Brief: Grants available for energy projects

SLAYTON — The Minnesota Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) seek to provide limited financial assistance for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects requiring technical assistance.

Project funding can support technical assistance services (labor costs only, such as for a consultant, design professional, installer or student labor), for projects across the state in all seven Minnesota CERT regions: Central, Metro, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest and West Central.

In past funding cycles in the Southwest Region, CERTs helped fund the Sleepy Eye Depot energy efficiency project, wind, geothermal and anaerobic digestion feasibility studies across the region, the Prairie Ecology Bus, and energy efficiency upgrades at a restaurant in Milroy.

Each region has a $40,000 pool of funding. Projects approved for funding must be completed by Dec. 30, 2010.

Funding for these projects is provided through the Minnesota Department of Commerce, Office of Energy Security. Proposals must be submitted no later than 4:30 p.m. Nov. 2.

To learn more, please visit http://www.cleanenergyresourceteams.org.

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