SPRINGFIELD – 5 northeast Ohio companies have been awarded renewable power grants, together with one which plans to put in photo voltaic panels on the roof of Fireplace Station 21 in Springfield Township.
The $20,000 grant will go to Village Pharmacy, which can set up a roof-mounted photo voltaic array on the East Middletown Street hearth station in Springfield, in keeping with a information launch from Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.
The grant is thru the US Division of Agriculture’s Rural Power for America Program (REAP). The 5 grants complete $215,277.
“We’re within the midst of a clear power increase that may create jobs and alternatives for communities throughout Ohio,” Brown stated within the launch. “The REAP program helps Ohio companies change into extra environment friendly and extra worthwhile.”
The generated electrical energy might be bought to the hearth division by way of a Energy Buy Settlement. That is anticipated to save lots of 35.9 % of the division’s annual power use, in keeping with the discharge.
That is the one grant coming to the Mahoning Valley. Of the opposite 4 grants, one is in Lake County for $90,700, one in Portage County for $47,860, one in Medina County for $45,500 and the final one is in Stark County for $11,215.
