An open letter to the Department of Energy: Enough with the technical assistance | Utility Dive
Well-meaning as they may be, EPA and DOE, which are tasked with distributing the funding from the Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law, can be painfully oblivious to the needs of recipients.
Alicia Brown is the clean energy program manager for the City of Savannah Over the past year, there has been an endless barrage of webinars, newsletters and conference panels about federal funding in the wake of the bipartisan infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act. To outside viewers, this may seem like the zenith of the clean energy movement — and in some ways that may be so — but the reality on the ground is that most local governments, community organizations and other actors are yet to see a penny of funding and may have a long, labor-intensive wait before they do.…
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