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Print Edition StoriesFriday, July 31, 2009
Handful of Mass. schools get green funds
By Mass High Tech Staff
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Sixteen schools in the Bay State will be getting more than $3 million from the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust for their efforts in green. The funding is being awarded to nine schools for solar power arrays; six schools for green school design assistance; and one school for green school design assistance and a solar power array.
The nine schools that have been approved for solar PV installation funding are:
• Beverly High School
• Bridgewater Raynham Regional High School
• Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
• Manchester-Essex Regional Middle/High School
• New Bedford Lincoln Elementary School
• Newton North High School
• Quincy High School
• Dr. Albert F. Argenziano School, Somerville
• Worcester North High School.
The awards range from $150,000 to $300,000 for each school, after funding is added from the Trust’s existing Green Schools Initiative and Commonwealth Solar rebate program. Each school’s funding hangs on the ability for it to score well in the Massachusetts Collaborative for High Performance Schools evaluation. MA-CHPS rates schools based on implementation of energy-saving features and conservation measures, officials said.
The six schools that have been awarded funding through the Green Schools Initiative for green school design funding are:
• Billerica Parker Elementary School
• Brookline Runkle Elementary/Middle School
• Carver Elementary School
• Dedham Avery Elementary School
• Hampden-Wilbraham Minnechaug Regional High School
• Hanover High School.
These awards range from $40,000 to $75,000 per school.
The Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown is the one school that has been awarded green school design funding as well as funding for solar power array installation.
The Trust has supported more than 80 schools since 2002 in their efforts to incorporate renewable energy systems and other green elements into their facilities through the Green Schools Initiative, Commonwealth Solar, Commonwealth Wind, and previous initiatives.
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