The funding totals over $4.2 million and has pulled in more than $8.2
million in private and other public investment. The 41 projects are
estimated to create 68 jobs and save 92 jobs.
Here's a sampling
of the 41 projects to receive grants and loans. In Middlebury, a
developer will use a $29,913 grant and $44,869 loan to reduce energy
usage through upgrades to insulation, windows, HVAC and lighting to the
former Middlebury train depot, while restoring the building using state
and federal historic preservation tax credits.
A chiropractor in
Westminster received a $28,200 renewable energy loan and $24,000 grant
for a 10kW solar photovoltaic system, a three-ton ground source
geothermal heat pump and a woodstove. The installation of these
renewable energy systems in her chiropractic office will produce a
combined 30kWh of replacement energy.
Vermont Wood Pellet in
North Clarendon will use a $100,000 loan and $50,000 grant to purchase
and install a Drum Dryer unit for producing wood pellets.
Four
Hills Farm in Bristol will use a $575,000 loan and $500,000 grant for a
450 kW anaerobic digester system to generate electricity from manure
for on-farm hot water and heat, and produce bedding for farm use and
sale to nearby farms and nurseries.
Audet's Cow Power in
Bridport was awarded a $572,000 loan and $286,023 grant to increase its
renewable energy generation with an additional 125kWh anaerobic digester
system.
Addison Solar Farm in Ferrisburgh will install 5,200
individual 200-watt solar panels attached to a fixed ground mounting
system. The one megawatt installation will be one of the largest solar
electric generation farms in the Northeast. The project was selected for
a $1.5 million guaranteed loan.
As the list above indicates
(and with apologies to the ASPCA -- and my cat) there are better ways to
skin the cat of our reliance on fossil fuels than to desecrate
Vermont's mountaintops.
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