Funding Opportunity: Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvements

Funding Opportunity: Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvements

What does this program do? The program provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements. Agricultural producers may also apply for new energy efficient equipment and new system loans for agricultural production and processing.

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Building Energy Performance Program deadline is approaching

Building Energy Performance Program deadline is approaching

If you are a commercial building owner in the City of Philadelphia, you may be required to comply with a recent regulation called the Building Energy Performance Program (BEPP). This ordinance requires owners of buildings over 50,000 sf to do a "building tune-up" every 5 years. The tune-up is a review of maintenance and operations of primary energy using equipment like HVAC and lighting. The deadline for buildings over 100,000 sf is coming fast - September 30, 2022.

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Lead and Copper Rule Revisions: GIS for Service Line Inventory

Lead and Copper Rule Revisions: GIS for Service Line Inventory

EPA recently revised the Lead and Copper Rule, establishing compliance deadlines of October 2024. To jumpstart the road to compliance, water systems should consider deploying a GIS team to establish their service line inventory. Likewise, water systems should ensure they have an engineering team on board that is well-versed in providing engineering design and consulting services.

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Funding Opportunity: COVID-19 ARPA H20 PA - Water Suply, Sanitary Sewer and Storm Water Projects

Funding Opportunity: COVID-19 ARPA H20 PA - Water Suply, Sanitary Sewer and Storm Water Projects

The H2O PA Act was established by the General Assembly in July 2008. The Act provides for single-year or multi-year grants to municipalities or municipal authorities to assist with the construction of drinking water, sanitary sewer and storm water projects. Act 54 of 2022 appropriated $205.4 million of American Rescue Plan Act funds to the H2O PA – Water Supply, Sanitary Sewer and Storm Water Projects Program.

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Celebrating Fifteen Years of SWPTAP

Celebrating Fifteen Years of SWPTAP

May 1-7, 2022 is the annual recognition of Drinking Water Week. In celebration, SSM is proud to be participating in our fifteenth year as a technical partner in the Source Water Protection Technical Assistance Program (SWPTAP). The program offers a no cost opportunity for water suppliers to develop a source water protection plan with the goal of protecting their water sources utilized for drinking water.

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