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The Grant Farm connects Green Energy Professionals with Government Funding
Energy Commission Monies Fund Innovative Retrofit of Utility Vehicles Nevada City-based
The Grant Farm connects Green Energy Professionals with Government Funding
Nevada City, California – Californians may all breathe a bit easier as a result of a recent grant developed by Nevada City-based The Grant Farm for Terex Utilities.
This week, the California Energy Commission approved nearly $500,000 in funds for the Terex Utilities Hybrid Hybrid Pilot project, which will retrofit 12 medium and heavy duty utility vehicles with new zero emissions technology. The grant matches an additional $2.4 million in private funds and in-kind contributions from PG&E and Terex.
Currently, most of the nation’s 2 million utility vehicles, tow trucks, dump trucks and fire trucks have to keep their engines running in order to power their aerial booms, worksight lighting, water and gas pumps and heating and cooling systems. For utility service vehicles, this can mean long stretches of 4 to 6 hours of an active engine, wasting gas, affecting air quality, and reducing engine life.
The Terex HyPower™ Hybrid utilizes stored energy from the system’s rechargeable batteries to provide power —virtually eliminating the need for chassis engine idling during those operations. The most immediate benefits of the HyPower™ Hybrid system are dramatically reduced levels of fuel consumption – with savings between 600 and 1,000 gallons per year per vehicle — lowered carbon dioxide emissions, and reduction of worksite noise pollution.
Longer term benefits of this technology include the creation of well-paying temporary and full-time manufacturing and service jobs. To promote and support these positions, Terex has included the creation of a Sacramento Area Workforce Training Center to suppor the HyPower™ Hybrid technology, and has also developed an implementation plan for a future multi-state network of vehicle technology centers.
The Grant Farm – which develops public fund campaigns for renewable energy and cleantech businesses throughout the United States – managed the grant development and submission process for Terex Utilities. The company has developed more than $350 million in renewable energy and cleantech grant submissions and recently secured more than $5 in federal monies for the Illinois Department of Transportation to replace an aging fleet of buses with compressed natural gas vehicles and another $5 million to retrofit 31,000 homes in Anaheim, California with Smart Grid technology.
“We founded The Grant Farm to connect renewable energy and transportation professionals with the massive investments being made in new technology by state and federal government,” said Shawn Garvey. “There is a transformation afoot in both energy and public finance — and our experience is in developing and professionalizing successful organizations that can attract significant public and private funds for innovative projects.”
The Grant Farm specializes in identifying public funding partnerships and implementing public fund campaigns for organizations seeking state and federal loans, grants, and tax credits for critical renewable energy projects throughout the United States. Principals at the firm have more than 35 years of combined experience in public funding, technical writing, strategic planning, and advocacy. Since 1995, they have helped develop more than $375 million in renewable energy, cleantech, transportation and infrastructure, and conservation projects seeking funding from a variety of public agencies—including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California Energy Commission, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Federal Transit Administration and the California Energy Commission.
The Grant Farm is a member of Sierra Commons, an innovative business community housed at the former site of the Stonehouse Brewery in Nevada City. Sierra Commons is a project of One-Stop Business and Career Center and the Private Industry Council of Butte County.
The Grant Farm recently leveraged its success at Sierra Commons, expanding to a second office in downtown Sacramento, California.
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