TNI Clean Energy Grant Program Overview Denies Fix Income P.G. County Residents

Hosted By: Ronald Bethea

Background

The Transformation Neighborhoods Initiative (TNI) focuses on uplifting neighborhoods in Price George’s County that face significant economic, health, public safety, and educational challenges. Via the initiative, the County is working to improve the quality of life in those neighborhoods, while identifying ways to improve service delivery throughout the county for all residents.

The TNI Clean Energy Program builds on the Transforming Neighborhoods Initiative, and seeks to help alleviate efficiency challenges faced by County residents. Taking the link between energy efficiency and social inequality to hart, and helping to break the cycle of energy inefficiency and energy poverty, the TNI energy grants are to assist TNI residents with adopting energy efficiency and water efficiency measures, and for subsequent access to rooftop solar photovoltaics upon the successful implementation of efficiency measures.

Program Objectives

Funds can be used to offset the costs of various energy efficiency, water efficiency,and retrofitting measures, and for professional services needed to address the barriers to efficiency and/or solar energy for the respective property.

Participants in the TNI Clean Energy Grant Program, are required to apply to the applicable EmPOWER Maryland incentive program: for market rate applicants, Pepco’s Home performance with ENERGY STAR Program, or for income-qualified applicants, the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development’s (DHCD) Low Income Energy Efficiency Program