{"id":1274,"date":"2017-09-11T10:49:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T14:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2017-09-11T10:49:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T14:49:49","slug":"maryland-energy-administration-fy18-commercial-industrial-grant-program-opens-for-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2017\/09\/11\/maryland-energy-administration-fy18-commercial-industrial-grant-program-opens-for-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Energy Administration FY18 Commercial &amp; Industrial Grant Program Opens for Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/c-and-i-lady.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1277\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/c-and-i-lady-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/c-and-i-lady-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/c-and-i-lady-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/c-and-i-lady-1024x679.png 1024w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/c-and-i-lady.png 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) is pleased to announce the opening of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTcwOTExLjc3OTYwMDAxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE3MDkxMS43Nzk2MDAwMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2OTUwNTYxJmVtYWlsaWQ9a2F5bWllLm93ZW5AbWFyeWxhbmQuZ292JnVzZXJpZD1rYXltaWUub3dlbkBtYXJ5bGFuZC5nb3YmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;http:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/business\/Pages\/incentives\/empowermdcigp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FY18 Commercial and Industrial Grant Program<\/a>. MEA will provide competitive grant awards to implement and showcase ambitious upgrades to commercial and industrial buildings that reduce electricity usage by 15% or more. To encourage the deepest possible energy savings, award amounts will be calculated at rates based upon three (3) tiers of electricity savings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tier 1 \u2013 15% &#8211; 20% Electricity Savings: Up to 30% of net total project cost (after the deduction of incentives, rebates, and other leveraged funds), or $125,000, whichever is lower<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Tier 2 \u2013 20.1% &#8211; 25% Electricity Savings: Up to 40% of net total project cost (after the deduction of incentives, rebates, and other leveraged funds), or $150,000, whichever is lower<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Tier 3 \u2013 25.1%+ Electricity Savings: Up to 50% of net total project cost (after the deduction of incentives, rebates, and other leveraged funds), or $175,000, whichever is lower<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applications are due to MEA by\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">5:00 P.M.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Tuesday, October 31, 2017<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong>Awards will be issued on a competitive basis after careful review by MEA.<\/p>\n<p>MEA will host a webinar on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday, September 27, 2017 from 2:00 P.M. \u2013 3:30 P.M.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Please\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTcwOTExLjc3OTYwMDAxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE3MDkxMS43Nzk2MDAwMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2OTUwNTYxJmVtYWlsaWQ9a2F5bWllLm93ZW5AbWFyeWxhbmQuZ292JnVzZXJpZD1rYXltaWUub3dlbkBtYXJ5bGFuZC5nb3YmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;https:\/\/srameeting.webex.com\/mw3000\/mywebex\/default.do?nomenu=true&amp;siteurl=srameeting&amp;service=6&amp;rnd=0.02745808826931384&amp;main_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsrameeting.webex.com%2Fec3000%2Feventcenter%2Fevent%2FeventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26%26%26EMK%3D4832534b00000004729ed89b9ecd693f6bb5e54162bd46bc34e4418a01f4ba9859163c4dc75e7dee%26siteurl%3Dsrameeting%26confViewID%3D2707088306%26encryptTicket%3DSDJTSwAAAATFrgLzRbplIyBQUQYQ0Y41Pm1LB_LFs3rmedLKxL_rqw2%26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>\u00a0to sign up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) is pleased to announce the opening of the\u00a0FY18 Commercial and Industrial Grant Program. MEA will provide competitive grant awards to implement and showcase ambitious upgrades to commercial and industrial buildings that reduce electricity usage by 15% or more. To encourage the deepest possible energy savings,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2017\/09\/11\/maryland-energy-administration-fy18-commercial-industrial-grant-program-opens-for-applications\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,25,10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-main","category-news","category-newsletters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}