What funding is available for the retrofitting of old buildings to make them more energy efficient?
There is significant money available for anything that involves greening, whether that be the retrofitting of old buildings, schools, public buildings, public housing, weatherization of private homes, etc. This funding is flowing via several different mechanisms. Local communities receive many of these direct appropriations through the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant. Many of these dollars have already been allocated and assigned for energy efficiency improvement in public buildings so that communities can reduce their long term energy costs. There are also grant opportunities available through that same program. The state energy program (housed in the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth), like weatherization, is seeing a significant increase in this funding and will likely use a large part of the increased funding for this purpose. Schools are receiving a significant amount of dollars, and they could choose to use some of these monies to upgrade the
