Kentucky Multi-County Collaborative Agricultural Energy Initiatives Program ($1,000,000)
This program, also in partnership with the Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy, will encourage regional collaborative solutions to encourage energy efficiency and renewable energy. Kentucky farmers may use grant funds to pay for professional services or equipment, expand renewable energy crop production or prepare the grant application, opening the door to increased funding opportunities. Funding is provided in each of Kentucky’s 120 counties. For more information visit http://agpolicy.ky.gov/
Residential energy usage represents about one-third of Kentucky’s energy use. Since homeowners frequently have trouble affording energy efficiency improvements, this grant will provide seed funding to help owners of existing homes install cost-effective energy efficiency improvements. The program will also encourage incentive programs with utility partners that help maintain a list of qualified contractors and provide a quality assurance service that verifies improvements have been properly installed. This program serves the population that doesn’t qualify for low-income weatherization services. For more information visit http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=home_improvement.hm_improvement_hpws.
This funding will provide education and training to local and state code enforcement officials responsible for residential and commercial building energy codes as well as funding for inspectors statewide to help achieve 90 percent compliance with new energy efficiency building codes within eight years.
Kentucky Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program ($4,096,000) Kentucky has received funding for a rebate program that will begin in the spring of 2010. Consumers who purchase an eligible ENERGY STAR appliance may be eligible for a rebate. Many major appliance groups will be eligible, with larger rebates going to products providing the largest energy savings. For more information, go to www.energy.ky.gov
Lee Colten (far right), with the Kentucky Department for Energy Development and Independence, presents a certificate of recognition to Bullitt County Freedom Elementary's receipt of the ENERGY STAR. Photo by DEDI
Kentucky has received funding for a rebate program that will begin in the spring of 2010. Consumers who purchase an eligible ENERGY STAR appliance may be eligible for a rebate. Many major appliance groups will be eligible, with larger rebates going to products providing the largest energy savings. For more information, go to www.energy.ky.gov grants and incentives to industries relocating or expanding operations in Kentucky that create or retain "green jobs" while saving energy and reducing carbon emissions. Grants and incentives encourage programs and projects that introduce and demonstrate advanced energy savings and clean energy technologies in industrial and manufacturing facilities.
This program, modeled after DOE’s Industrial Assessment Centers, would increase funding for the University of Louisville’s KPPC to perform energy analyses at industrial, commercial and institutional firms or organizations. The program would also conduct energy efficiency workshops for target groups. For more information visit http://louisville.edu/kppc/e2
The EEC is partnering with the Cabinet for Economic Development to provide energy efficiency and renewable energy grants and incentives to industries relocating or expanding operations in Kentucky that create or retain “green jobs” while saving energy and reducing carbon emissions. Grants and incentives encourage programs and projects that introduce and demonstrate advanced energy savings and clean energy technologies in industrial and manufacturing facilities.
The EEC is partnering with the National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt), a nonprofit consortium comprising more than 50 corporations and associations, to support the purchase and installation of commercially available energy efficiency and renewable energy equipment and materials, including reasonable design costs, for the construction of the advanced battery manufacturing facility to be built in Glendale, Ky. State-of-the-art energy saving and clean energy technologies incorporated into the facility will enhance its overall long-term