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Dept/Agency: Administration/Office of Sustainability
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Memorandum of Understanding
Purpose: To form a coalition between the City of Newark, Atlantic City, and the City of Paterson to prepare a joint application for the Solar For All Grant Program funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Entity Name: City of Newark, City of Paterson and Atlantic City
Entity Address: 920 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102;
155 Market Street, Paterson, New Jersey 07505; and
1301 Bacharach Boulevard, Atlantic City, New Jersey 08401
Project Location:
Contract Period: September 2023 through August 2028
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor ( ) Prof. Ser. ( ) EUS
( ) Fair & Open ( ) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ
( ) Private Sale ( ) Grant ( ) Sub-recipient (X) n/a
Additional Information:
This Resolution authorizes the City of Newark to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with Atlantic City and the City of Paterson to form a coalition to submit a joint application to the Solar for All Grant Program funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
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WHEREAS, President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency to implement the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund ("GGRF"); and
WHEREAS, as part of GGRF, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the Greenhouse Reduction Fund (EPA) is launching a Seven Billion Dollar Solar for All competition, designed to spur the deployment of residential distributed solar energy to lower energy bills for millions of Americans and catalyze transformation in markets serving low-income and disadvantaged communities; and
WHEREAS, residential distributed solar generation and energy storage, i...
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