Philadelphia’s Energy Coordinating Agency (ECA), the non-profit dedicated to helping area residents conserve energy and live sustainably, is in the running to receive a $250,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project.
By offering energy audits and comprehensive home repairs, ECA has weatherized thousands of low income homes and saved residents precious dollars. The organization has also provided workshops, training, and green job placement to hundreds of residents.
Currently, the ECA is renovating an old factory which will serve the as a Green Jobs Training Center where trainees will be learn green building skills like how to harvest rainwater, install cool roofs, and recycle and reuse common interior finishes. If received, the Pepsi grant will help ECA build a solar lab on the training center site to teach trainees about solar and thermal installation. The solar component will enhance the ECA’s current curriculum, create more green jobs, and help the city achieve several of the mayor’s Greenworks goals.
US Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu called the training center “incredible” and applauded the ECA for its sustainable efforts.
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