Cindy Carr, cindy.carr@sierraclub.org
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority (PEDA) was awarded $156 million in funding through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund’s Solar For All program. The competition, created by President Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act, seeks to enable low-income and disadvantaged households across America to access the benefits of low-cost, clean solar energy—benefits that include home energy savings, energy resilience, improved air quality, wealth building, and quality jobs.
PEDA was one of 49 state-level awards, while six awards went to Tribes and five awards went to multistate applications. A full list of recipients of Solar For All awards can be found here. The climate law authorized $7 billion in funding for the program, but by last year’s deadline for applications, EPA had received requests totaling more than $38 billion.
In response, Sierra Club Pennsylvania Clean Energy Program Advocate Nate Reagle issued the following statement:
"The Solar for All award provides great potential to aid the development of community solar in Pennsylvania, which will benefit communities, workers, and the environment across the state. This opportunity to pair Solar for All funding with community solar is especially important when considering the equitable distribution of benefits to Pennsylvanians who do not have the ability to install rooftop solar panels.”
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