BGE Provides Power to Drive-Thru Testing Sites in Baltimore City

MACo’s Corporate Partners are doing extraordinary work across the region to assist members and their communities during the coronavirus crisis. To show our gratitude, MACo will post a series of blog articles to highlight their efforts. MACo's Gold Corporate Partner BGE is partnering with Baltimore City to provide electrical services to COVID-19 drive-thru testing sites. From BGE's website: BGE crews and contractors installed new equipment in a parking lot at Pimlico Race Course to power…

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Pepco and Delmarva Power Can Help You Build More Efficient Communities at #MACoCon

MACo's Bronze Corporate Partners Pepco and Delmarva Power want to help you build more energy efficient communities with their Solutions Showcase Session at MACo's Winter Conference!  Efficient Buildings Create Efficient Communities Maximizing your budget and improving your building’s performance are crucial to a successful community. Pepco and Delmarva Power’s newest program, Energy Efficiency Communities, can help your organization stretch its dollar and increase its bottom line by reducing electrical consumption and energy bills. The Communities Program…

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Maryland Smart Energy Communities Program is Open for FY20

The Maryland Energy Administration is accepting new applicants for the Maryland Smart Energy Communities (MSEC) Program for Fiscal Year 2020. The program budget for FY20 is $860,000 - $475,000 is allotted for Energy-Efficient projects, up to $300,000 for Tier 1 Renewable Energy projects, and up to $85,000 for Transportation projects - and will be divided between new communities and existing MSEC communities. The Deadline for both new and existing communities is December 20, 2019. For…

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Washington College to host Eastern Shore Environmental Legislative Summit Oct. 6

The Washington College Center for Environment and Society will host The Eastern Shore Environmental Legislative Summit on Sunday, October 6, 2019, at The Gibson Center for the Arts in Chestertown, Maryland. Salisbury Mayor Jake Day and Former Delegate Heather Mizeur will facilitate this summit, which will focus on the Eastern Shore as ground zero for climate change in Maryland. Baltimore County Delegate Dana Stein, and Montgomery Delegate Vaughn Stewart will be among the featured speakers,…

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How to Implement Energy Assurance Planning

The Public Technology Institute (PTI) in coordination with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability (DOE/OE) has released a free guide to help local officials  plan for and respond to incidents and emergencies that result in energy outages. Entitled "Local Government Energy Assurance Guidelines" the publication provides an overview of how to engage in energy assurance planning (EAP) from a pre-disaster standpoint.  PTI Executive Director, Alan Shark states: “Very few…

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