Department of Development Recovery | Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants

Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program Awards

The projects listed below have been selected for grant awards in a competitive process through solicitations released in accordance with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program. For more information on the program, please visit: http://www.development.ohio.gov/recovery/EnergyEfficiencyConservationBlockGrants.htm

Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant - Local Governments Funding Opportunity Grantees

Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant - State Government Agencies and Institutions of Higher Education

 

Cities:

  • City of Athens (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $362,000 to replace lighting, motors, heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system, and other equipment at the waste water treatment plant.

  • City of Bryan (Street Lighting) - $540,000 to replace 1,246 street lamps and ballasts with more energy-efficient lighting. The city estimates a savings of more than $1 million after 16 years through reduced maintenance and operations costs.

  • City of Cambridge (Energy Efficiency Retrofit & Street Lighting) - $413,177 for the installation of energy efficient lighting, building controls and mechanical upgrades in seven city buildings, including city hall, fire department, armory, street department, water treatment plant, water distribution garage, and sewage treatment plant. The measures were selected from a comprehensive energy audit completed in 2009.

  • City of Defiance/Defiance Public Library (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $300,00 to replace the existing steam boilers that have pneumatic controls and install a variable refrigerator flow zoning HVAC system with a centralized web access monitors and controls.

  • City of Kent (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $501,517 for the installation of a myriad of energy efficiency upgrades in ten city buildings, including lighting retrofits, upgraded heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system with automated controls, load-managing device sensors on vending machines, two hot water boilers, and many other improvements.

  • City of Marietta (Energy Efficiency Retrofits and Renewable Energy Technologies) - $461,144 for the installation of many energy efficiency improvements to the Armory Square facility, including a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system, windows and doors, high efficiency lighting, and roofing insulation. In addition, a 21.3 kilowatt solar electric system will provide on-site power and serve as an educational tool for visitors.

  • City of Powell (Energy Efficiency Retrofits and Renewable Energy Technologies) - $821,861 for a major lighting retrofit to include the installation of light emitting diode (LED) bulbs and light sensors along with a 77 kilowatt solar electric system on the roof of the municipal building. The city estimates that an annual savings of $18,500.

  • City of Rossford I (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $52,700 to replace the heating and air conditioning systems at the City’s Municipal Complex for both the Administrative Building and the Maintenance Building

  • City of Rossford II (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $210,474 to upgrade to more efficient street lighting, traffic & pedestrian signal heads, and school zone flashers.

  • City of Steubenville (Traffic Signals and Street Lighting) - $579,520 to upgrade its 25-year old city lighting system by replacing 340 street lights and 898 traffic signals with energy-efficient light emitting diode (LED) bulbs. The city estimates annual savings of $96,847.

  • City of Upper Sandusky (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $144,862 to replace motors & lighting equipment and to install occupancy sensors at the city's waste water treatment facility, replace indoor and outdoor lighting in the city's public safety building, and replace traffic signal and street lighting with LED bulbs.

  • City of Wilmington (Renewable Energy Technologies) - $299,040 for the installation of a 58.3 kilowatt solar electric system at their waste water treatment facility.

Counties:

  • Auglaize County (Energy Efficiency Retrofits, Energy Distribution, & Renewable Energy Technology) - $1,306,854 to renovate the county courthouse with upgrades to the lighting, heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system and the installation of 20 kilowatt solar electric system.

  • Carroll County (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $542,000 for upgrades to the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system and lighting in the county courthouse and nursing home.

  • Champaign County (Energy Efficiency Retrofit) - $342,166 to upgrade the electrical and mechanical systems of the Lawnview Child and Family Center with the installation of a variable refrigerant flow system designed with inverter technology to maximize energy efficiency.

  • Clinton County (Renewable Energy Technologies) - $340,175 for the installation of a 58.3 kilowatt solar electric system at the county jail.

  • Coshocton County (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $479,298 for upgrades to the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system and lighting along with installation of load-managing controls on vending machines in 12 county buildings. The county estimates an annual savings of $34,965.

  • Darke County (Energy Efficiency Retrofit) - $160,248 to install energy efficient lighting and to upgrade of the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system at the Anthony Wayne Early Childhood Center and Wayne Industries facilities.

  • Hancock County (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $272,661 to upgrade the lighting system and replace furnaces in buildings on the county Job and Family Services campus.

  • Lucas County (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $160,000 for interconnecting the boiler systems, which operate in two buildings, to allow the more efficient boiler to supply the majority of the heating load for both buildings and the flexibility to rely on one boiler or the other during maintenance.

  • Lucas County (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $700,000 for the installation of building controls that allows for the real-time control of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning equipment. These controls will result in an estimated 20 percent reduction in operational cost of the equipment.

  • Mahoning County (Energy Distribution) - $2,608,385 to replace the steam boiler system at Oak Hill Renaissance Place with modular, high-efficiency boilers that serve nine designated areas of the facility.

  • Meigs County (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $260,942 for upgrades to heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system in county buildings that includes the installation of condensing water heaters and hydronic boilers.

  • Muskingum County (Energy Efficiency Retrofit) - $1,265,544 to renovate a former Junior High School building that includes an absorption cooling system. This facility will house the Muskingum County Business Incubator, which will use the cost saving results from the energy improvements to train business owners on implementing similar measures.

