Project Grant 83496001

The Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce will receive $2.7 million under a Project Grant award from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration's BUILD TO SCALE program (CFDA 11.024) to expand the Enterprise Capital Alliance Capital Fund Deployment Project. The project aims to foster connections between Washington entrepreneurial activity and national Fortune 500 companies through the Enterprise Capital Alliance program within the Chamber's Technology Alliance. This will...

The City of Seattle has been awarded a $500,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Congressional Grants program (CFDA 59.059). This grant funding will support small business development and entrepreneurship initiatives in the City of Seattle, including programmatic and construction activities such as counseling, technical assistance, workforce training, education services, facility upgrades, and community economic development projects. The grant period runs...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $233,670 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program to the City of Seward, Alaska. The funding will support the final design of a fourth-generation, community-scale, tidal source geothermal district heating and cooling system for the city. The project aims to reduce the community's dependency on heating oil and lower CO2 emissions by supplying over...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $20,000,000 Project Grant to the City of Chicago under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117). The grant funding will enable the City of Chicago to collaboratively develop a Chicago Building Performance Standard that requires its largest commercial and multifamily residential buildings to meet achievable energy targets. This effort aims to promote...

This $1,200,000 Project Grant awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration (CFDA 20.106 - Airport Improvement Program, COVID-19 Airports Programs, and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Programs) will fund an energy efficiency assessment for airports associated with the Seattle, Washington metropolitan area. The grant will be provided to the Port of Seattle, a U.S. local government entity serving as a port authority and airport authority. The assessment activities are expected to be...

This $7,500,000 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy under the "Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance" (CFDA 81.117) program, supports the City and County of Denver's efforts to achieve zero operational emissions for new buildings by 2030 and zero emissions for all buildings by 2040. The grant will fund a five-phase implementation plan to supplement Denver's ongoing initiatives to...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $999,549 Cooperative Agreement under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program (CFDA 66.046) to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) to develop a comprehensive, economy-wide climate mitigation plan for the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metropolitan area. The four-year grant period runs from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2027. The key deliverables under this award include a Priority Climate Action Plan due in March 2024, a Comprehensive Climate...

The Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) was awarded a $812,429 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) on October 1, 2023. The award will support CEE's research and development of innovative aerosol sealing techniques for occupied residential buildings to improve energy efficiency. Key activities include assessing the feasibility of air source heat...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $12,000,000 Project Grant to the Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) in Washington, DC to make improvements to the DC Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) program. The grant, funded under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117), will focus on changing the BEPS requirements to use site energy use intensity and on-site greenhouse gas...

The Seattle Economic Development Fund (SEDF) received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Capital Access under the Prime Technical Assistance federal grant program (CFDA #59.050). Through this funding, SEDF will provide training and capacity building services to microentrepreneurs in the Seattle, WA area to increase the number of microenterprises and enhance the management capabilities of business owners. Specifically, SEDF will deliver technical...