{"id":342,"date":"2015-08-26T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=342"},"modified":"2019-11-06T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:23:05","slug":"mea-empowers-clean-energy-communities-and-visionary-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2015\/08\/26\/mea-empowers-clean-energy-communities-and-visionary-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"MEA Grants Help Clean Energy Communities and visionary artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_341\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/08\/avammeyerscrop3x5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-341\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-341\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/08\/avammeyerscrop3x5-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"American Visionary Art Museum\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/08\/avammeyerscrop3x5-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/08\/avammeyerscrop3x5.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Visionary Art Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For Baltimore\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avam.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Visionary Art Museum<\/a>, replacing the HVAC chiller to the 15-year-old exhibition building was a critical fix. Besides cooling its more than 100,000 annual visitors, the museum is responsible for the preservation of a vast collection of visionary art.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Adams, the museum\u2019s Director of Development, identifies the museum as a \u201cstorehouse for intuitive, self-taught artists\u201d and notes that AVAM is the \u201conly museum of its kind in the country.\u201d She says, \u201cIt is imperative we maintain care of the collection.\u201d Temperature and humidity are concerns for the curators of this unique collection.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>AVAM received a $40,000 grant through the<a href=\"http:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/Govt\/empowercleanenergycommunities.html\">\u00a0 Clean Energy Communities Grant program<\/a>. In addition to replacing the chiller, the funds are being used to seal the roofing connection to further preserve interior climate conditions. These energy efficiency improvements, which are also partially funded by a zero-interest <a href=\"http:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/Govt\/janeelawton.html\">Jane E. Lawton Conservation Loan<\/a> from the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA), contributed to energy savings estimated at 78,000 kWh every year, which would translate to an annual savings of more than $9,000*.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, \u201cMEA sparked our conversations about energy savings,\u201d says Adams. AVAM is actively seeking ways to incorporate further efficiency improvements throughout its campus. The museum has recently pursued a comprehensive energy efficiency audit, and \u201cas soon as we get that energy audit,\u201d Adams says, \u201cI think we\u2019ll be able to rock and roll with a lot of projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adams\u2019 has a newfound excitement for energy efficiency. \u201cAt AVAM, we\u2019re all about creative acts of all sorts,\u201d she says. \u201cIf that comes as financial savings and sustainability, that\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>*$9,165 is based on a commercial rate of 11.75 cents per kWh per<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Baltimore\u2019s American Visionary Art Museum, replacing the HVAC chiller to the 15-year-old exhibition building was a critical fix. Besides cooling its more than 100,000 annual visitors, the museum is responsible for the preservation of a vast collection of visionary art. Katie Adams, the museum\u2019s Director of Development, identifies the<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2015\/08\/26\/mea-empowers-clean-energy-communities-and-visionary-artists\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"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":[3],"tags":[24,5,12,19],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-success-stories","tag-clean","tag-energy","tag-power","tag-renewable"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}