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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2008
CONTACTS:
Megan Castle, (303)
866-2262
"THE GOVERNOR'S ENERGY
OFFICE SELECTS SOLAR INNOVATORS"
DENVER - The Governor's
Energy Office (GEO) today announced that four
solar innovators were
awarded grants to promote new solar technologies
and programs to benefit
Colorado's homes and business.
"These innovators are
building Colorado's New Energy Economy by
developing projects that
will harness more of our state's abundant
solar resources," said
Tom Plant, director of the GEO.
The selected projects
will help train Colorado's solar energy
workforce, provide solar
for low-income homes, promote solar programs
to utilities for Demand
Side Management programs, and create a solar
utility co-op farm. All
grant awards were contingent upon a 100%
match from the applicant,
allowing the GEO to directly leverage the
GEO's $181,995 of Clean
Energy Funds. The grantees are:
Red Rocks Community
College: Develop a training program that will
prepare students and
professionals to sit for existing state and
national solar
photovoltaic and solar thermal certifications. The GEO
granted $50,000.
Contact: Paulann Doane, 303-914-6425 or
paulann.doane@rrcc.edu.
Habitat for Humanity -
Metro Denver: Develop and implement a solar
installation pilot that
would result in 11 new homes with photovoltaic
systems solar, with the
goal of including solar on all new homes by
2010. The GEO granted
$42,000. Contact: Phillip C. Watkins,
303-534-2929 or
chuck@habitatmetrodenver.org.
Millennium Energy, LLC:
Develop a model based upon real system
installation data for
solar hot water heating installations for
utility natural gas
Demand Side Management programs. The GEO granted
$49,995. Contact:
Joseph D. Bourg, 303-526-2972 or
jbourg@q.com.
NEO-West: Develop a
report focusing on finance and development models
for large, greater
than 400 kW, photovoltaic solar projects. The
program will focus on
rural Colorado, working with Colorado's rural
electric associations,
and with consideration of local ownership or
community
opportunities. The GEO granted $40,000. Contact: Brad
Haight,
303-623-3202 or
bhaight@neo-west.com.
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