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星期四, 2月 02, 2017

REPRESENTATIVE ULTRINO ANNOUNCES $332,540 GREEN COMMUNITIES GRANT FOR MALDEN

REPRESENTATIVE ULTRINO ANNOUNCES $332,540 GREEN COMMUNITIES GRANT FOR MALDENMalden receives second-highest grant award out of 30 cities

BOSTON – State Representative Steve Ultrino (D – Malden) announced today that Malden has been designated a Green Community and has received a $332,540 grant from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER). Malden is one of thirty new Green Communities, a designation earned by municipalities committing to an ambitious renewable energy agenda to reduce energy consumption and emissions. The 30 new Green Communities are now eligible for grants totaling $6,460,385 to complete renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in their communities. Since the program began in 2010, DOER’s Green Communities division has awarded over $65 million in grant funding to the Commonwealth’s cities and town through designation and competitive grant rounds. In this year’s round of new cities, Malden received the second highest amount awarded to any of the 30 cities.

“Becoming a Green Community represents a major achievement in Malden’s energy and environmental objectives. This money will help Malden expand efforts to conserve energy, cut costs, and protect our environment,” saidRepresentative Ultrino. “This grant award will benefit all of Malden’s residents for years to come, and the Green Communities designation will allow Malden to compete for future grants as well.”

The Commonwealth’s 185 Green Communities range from the Berkshires to Cape Cod and are home to 64 percent of Massachusetts’ population in municipalities as large as Boston and as small as Rowe. Under the Green Communities Act, cities and towns must meet five criteria to be designated a Green Community and receive funding, including reducing municipal energy consumption by 20 percent over five years. The newly designated Green Communities have committed to reducing their energy consumption amounting to savings of $6,241,862 of energy costs and 2,234,090 MMBtu in five years, energy use equivalent to heating and powering nearly 2,718 homes, and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 27,641 metric tons, equivalent to taking 5,819 cars off the roads.

Under the Green Communities Act, DOER’s Green Communities Designation and Grant Program can provide up to $20 million annually to qualified cities and towns.  The goal of the Designation Grant Program is support communities’ investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects that further the clean energy goals determined by the designated communities. 

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