$53.6 Million to Broaden Weatherization Help Program & Decrease Prices for Extra American Households – CleanTechnica – Uplaza

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The Investing in America Agenda is Supporting Modern Demonstration Initiatives That Will Improve the Weatherization Help Program and Broaden Public and Non-public Partnerships to Help Clear Vitality Jobs

As a part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Division of Vitality (DOE) in the present day introduced that it has chosen fourteen state and territorial weatherization places of work to obtain $53.6 million in Sustainable Vitality Assets for Shoppers (SERC) grants, which offer low-income households with power saving measures and supplies not historically included in DOE’s Weatherization Help Program (WAP). Along with commonplace weatherization measures, corresponding to bettering insulation and sealing cracks and gaps, SERC grantees will conduct expanded retrofits of low-income residential buildings and make the most of a variety of applied sciences, corresponding to photo voltaic photovoltaic panels, chilly local weather air supply warmth pumps, and triple-pane home windows. Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation, these tasks assist meet the Biden-Harris Administrations imaginative and prescient of making clear power entry to all Individuals. DOE expects the tasks to supply focused advantages to deprived communities although new partnerships with private and non-private entities that can scale back power burden low-income households and help great-paying clear power jobs.

“As the nation wrestles with extreme weather intensified by climate change, the Biden–Harris Administration is ensuring that Americans in every pocket of the country, regardless of income, have access to the clean energy tools that make their homes more resilient and efficient,” mentioned U.S. Secretary of Vitality Jennifer M. Granholm. “We are infusing new technology and flexibility into the Department’s long-standing Weatherization Assistance Program, investing in more low-income households and creating more clean energy jobs.”

Since 1976, the Weatherization Help Program has served seven million households, which take pleasure in saving a mean of 30% on their power payments. SERC grants—funded by means of the historic $3.5 billion the Biden–Harris Administration has invested within the Weatherization Help Program — are designed to implement a broader government-wide method and deploy demonstration tasks that maximize the advantages of the clear power transition. These cost-cutting investments align with and advance President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative, which units a purpose that 40% of the general advantages of sure federal local weather, clear power, reasonably priced and sustainable housing, and different investments stream to deprived communities which can be marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by air pollution.

The chosen grantees are: 

• Delaware, which acquired $1,500,000 for its venture, “Decarbonization of low-income communities via electrification in Delaware.”
• Georgia, which acquired $7,500,000 for its venture, “Optimized Climate Control in Humid Regions.”
• Indiana, which acquired $2,000,000 for its venture, “Indiana Housing & Community Development Authority WAP SERC Application.”
• Kentucky, which acquired $3,222,300 for its venture, “Kentucky SERC Project 2024.”
• Massachusetts, which acquired $1,300,000 for its venture, “Smartflower Ground-Mounted Community Solar and 1-4 Unit Solar Installations.”
• Michigan, which acquired $900,000 for its venture, “SERC Application – Michigan Department of Health and Human Services- Bureau of Community Action and Economic Opportunity and Washtenaw Office of Community and Economic Development.”
• New Jersey, which acquired $1,000,000 for its venture, “Sustainable Energy Resources for Consumers.”
• New Mexico, which acquired $2,000,000 for its venture, “SERC Measures for Northern New Mexico.”
• New York, which acquired $25,136,550 for its venture, “New York State- Housing and Community Renewal BIL SERC Subgrantee Applications.”
• Ohio, which acquired $4,301,375 for its venture, “Solar for Ohio’s Appalachian Region (SOAR) and Toledo Green & Healthy Homes Program.”
• Pennsylvania, which acquired $500,000 for its venture, “Lawrence County Social Services, Inc. Sustainable Energy Resources for Consumers (SERC) Grant Application.”
• Tennessee, which acquired $1,500,000 for its venture, “Solar Photovoltaic Energy Reduction Initiative.”
• Utah, which acquired $1,307,271 for its venture, “Increasing Energy Efficiency and Reaching Electrification.”
• U.S. Virgin Islands, which acquired $1,500,000 for its venture, “Virgin Islands Energy Office SERC BIL.”

DOE has beforehand awarded two rounds of SERC funding, totaling $20.8 million, to fifteen Grantees.

Learn extra about previous SERC grant recipients right here.

Courtesy of U.S. Division of Vitality.