Grant Funding

$2,282,173 TOTAL

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2011 Grant Awards: $665,173

North Carolina State Energy Office
$307,840 FUNDED
RED City commercial energy efficiency project to upfit vintage Packard Place in uptown Charlotte, NC with solar power and building envelope improvements totaling $615,115 for 90,000 SQ FT facility, cutting annual energy use by 6.3 billion BTUs and saving $46,000/YR in energy costs.

North Carolina State Energy Office
$157,333 FUNDED
Johnson C. Smith University renovated student union and residence hall in historic urban campus in Charlotte, NC with energy efficiency improvement project totaling $305,333, cutting annual energy use by 2.0 billion BTUs.

North Carolina State Energy Office
$200,000 FUNDED
Calor Energy is developing a 1 MW solar installation for an industrial facility in Burke County, NC. The grant was awarded to support development costs and business-to-business outreach to increase awareness about financing strategies for solar power.

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 Pending 2011 Grant Applications
Total approximately $427 K for $617 K in project cost:

North Carolina State Energy Office
$116,785
23 Sites Statewide -Convenience Station Lighting Energy Efficiency for Private Sector Commercial Facility

North Carolina State Energy Office
$310,290
Warehouse Indoor Lighting Energy Efficiency for Private Sector Industrial Facility

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2010 Grant Awards: $581,000

NC State Energy Office
$311,000 FUNDED
A clean fuels project for reLOAD, LLC to construct a $873K 84 MG ethanol transloading station in the Gaston County community of Ranlo, NC.

NC State Energy Office
$200,000 FUNDED
Central Piedmont Community College (team collaboration) lighting retrofits, student parking deck at Central Campus; retro-commission HVAC system, Harper Campus; retro-commission Central Energy Plant, plus installing energy-saving hardware

Women’s Impact Fund
$70,000 FUNDED
Community Garden (Slow Food Charlotte-Friendship Trays team collaboration)

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2009 Grant Awards: $1,036,000

NC Green Business Fund
$85,000 FUNDED
and
NC Biofuels Center
$100,000 FUNDED
Feasibility Study: Greater Charlotte Region Biodiesel Facility
(Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities Department/University of North Carolina at Charlotte/Central Piedmont Community College/Centralina Council of Governments team collaboration)

US Department of Energy ARRA Stimulus
$751,000 FUNDED
County-Wide Energy Efficiency Initiative
Union County, NC Board of County Commissioners

NC Green Business Fund
$100,000 FUNDED
Grady’s Biofuel Business
Gaston County enterprise launch for local biofuels production facility.