Comptroller Announces Teleconferences on Energy Efficiency Grants

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the Comptroller of Public Accounts’ State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) will receive approximately $45 million under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program to administer to cities and counties not receiving direct EECBG allocations from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). To see if your city or county received a direct EECBG allocation, please go to this Web site.

The EECBG program provides funds to units of local and state government, Indian tribes, and territories to develop and implement projects to improve energy efficiency and reduce energy use and fossil fuel emissions in their communities. This program is administered by the Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs (WIP) in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) of the DOE. While this program was authorized in Title V, Subtitle E of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) and signed into Public Law (PL 110-140) on December 19, 2007, it is being funded for the first time through ARRA. More information on this program can be found at the EECBG DOE Web site.

SECO will conduct a series of teleconferences to educate officials from cities and counties not eligible for direct DOE allocations on SECO’s proposed process to redistribute the funding it is receiving under this program as well as provide an update on other SECO ARRA activities including the State Energy Program.

The schedule for teleconferences is below.

• July 7, 3-4 p.m.

• July 8, 3-4 p.m.

• July 9, 10-11 a.m.

• July 10, 10-11 a.m.

More information on how to sign up for the teleconferences is available on SECO’s ARRA Web site.