Clean Energy Atlanta Program to Offer Up to $200M for Building Retrofits

October 26th, 2012 by Nicholas Brown

Ygrene Energy Fund, a provider of clean energy finance projects, has announced that Invest Atlanta, the economic development authority of Atlanta, voted to release $200 million of energy retfrofit funds via the Clean Energy Atlanta program.

These funds will be available to both multi-family residential building owners and commercial ones as well.

The program is expected to create up to 3,000 jobs.

“Now is the time to implement intelligent programs that offer both economic and environmental benefits immediately,” Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said. “Clean Energy Atlanta paves the way to finance and implement extensive energy savings while adding value to Atlanta property and creating thousands of local jobs. We are ready to get started right away.”

Source: PR Newswire

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Nicholas Brown writes on CleanTechnica, Gas2, Kleef&Co, and Green Building Elements. He has a keen interest in physics-intensive topics such as electricity generation, refrigeration and air conditioning technology, energy storage, and geography. His website is: Kompulsa.com.