The Department of Environmental Protection has awarded $239,809 in grants to help 32 small businesses across Pennsylvania invest in energy-efficiency or pollution-prevention projects.
?Becoming energy-efficient can involve an initial up-front investment that will be proportionally higher for small businesses,? DEP Secretary Mike Krancer said. ?The investment will pay for itself and more over time, but this program makes that transition more doable for Pennsylvania?s small business owners.?
Pennsylvania?s Small Business Advantage Grant program, funded through the Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act, helps businesses with 100 or fewer employees. It provides 50-percent matching reimbursement grants of up to $9,500 to implement projects that will save 25 percent annually in pollution-prevention or energy-related costs. Since 2004, the program has invested $7.25 million in 1,720 small businesses statewide.
Of the $1 million in grants budgeted for the current fiscal year, this is the second of three announcements of selected grantees. The 32 new grants will create $812,987 of private-sector investment in small businesses.
Examples of eligible projects include high-efficiency HVAC and insulation upgrades, high-efficiency lighting to save energy, installation of energy-efficient heat pumps and new auxiliary power units that help large trucks reduce time spent with idling engines.
For more information about the Small Business Advantage Grant program, contact DEP?s Office of the Small Business Ombudsman at 717-772-8909 or via email at epadvantagegrant@pa.gov.
The information above provided by the Department of Environmental Protection.
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