{"id":2324,"date":"2018-11-29T13:29:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T18:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2022-03-21T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:11:38","slug":"2019-solar-canopy-ev-charging-program-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2018\/11\/29\/2019-solar-canopy-ev-charging-program-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Solar Canopy EV Charging Program Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
\nContact:\u00a0Jahmai Sharp-Moore<\/a> | 443-694-3651<\/p>\n

Baltimore, MD <\/b>\u2013 The Maryland Energy Administration today announced grant recipients for the Fiscal Year 2019 Solar Canopy with Electric Vehicle Charger Program (parking lot PV\/EV Program). This program combines two corresponding technologies, solar photovoltaic (PV) and electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. Since Governor Larry Hogan took office in January of 2015, the state has almost quadrupled Maryland\u2019s solar energy output from 258 megawatts to 1,000 megawatts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis energy-generating program offers a wide variety of incentives for Maryland businesses, nonprofits, and residents alike,\u201d said Governor Hogan. \u201cSolar is an important part of our state\u2019s renewable energy goals, and our administration is committed to further encouraging growth in this industry while expanding access for our citizens.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This grant program delivers clean energy to the host facility that will reduce electricity demand from the grid. This year, 10 grants for the program were awarded. As a result, 2019 grantees will construct an additional 10,931 kilowatts of renewable solar energy, and 47 new EV chargers will be added to the state\u2019s charging network. The solar canopy program began in 2014 and has helped to fund 24 projects in Maryland to date. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis program was carefully crafted to combine clean energy generation, and expand EV charging options for drivers,\u201d said Mary Beth Tung, Director of the Maryland Energy Administration. \u00a0\u201cThe potential for this program is massive, especially in Maryland\u2019s urban areas. It solves energy access issues in a cost-effective way.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Maryland has thousands of acres of parking lot space in suburban\/urban areas. Parking lots represent an exceptional opportunity; by placing solar PV canopies on parking pads, the canopies provide power to the facilities accompanying the lots and provide shade and snow protection for vehicles. The parking lot PV\/EV program addresses challenges faced by solar developers in building these canopies, specifically, the additional costs of the canopy structure.<\/span><\/p>\n

IKEA Baltimore and IKEA College Park \u00a0will purchase and install two solar canopy structures over their parking areas that will total 2,576.70 kilowatts. \u00a0IKEA\u2019s 2019 solar canopy grant of $400,000 dollars supplements existing rooftop solar arrays which more than doubles each location\u2019s green energy generation. \u00a0In addition to the increased solar energy, a total of eight new EV chargers will be added for customer and employee use. Both installations are being developed by REC Solar and will be highly visible to automobile traffic near the store. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

North Harford High School, in Harford County Public Schools district, is the first high school to have a solar canopy in the state\u2019s program. The school will host a 500.25 kilowatt solar canopy and the EV chargers under the canopy will be open to all for use. \u00a0The system will be owned and installed by Pfister Energy of Baltimore under a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). A PPA is a financial agreement where a developer arranges for the design, permitting, financing, and installation of a solar energy system on a customer’s property at little to no upfront cost. <\/span><\/p>\n

Maryland\u2019s Seventh Day Adventist Church will install two solar canopy structures, one at their General Conference headquarters in Columbia, Md. and a second solar canopy at their North American Division\u00a0<\/span>building in Silver Spring, Md. The two combined solar structures will total 3,329 kilowatts and will be owned and installed by Standard Solar via a PPA.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ultimate goal of this grant program is to increase awareness and acceptance of the solar canopy and electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and to encourage incorporation of these technologies in the parking lot design process. Funding for the program comes from the Strategic Energy Investment Fund, which is funded by public auctions of carbon credits through the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. A list of awards can be found here: Parking Lot Solar PV Canopy with EV Charger Grant Program 2019 Award Listing FINAL<\/a>\u00a0For more information on the program please us online<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>
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Maryland Energy Administration <\/b>
\n<\/b>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\u00a0<\/span>To 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’s economy: Residential, Commercial, Agricultural, and Transportation. <\/span>For more information about the Maryland Energy Administration, visit <\/span>www.energy.maryland.gov<\/span><\/a> and follow us on <\/span>Facebook<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Twitter<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:\u00a0Jahmai Sharp-Moore | 443-694-3651 Baltimore, MD \u2013 The Maryland Energy Administration today announced grant recipients for the Fiscal Year 2019 Solar Canopy with Electric Vehicle Charger Program (parking lot PV\/EV Program). This program combines two corresponding technologies, solar photovoltaic (PV) and electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. Since  …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-2324","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\/2324","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=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}