  • Trumbull County (Renewable Energy Technologies) - $302,802 to install at 43.2 kilowatt solar electric system on roof of the Job and Family Services building.

  • Tuscarawas County (Energy Efficiency Retrofit) - $165,300 to replace and install efficient boilers with controls, an efficient chiller, air-handler motors, variable frequency drives, and cold/chilled water circulating pumps at the County’s Annex building.

  • Union County (Energy Efficiency Retrofit) - $314,844 to upgrade the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system and controls at the county courthouse.

  • Vinton County (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $817,663 to replace the existing boiler heating system in the courthouse with a new high efficiency variable refrigerant flow zone system.
  • Wood County (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $173,097 to replace less efficient boilers at the county jail with condensing boilers, which will maximize fuel efficiency.

  • Wood County (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $512,845 to replace windows in the county administration building that have broken frames or are inefficient due to low U-value.

  • Wood County (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $220,348 to replace the boiler system in the county courthouse with condensing boilers, which will maximize fuel efficiency and include a connection for domestic hot water and a variable primary pumping system.

  • Wood County (Energy Efficiency Retrofits) - $154,081 to replace windows, doors, and insulation at four county water pumping and wastewater plants.

Institutions of Higher Education:

  • Antioch College (Greene County) - $289,887 to retrofit the Glen Helen Ecology Institute with several energy efficiency retrofits and to install a 29-ton ground-source heat pump.

  • Bowling Green State University (Wood County) - $911,658 to upgrade the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system in Hayes Hall; converting the ventilation system from a constant volume to a variable volume system with integrated variable-frequency drive fan control; replacing air handlers and pneumatic controls; and replacing roof-top units. Energy efficient lighting will also be installed along with a computer-based building management system to control lights and temperatures.

  • Cleveland Institute of Art (Cuyahoga County) - $1.25 million to replace several heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning and mechanical systems at the historic McCullough Building, which is a former assembly plant for the Ford Motor Company.

  • Defiance College (Defiance County) - $753,112 to install efficient lighting campus-wide and to replace windows at Dana and McReynolds Halls. This project is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s State Energy Program.

  • Hocking Technical College (Athens County) - $444,777 to upgrade the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system and install control systems, such as day-lighting and occupancy sensors in classroom buildings across the campus and dormitories, including John Light Hall, Oakley Hall and Holl Lab. This project is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s State Energy Program.

  • Lourdes College (Lucas County) - $976,798 to upgrade the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system in the Mother Adelaide Hall by replacing window units with a central air conditioning system, installing occupancy sensors and controls, replacing motors with variable-frequency drives. The building retrofit also includes installing more efficient windows and lighting. This project is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s State Energy Program.

  • Oberlin College (Lorain County) - $925,000 to retrofit a dormitory building by replacing windows, steam traps and thermostatic radiator controls. The project also includes monitoring, with the installation of British Thermal Unit meters to assess performance.

  • Ohio University (Athens County) - $1,088,571 to install new composting units, a 1.4 gallon solar thermal system, a 31.1 kilowatt solar electric system, and waste-oil burners at the food waste composting facility in the Ridges precinct.

  • Ohio University (Athens County) - $432,000 to install a 61.1 kilowatt solar electric system at their heating plant building.

  • Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware County) - $375,000 to conduct an energy audit of the entire campus, which consists of 1.6 million square feet in 67 facilities on 104 acres, and to develop a comprehensive energy efficiency and conservation strategy for the university.

  • Stark State College of Technology (Stark County) - $442,375 to upgrade eight boilers in six different buildings on their campus.

  • Wittenberg University (Clark County) - $569,665 to replace eight existing boilers with two steam boilers that will provide heating for 70 percent of the campus. Ohio’s State Energy Program through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is providing $324,410 of the grant award.

  • Ursuline College (Cuyahoga County) - $607,754 to renovate the Mullen Building to be more energy efficient through window replacements, upgrades to the ventilation and air conditioning systems, and lighting retrofits.

State Government Agencies:

  • Ohio Department of Transportation (Ashtabula, Belmont and Wood Counties) - $1,662,500 for the state’s “America’s Energy Gateway” initiative,which showcases Ohio’s leadership and opportunities to further develop advanced energy industries. The project includes the installation of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies at the following locations:
    • The I-90 Gateway Rest Areas in Ashtabula and Wood Counties
      The project includes truck electrification systems at each rest area to provide “on-board” power to trucks to reduce the amount of trucks idling at the rest area, light-emitting diode (LED) and induction lighting for each tourist information center, a 250 kilowatt wind turbine and 15 kilowatt solar system that both provide onsite electricity, a power management system and an educational kiosk for visitors to learn about advanced energy.  

    • I-70 Gateway Rest Areas in Belmont County
      The project includes light-emitting diode (LED) and induction lighting for each tourist information center, a 30 kilowatt solar electric system, electric vehicle charging equipment and an educational kiosk for visitors to learn about advanced energy.       

 

For more information about the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program and project details, please visit: http://www.development.ohio.gov/recovery/EnergyEfficiencyConservationBlockGrants.htm