacturing jobs in Downtown L.A. This 4-mile strip between the Los Angeles River and Alameda in the eastern part of downtown is the cornerstone of the city’s green economy strategy and home to the cleantech ecosystem that supports LA's green economy.

      Los Angeles has developed an extensive R&D network by partnering with Caltech, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, UCLA, USC and other premier business groups to make Los Angeles a global leader in the clean technology sector. The city is offering a range of incentives for cleantech companies to locate within the corridor.

    • The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)
      LACI accelerates development of cleantech start-ups by offering flexible office space, CEO coaching and mentoring, and access to a growing network of experts and capital. LACI recently merged with CleanTech LA - bringing together business, government and academia to expand and develop the clean technology sector in Los Angeles by promoting sustainability and economic growth.

    • LA Regional CleanTech Career Academy
      The LA Regional Cleantech Career Academy is helping young people claim their role in building our clean energy future. The academy brings together partners from cleantech, education, labor and local government to provide training and mentorship to the next generation of cleantech workers across Los Angeles.

    • Grid110
      Grid 110 is a nonprofit incubator focused on the startup ecosystem by assisting early stage entrepreneurs, and promoting economic development by fostering green businesses and technology.

    • MoveLA
      Move LA advocates for the development of a modern, efficient and financially sound public transportation system for Los Angeles County and champions strategies to accelerate implementation.