The Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity to apply for $25,000,000 in Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 funding under the Route Planning Restoration Program (Federal Assistance Listing: 20.505). As required by Federal public transportation law and subject to funding availability, funds will... Read More

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is excited about the unprecedented opportunities ahead: with dramatic progress in renewable energy and energy storage, the potential to expand and upgrade energy transmission and distribution systems, and the emergence of strong options for electrifying buildings and transportation. The... Read More

During Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22), the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) will support the design and installation of solar energy systems for a limited number of Low Income (LI) households that have received an energy audit and weatherization-type energy efficiency upgrades that were funded through MEA’s... Read More

Available to nonprofit organizations and local governments, the Maryland Energy Administration’s (MEA) Low-to-Moderate Income Grant Program is designed to support energy efficiency projects and activities for low-to-moderate-income (LMI) Marylanders. Grants are awarded for energy efficiency projects that generate significant reductions in energy use and pass... Read More

This Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) program provides grant funding to support the installation of the parking lot and parking garage solar photovoltaic canopy systems, which include at least four (4) Level 2 or Level 3 electric vehicle chargers under the solar canopy. This program was... Read More

In July, Metro’s Board of Directors approved plans to fully convert the WMATA bus fleet to electric buses over the next two decades, by 2045. Up to 12 electric buses could be rolled out in a pilot program in 2023, and the system plans to stop buying... Read More

The Department of Energy (DOE) Communities Local Energy Action Program (LEAP) Pilot aims to facilitate sustained community-wide economic and environmental benefits primarily through DOE’s clean energy deployment work. This opportunity is specifically open to low-income, energy-burdened communities that are also experiencing either direct environmental justice... Read More

EJ4Climate is a grant program that supports underserved and vulnerable communities, and Indigenous communities, in Canada, Mexico, and the United States to prepare for climate-related impacts. Possible projects under the grant program could include addressing extreme weather impacts, transitioning to clean energy and/or transportation systems,... Read More

Although housing production has ramped up in the last decade in DC proper, close-in suburbs are lagging behind; and both are outflanked by housing construction in exurban communities, according to Census data analyzed by the Brookings researchers. According to the Brookings report, “between 60% and... Read More

This position is available with the Maryland Department of General Services’ Office of Energy and Sustainability. It supports the Chief, Building Energy Programs in management, oversight and energy engineering consultation of Energy Performance Contracts (EPCs), retro-commissioning, and other energy related projects. This position is also... Read More