Tampa Representative Kathy Castor introduced $156.1 million in federal grant funding from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the Florida Solar for All Coalition to speed up the deployment of photo voltaic power all through the state, together with in communities that historical past has not offered.
The grant funding that can profit Florida is permitted by means of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund of the Inflation Reduction Act.
“Cleaner, cheaper photo voltaic power is the important thing to decreasing electrical energy payments, rising power reliability, and lowering the air pollution that’s driving the prices of the local weather disaster,” mentioned Rep. Castor, a Democrat. “These necessary investments will assist extra Florida households reap the benefits of the price financial savings of photo voltaic and create good-paying jobs. It’s long gone time we harnessed the ability of the solar within the Sunshine State, and I’m thrilled to skilled nonprofit champions Solar United Neighbors, the Solar Energy Loan Fund and The Nature Conservancy of Florida will assist cleared the path.
The EPA introduced the 60 chosen to obtain $7 billion in grant awards by means of the Solar for All grant competitors to ship residential photo voltaic tasks to greater than 900,000 properties nationwide.
Federal funding seeks to create long-term photo voltaic initiatives that allow low-income and impoverished communities to deploy and profit from distributed residential photo voltaic.
Rep. Castor has been a frontrunner in advancing investments in clear, renewable solar energy within the Sunshine State. As chair of the previous Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, Castor really helpful that Congress create a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, together with photo voltaic initiatives, to start out investing in clear power.
