With the help of three separate construction businesses – G.V. Enterprises, CORE Construction and Orcutt-Winslow – the Buckeye School District in Arizona’s southwest valley will install solar atop six schools and the district office at a combined total of $20 million.

The Center will use the money for two projects. One will be a 72-panel rooftop solar energy system. The other will be a solar panel exhibit within the center that will show live time energy savings.

As announced by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer at the beginning of this week, Arizona will invest $637,000 in renewable energy projects for 14 different non-profit organizations statewide.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced that will allocate $70 million in energy grants for the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). The program gives a maximum incentive of a 25 percent of a qualifying project’s cost. A loan under REAP may not exceed $25 million, and a combined loan and grant under REAP may not exceed 75 percent of the project’s cost.

Bowdoin College, the nationally known liberal arts and science college in Brunswick, Maine, has received a $50,000 grant from the state’s Public Utilities Commission to install a solar hot water system atop Bowdoin’s Thorne Hall, one of the largest water-consuming buildings on its campus.

The Arizona School Facilities Board (SFB) is finalizing a plan that will provide $5 million to rural school districts for the purchase of solar energy systems. Twenty-one school districts will receive grants. As relayed by the Phoenix Business Journal, the SFB aims to maximize the bang for its buck by focusing on helping small schools [...]

On November 6, the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) began offering grants worth up to $25,000 to companies and non-profits that install mid-sized solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar hot water systems. Made possible by $1.45 million in federal funding from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the new grants are available through October 31, 2010, or [...]

The Solar Energy Consortium (TSEC), a New York-based organization that aims to increase instate solar energy research, development and manufacturing, yesterday announced it will receive $2.25 million in federal support.
U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-Hurley, made the announcement at a solar energy summit held in Kingston. “This latest allocation of $2.25 million in federal funding … [...]

As observers are pointing out, to date, only a fraction of the federal stimulus funds have been doled out. A full two-thirds of the $787 billion promised by Washington is still left to be disbursed in 2010. The lag is even more pronounced when it comes to government investment in clean energy development: as Bloomberg [...]

The DOE slots over $37 million to small businesses working in the renewable energy space, including those focused on advanced solar technologies.