$53.6 Million to Expand Weatherization Assistance Program & Lower Costs for More American Households

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The Investing in America Agenda is Supporting Progressive Demonstration Tasks That Will Improve the Weatherization Help Program and Broaden Public and Non-public Partnerships to Assist Clear Power Jobs

As a part of President Biden’s Investing in America agendathe U.S. Division of Power (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 Power Sources for Customers (SERC) grants, which give low-income households with vitality saving measures and supplies not historically included in DOE’s Weatherization Help Program (WAP). Along with customary weatherization measures, equivalent to enhancing 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, equivalent to photo voltaic photovoltaic panels, chilly local weather air supply warmth pumps, and triple-pane home windows. Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation, these initiatives assist meet the Biden-Harris Administrations imaginative and prescient of making clear vitality entry to all Individuals. DOE expects the initiatives to offer focused advantages to deprived communities although new partnerships with private and non-private entities that may cut back vitality burden low-income households and help great-paying clear vitality 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 Power 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 get pleasure from saving a median of 30% on their vitality payments. SERC grants—funded by 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 initiatives that maximize the advantages of the clear vitality transition. These cost-cutting investments align with and advance President Biden’s Justice40 Initiativewhich units a objective that 40% of the general advantages of sure federal local weather, clear vitality, inexpensive and sustainable housing, and different investments circulate to deprived communities which are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by air pollution.

The chosen grantees are:

Delawarewhich obtained $1,500,000 for its challenge, “Decarbonization of low-income communities via electrification in Delaware.”
Georgia, which obtained $7,500,000 for its challenge, “Optimized Climate Control in Humid Regions.”
Indianawhich obtained $2,000,000 for its challenge, “Indiana Housing & Community Development Authority WAP SERC Application.”
Kentuckywhich obtained $3,222,300 for its challenge, “Kentucky SERC Project 2024.”
Massachusettswhich obtained $1,300,000 for its challenge, “Smartflower Ground-Mounted Community Solar and 1-4 Unit Solar Installations.”
Michiganwhich obtained $900,000 for its challenge, “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 Jerseywhich obtained $1,000,000 for its challenge, “Sustainable Energy Resources for Consumers.”
New Mexicowhich obtained $2,000,000 for its challenge, “SERC Measures for Northern New Mexico.”
New Yorkwhich obtained $25,136,550 for its challenge, “New York State- Housing and Community Renewal BIL SERC Subgrantee Applications.”
Ohiowhich obtained $4,301,375 for its challenge, “Solar for Ohio’s Appalachian Region (SOAR) and Toledo Green & Healthy Homes Program.”
Pennsylvaniawhich obtained $500,000 for its challenge, “Lawrence County Social Services, Inc. Sustainable Energy Resources for Consumers (SERC) Grant Application.”
Tennesseewhich obtained $1,500,000 for its challenge, “Solar Photovoltaic Energy Reduction Initiative.”
Utahwhich obtained $1,307,271 for its challenge, “Increasing Energy Efficiency and Reaching Electrification.”
U.S. Virgin Islandswhich obtained $1,500,000 for its challenge, “Virgin Islands Energy Office SERC BIL.”