Energy.gov

Through the Energy Department's EECBG program, San Antonio's City Lights initiative is upgrading lighting in businesses across the city through a free energy assessment and turnkey installation of energy efficiency lighting. The program, funded by the Recovery Act, provides no-interest loans to customers to spread repayment over time and creates a revolving loan fund for the program to live on in perpetuity.

“Really anyone who likes science or math, we’ve probably got a job for you,” said Justin Johnson, Senior Director of Engineering at Oncor, one of the country’s largest transmission and distribution utilities based in Dallas, Texas. Find out more about the exciting career opportunities smart grid technology is offering.

Roland Risser breaks down the four offices in the Building Technologies Program.

As one of the windiest states in the country, Kansas is a great place to harness wind and solar power. And through the Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program, the Resourceful Kansas team is teaching the rest of the state about all the technologies that are out there.

Philadelphia is taking serious measures to make their traffic lights more energy efficient.

Tecumseh’s town historic town square is home to the city hall, courthouse, post office, and during the summer months—a farmers market. Now, this historic square, built in the 1850’s, is about to become home to something new: LED lights.

Qhen officials in Michigan’s Shiawassee County were faced with fiscal challenges, they had no choice but to put off recommendations from a 2007 report highlighting energy problems at county government buildings. But after receiving an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) worth $302,000 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and $900,000 in low-interest bonds with the government, the county is giving the report a second look.

For over a century, students at the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AIDB) have proudly displayed the school colors—blue and red—in the hallways, classrooms and dorm rooms. But this school year, they’re “Going Green.” The 152-year-old institute is replacing almost 2,900 lights in 19 buildings across its Talladega, Ala., campuses with energy-efficient fixtures, an upgrade expected to save the institute over $20,000 a year on utility bills.

In Texas City, an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) awarded last year has already been utilized to start saving the Texas Gulf Coast city money by installing more efficient lights and applying UV reduction films to windows.

Roanoke’s block grant-funded projects are expected to be complete by the end of 2010, and the city is continuing toward a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 2 percent each year through 2014.

About 250 lights along the busy taxiway at Hammond Northshore Regional Airport are being replaced with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with funds from an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) from the U.S. Department of Energy.

California town uses grant to make required upgrades that will also save money in the long run.