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September 29, 2022 – Clean Energy Workforce Development Grant

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The Smart Energy Initiative of Southeastern PA will be engaging local companies.

Read the announcement from the Pennsylvania Government website https://www.media.pa.gov/pages/Labor-and-Industry-details.aspx?newsid=680

Chester Workforce Development Board
This grant is for a program in Chester, Berks and Montgomery counties through the Chester County Economic Development Council’s (CCEDC) Smart Energy Initiative (SEI). The proposed clean energy workforce development program would build on SEI’s core mission and capacities: outreach, education, and recruitment of businesses, workforce development partners and individuals. The project’s commitment to support clean-energy businesses is equally a commitment to individuals with untapped and unidentified talent across Berks, Chester and Montgomery counties.

Learn more at the link below.

https://www.dli.pa.gov/Businesses/Workforce-Development/grants/Documents/Clean-Energy-NGA.pdf

For questions or additional information, email jlauckner@ccedcpa.com 

September 27, 2022 – Apply for the PA DEP Agriculture Energy Efficiency Rebate Program

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Apply for the PA DEP Agriculture Energy Efficiency Rebate Program

The PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)’s Agriculture Energy Efficiency Rebate program can help defray the costs of LED lighting, ventilation equipment, or dairy equipment upgrades for your farm. Applicants must meet the definition of a normal farming operation under Pennsylvania’s Right to Farm Law to be eligible for a rebate.

 Contact your regional PennTAP advisor to start determining eligibility.

Please call Jim Lauckner, SEI Project Consultant 610-321-8231 with questions.

October 4, 2022 – The Path to Net Zero Facilities – Part II – 8:45-10:30 a.m.

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High sustainability and resiliency goals have good merit and are the right thing to do for our environment, but they do not come easy and require sound planning, detailed studies, and a commitment to changing the way we produce, procure, and use energy in our facilities.

This second installment of the Path to Net Zero Facilities will focus on design consideration and site impacts, financing and grant opportunities and review of both constructability and return on investment (ROI).

Join us for breakfast and networking beginning at 8:15 a.m.

Solar and Energy Storage

Jim Kurtz, President – Founder – RER Energy Group

Geothermal Design Concepts, Site Hurdles and Constructability and Build Electrification

Scott White, Principal – Holstein White Inc.

CPACE, financing and Grants

Shelah Wallace, Director, Originations – Nuveen, LLC

Agenda:

  • 8:15 to 8:45 a.m. – Check-in (coffee and breakfast pastries will be served)
  • 8:45 to 10:15 a.m. – Program
  • 10:15-10:30 a.m. – Q&A Moderated by Michael Cromer, PG, DBIA, ENV SP, Vice President – Energy & Sustainability – Pennoni

New toolkit emphasizes the resiliency of modern building codes

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a Resilient Building Codes Toolkit to provide information to practitioners, elected officials, authorities having jurisdiction, the general public, and the building and construction sector on the aspects of resilience captured in provisions of modern building codes. The toolkit highlights the shifting building codes landscape from strictly a life safety focus to increased incorporation of both resilience and sustainability and also highlights the resilience measures captured throughout the International Code Council’s International Codes.

Read the article in the Building Safety Journal