The Department of Environmental Protection this week announced $5.9 million in grant funding for 34 projects under the Energy Harvest Grant Program.

Under the Program, projects must be designed to enhance energy security, promote advanced technologies, spur economic growth and improve the environment.

The 34 Energy Harvest projects will produce or conserve the equivalent of 37,800 megawatts-per-hour a year, enough to power 5,000 homes, as well as reduce harmful air emissions.

The projects will also eliminate 85,000 pounds of nitrogen oxide, 131,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide, 2,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, 10 million pounds of carbon dioxide and displace 167,000 gallons of diesel fuel annually.

Among the projects funded were $307,195 to Liquid Elevator, Inc. to improve recovery of natural gas, $126,225 for residential green building redevelopment in Beaver County, $289,578 to Eastern Middle Anthracite Region Recovery, Inc. to install a 100-kilowatt mycrohydro system on the Jeddo Mine Tunnel discharges to generate electricity, $323,100 to install a biodigester to produce electricity at the Hogs Galore Farm in Centre County, $212,000 to Clarion University to install a solar photovoltaic system, $100,000 to River Hill Power Company to develop an environmental sampling program for development of a waste coal-fired power plant, $600,000 to install an anaerobic digester on the Brubaker Farm in Lancaster County, and $200,000 to Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future to deploy a one-megawatt wind turbine at the Hazleton Wastewater Treatment Plant.

A complete list of projects funded is available online.

Visit the Energy Harvest Grant Program webpage for more information.

11/18/2005