The office of renewable energy and energy efficiency may not distribute more than one million six hundred thousand dollars per eligible facility annually in payments under section 17-02-03 and may not distribute any payment that would create a negative ethanol production incentive fund balance. If the incentive fund balance is insufficient to pay all valid incentive requests received in any quarter, the funds available must be paid out on a pro rata basis and obligations may not be carried forward. No eligible facility may receive state payments that exceed a cumulative total of ten million dollars or for longer than ten years. Change in ownership of an eligible facility does not affect the ten million dollar cumulative total allowed to be paid to that eligible facility under this section or the ten-year limitation contained in this section.