The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday launched a USD-7-billion (EUR 6.4bn) grant competition to expand solar to millions of homes in low-income communities.
The Solar for All competition is funded by the Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF).
EPA plans to make up to 60 awards, providing funds to states, territories, tribal governments, municipalities and eligible nonprofits to create or expand low-income solar programmes. These programmes offer financing and technical assistance, such as workforce development, to allow low-income and disadvantaged communities to take advantage of residential solar.
The deadline for applications is September 26.
EPA said it will also launch in the coming weeks a USD-14-billion National Clean Investment Fund (NCIF) grant competition to back the deployment of clean technologies nationwide and a USD-6-billion Clean Communities Investment Accelerator (CCIA) grant competition to build local clean financing capacity through community lenders. These opportunities come under the USD-27-billion GGRF created by the Inflation Reduction Act.
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