{"id":2226,"date":"2018-11-01T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2022-03-21T09:12:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:12:24","slug":"maryland-announces-resiliency-hub-program-to-serve-low-to-moderate-income-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2018\/11\/01\/maryland-announces-resiliency-hub-program-to-serve-low-to-moderate-income-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Announces Resiliency Hub Program to Serve Low-to-Moderate Income Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/>\nContact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jahmai.sharp-moore@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jahmai Sharp-Moore<\/a> | 443-694-3651<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baltimore, MD\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) today announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/Pages\/Resiliency-Hub.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Resiliency Hub Program<\/a>, a new initiative serving Maryland&#8217;s low-to-moderate income residents that will provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy during power outages. Resiliency Hubs provide power to residents in the event of a power outage occurs. The total grant funding is $5 million and the application deadline is March 1, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpanding relief options for residents impacted by a power grid outage is a paramount health and safety issue,\u201d stated Mary Beth Tung, MEA Director. \u201cHaving a building in the community with sustained electrical power can ensure at risk people are safe in overheated or freezing apartments, temperature sensitive medications are preserved, and communications are maintained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grant funding will be provided on a competitive basis to support the solar arrays and energy storage battery systems for identified resiliency hub locations. Program funding ranges from $1,300 per kilowatt to $2,000 per kilowatt with the maximum grant amount capped at $501,000 per project.<\/p>\n<p>The location of resiliency hubs will be coordinated with local governments to address sustainability and emergency preparedness issues. Local governments, businesses and non-profit organizations will be eligible for the grants. For full details on this program, click <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/Pages\/Resiliency-Hub.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. To learn more about other MEA programs, click <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/Pages\/all-incentives.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maryland Energy Administration<br \/>\n<\/strong>On behalf of Governor Hogan the mission of the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) is to promote affordable, reliable and cleaner energy for the benefit of all Marylanders.\u00a0\u00a0To achieve its mission, MEA advises the Governor, General Assembly on matters relating to energy policy.\u00a0 MEA administers grant and loan programs to encourage clean energy technologies in all sectors of Maryland&#8217;s economy: Residential, Commercial, Agricultural, and Transportation. For more information about the Maryland Energy Administration, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.maryland.gov\">www.energy.maryland.gov<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MDEnergyAdministration\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MDEnergy\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company-beta\/417595\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:\u00a0Jahmai Sharp-Moore | 443-694-3651 Baltimore, MD\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) today announced the Resiliency Hub Program, a new initiative serving Maryland&#8217;s low-to-moderate income residents that will provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy during power outages. Resiliency Hubs provide power to residents in the event of a power<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2018\/11\/01\/maryland-announces-resiliency-hub-program-to-serve-low-to-moderate-income-community\/\">&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":[42,25,10,26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-main","category-news","category-newsletters","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226","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=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5876,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}