Boulder, Denver and Garfield counties received a $25 Million DOE stimulus grant for energy efficiency and retrofit ramp up. The goal for these funds is to aid market transformation and increase energy efficient retrofits to existing homes. Please take the survey and let the Governor’s Energy Office know what help your business needs to overcome barriers to implementing more energy efficiency contracting,
The survey ends today.
Take the survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/lslk2m2
June 4, 2010
GEO Retrofit, Weatherization, Energy Efficiency Contractor Survey Extended! Respond Today
April 21, 2010
Boulder County Awarded $25 Million for Retrofit Ramp Up
Vice president Joe Biden announced Boulder, Denver and Garfield Counties will share $25 million in Recovery Act funding as part of a $452 million Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program to “Ramp Up” energy efficiency retrofit of existing buildings.
Boulder County is partnering with the city of Denver, Garfield County, the Governor’s Energy Office, Xcel Energy and others to launch the Colorado Retrofit Ramp-Up Program that will stimulate economic growth and investment in Colorado through large-scale retrofits in neighborhoods and commercial districts in urban, suburban, and rural areas across the state.
Delivery of retrofits will be coordinated through a “Two Techs and a Truck” program, providing on-site outreach, audit and implementation services to businesses and residential homeowners and tenants, including efficiency testing and systems installation. Boulder’s program also proposed an energy “Concierge” to help home owners implement energy efficiency improvements.
Twenty five awards up to $40 million were made to states, municipalities and non-profits.
“This initiative will help overcome the barriers to making energy efficiency easy and accessible to all-inconvenience, lack of information, and lack of financing,” said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. “Block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, we will make our communities more energy efficient and help families save money. At the same time, we’ll create thousands of jobs and strengthen our economy.”
In addition to the $452 million Recovery Act investment, the 25 projects announced today will leverage an estimated $2.8 billion from other sources over the next 3 years to retrofit hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses across the country. Overall, the program funding was eight times oversubscribed, with more than $3.5 billion in applications received for the just over $450 million in Recovery Act funds available, indicating significant demand for investment in energy-saving and job-creating projects like these nationwide.
Grantees will employ innovative financing models to make these savings accessible, for example by offering low and no-interest loans that are repaid through property tax and utility bills. In implementing these projects, grantees will deliver verified energy savings and incorporate sustainable business models, to ensure that buildings will continue to be retrofitted after Recovery Act funds are spent. The Department will use the lessons learned from these pilot programs to develop best-practice guides to comprehensive retrofit programs that can be adopted and implemented by other communities across the country.