{"id":5196,"date":"2021-02-25T11:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T16:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=5196"},"modified":"2021-02-25T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T18:37:02","slug":"maryland-energy-administration-winter-2021-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2021\/02\/25\/maryland-energy-administration-winter-2021-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Energy Administration Winter 2021 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Congratulations to the Maryland Energy Administration Employee of the Year Brandon Bowser. Read more about our 2020 Employee of the Year and all four of our quarterly award winners here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strategic Energy Investment Fund Powers Valuable State Energy Programs Supporting Clean Energy Advancement and Greenhouse Gas Reduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Earlier this month, MEA launched a new blog series entitled, \u201cMaryland Energy Data Points\u201d to explore how energy initiatives are impacting the lives of Marylanders. Most of the funding for MEA programs comes from the <\/span>Strategic Energy Investment Fund (SEIF)<\/b><\/a> which MEA administers. SEIF funds enable meaningful state energy programs that spur clean energy advancements and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Without SEIF funding many energy-related savings opportunities for residents, businesses, local governments and nonprofits will be lost. Innovative programs, such as the Data Center Energy Efficiency and Resilient Maryland will be halted. Read more here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Maryland Clean Fuels Incentive \u201cGreens\u201d Transportation Awarding $1.3 Million; Largest Electric School Bus Deployment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\u00a0Clean Fuels Incentive Program (CFIP)\u200b<\/a>, created and managed by the\u00a0Maryland Energy Administration (MEA)<\/a>, supports both the purchase of fleet alternative fuel vehicles and funding to expand the state\u2019s alternative fueling infrastructure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions via proven technology. The CFIP is designed to permanently \u201cgreen\u201d Maryland\u2019s transportation profile, which will improve air quality by reducing consumption of fossil fuels. The fiscal year 2021 (FY21) CFIP awards of $1.3M will fund an array of clean fuel projects across the state, including one of the largest electric school bus deployments in the country. Read more here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Plan for Maryland\u2019s Electric Grid of the Future<\/b><\/p>\n

Rethinking Maryland\u2019s electric grid is essential to improve functionality and flexibility to better serve electricity customers. MEA and the Maryland Public Service Commission have been working on a task force with national energy organizations for the past two years to help plan for Maryland\u2019s next electric grid. Learn more <\/span>here<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Do you have questions about the #TexasBlackout? We have info and insights into the frozen grid in Texas and talk about the importance of having a capacity market<\/strong><\/a> like we have here in Maryland. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Maryland Energy Administration Celebrates Women & Girls in Science<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Maryland Ranks 4th in First Ever National Transportation Scorecard<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

New Energy and Ventilation Assistance for Maryland Manufacturers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Maryland Energy Administration Announces New Commercial Biomass Feasibility Study<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the Maryland Energy Administration Employee of the Year Brandon Bowser. Read more about our 2020 Employee of the Year and all four of our quarterly award winners here. Strategic Energy Investment Fund Powers Valuable State Energy Programs Supporting Clean Energy Advancement and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Earlier this month,  …Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":5222,"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":[232,223,203,229,137,227,157,233,231,126,176,156],"class_list":["post-5196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-main","category-news","category-newsletters","tag-232","tag-electric-bus","tag-electric-grid","tag-employee-of-the-year","tag-energy-news","tag-maryland-energy-administration","tag-maryland-women-in-energy","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-seif","tag-strategic-energy-investment-fund","tag-women-in-energy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196","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=5196"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5227,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions\/5227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}