{"id":601,"date":"2010-07-30T14:54:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T19:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2010-09-02T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T20:14:30","slug":"massachusetts-green-communities-receive-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/massachusetts-green-communities-receive-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Green Communities receive grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 14th, Governor Patrick announced <strong>$8.1 million in Green Communities grants<\/strong>.  These grants for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects went to the Massachusetts towns and cities that were the first to step up to becoming <b>Massachusetts Green Communities.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at what some of our comparable communities received:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Acton:<\/b> $150,794 for energy conservation measures at the public library, an HVAC analysis of town hall, tankless hot water heaters and an energy education and outreach program<\/li>\n<li><b>Andover:<\/b> $160,329 for a municipal lighting retrofit project<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arlington:<\/strong> $200,188 to improve energy efficiency of lighting and steam traps, and for an energy management system at the Hardy School\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hopkinton:<\/strong> $137,502 for various municipal building energy efficiency measures<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lexington:<\/strong> $158,083 to buy down the cost of a solar PV project for multiple municipal buildings\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lincoln:<\/strong> $140,294 for school and other town building energy efficiency measures\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Newton:<\/strong> $179,500 to be leveraged with other funding to do energy efficiency measures as part of an energy managements services contract\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Natick:<\/strong> $173,526 for a solar PV power purchase agreement at the middle school, for the incremental cost of hybrid vehicles, and for carbon dioxide sensors at town hall\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/letter-to-the-board-of-selectmen-on-becoming-a-green-community\/\"><strong>working to make Needham a Massachusetts Green Community<\/strong><\/a> so that next time, Needham is on that list of grant recipients.  <\/p>\n<p>The Green Communities program is funded at $10 million per year from the proceeds of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.greenneedham.org\/gnc\/index.php\/Massachusetts\/RGGI\">RGGI greenhouse gas auctions<\/a> that take place four times a year &#8211; a dedicated funding source not subject to legislative or executive cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Green Communities receive $8.1 million in grants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-communities-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}