The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) introduced $1.5 million in awards to construct new solar on low-income Marylanders’ main residence. Funding for this mission is made doable by way of MEA’s Low Income Solar Grant Program, which is funded by the Strategic Energy Investment Fund.
“Through this program, MEA continues to remain committed to making solar energy accessible to low-income residential households in Maryland,” mentioned MEA director Dr. Mary Beth Tung. “MEA hopes to use data from this program to inform future decisions on the benefits of solar energy systems in low-income communities. Installing solar energy systems will not only help reduce energy costs for Marylanders, but will also help to promote clean and renewable energy across the state.”
MEA will present grant funding for the design and set up of solar energy programs for a restricted variety of Low Income (LI) single household houses which have obtained an energy audit and weatherization-type energy effectivity upgrades as a part of MEA’s Low-to-Moderate Income Energy Efficiency Grant Program. The Pilot Low Income Solar Grant Program will make obtainable as much as 100% of the fee for the design and set up of solar programs ranging in measurement from 1 kW to 10 kW, with a cap of $25,000 per home.
The 4 organizations chosen to obtain Low Income Solar Grants are:
- Arundel Community Development Services (ACDS): a non-public nonprofit company established in 1993 by Anne Arundel County to make sure the environment friendly supply of neighborhood improvement companies to these most in want. ACDS’s complete award quantity is as much as $433,333 which is able to serve at the very least 17 low revenue houses.
- Building Change: Building Change: a nonprofit group positioned in Prince George’s County, Maryland whose mission is to advance client empowerment by way of advocacy, thought management, training and creating technological options to advertise and finance wholesome dwelling, the constructed surroundings, neighborhood improvement, and sustainable development practices. Building Change’s complete award quantity is as much as $433,333 which is able to serve at the very least 17 low revenue houses.
- Civic Works: operates training, neighborhood enchancment and energy conservation applications. Civic Works has developed an in depth community of low-income Maryland prospects who’ve beforehand obtained an energy audit and weatherization energy effectivity companies. Civic Works complete award quantity is as much as $433,333 which is able to serve at the very least 17 low revenue houses.
- Green & Healthy Homes (GHHI): devoted to addressing the social determinants of well being and the development of racial and well being fairness by way of the creation of wholesome, secure and energy environment friendly houses. GHHI proposed to combine MEA renewable energy funding with various leverage funding sources to determine and set up solar on at the very least eight low-income houses with a complete award as much as $200,000.
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