Grant funding from the federal government will help Thurston County identify and fix energy wasting with county facilities.
The funding will also help with energy efficiency in new county developments and in designing accommodations for changing climate conditions.
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Sep. 14, 2009 at 2:40pm Federal dollars go to Thurston energy projectsScott Clark, the Strategic Planning director for the county, says the grant funding will come in two phases totaling $617,000. Department of Ecology distributed the first round of funds to Thurston Sept. 8 and will be used to perform energy audits on county facilities, develop green residential and commercial development code, and develop the county's climate change response plan. The second round of funds -- $232,000 through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act -- will be used to make energy efficiency improvements and retrofits to county facilities that were identified during the audits. The project is expected to get underway by mid October. Plenty more in the Archives The comments function of the Business Examiner community is meant to encourage conversations and spark ideas about business issues in the South Sound. The feature is free and open to members of the public who register basic log in information. Comments should be concise, on topic and avoid attacks, profanity or abusive language or content. Comments that are deemed to violate this policy will be removed. |
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