Allegheny County to dole out $8.1M in Recovery Act energy efficiency grants - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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million in Recovery Act energy efficiencyg grants among its own buildings and the municipalitieas underits umbrella. Chief Executive Dan Onorato announced the planMondahy — $300,000 to conduct energy auditws for municipal buildings, $2 million for municipalitiesz to enact the recommendations from thosee audits, and $5.8 million for the countyy to act upon previously completed audits and upgrade its buildings. Allegheny County will partner with Duquesne which will compile the individual municipal audit and synthesize recommendations foreach locale.
Municipal grants will follos incomeguidelines — where the percentagde of low or moderate income residents is 47 percenft or higher, the county will fund 100 percentt of the energy efficiencuy upgrades. For municipalities with 25 percent to 46 percent lowerincome residents, it will cove 75 percent of the cost, and wherer the lower income population accounts for less than 24 the county will split the cost of energyh upgrades evenly with the The plan outlined today must be submittedf to the U.S. Department of Energy by June 25.
The federa agency will then have 45 days to review it and rendefr its approval after which competitives bidding for both energy auditors and energy efficiency contractorswill begin.