Henrico County Awarded $1.5 Million for EV Charging

Photo courtesy of Blink Charging.

In January 2024, the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded $622.57 million in grant funding for the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Program to 47 applicants. These awards go to entities that are strategically deploying publicly accessible EV charging and alternative fueling infrastructure.

“Virginia Clean Cities commends all communities and ...

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Governments and Nonprofits: Direct Pay Tax Credits Now Available!

Qualifying businesses, tax-exempt organizations or entities such as state, local and tribal governments can take advantage of certain tax credits even if they don’t have taxable income through new elective payment and transfer options. These options can be applied to certain clean energy and manufacturing credits under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and CHIPS Act.

A wide range of clean fuel tax credits and clean energy tax credits can be taken directly through the system for cities, governments ...

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LODESTAR

The LODESTAR project seeks to demonstrate and document the innovative use case for independent contractors to adopt electric delivery vans that serve urban, suburban and rural areas and provide a holistic solution to distribution center electrification that incorporates electrification of both the freight and distribution activity. LODESTAR will uplift communities through the Last Mile Leadership (LML) scholarship program that will invest in students and businesses who wish to study or deploy clean transportation. 

Project efforts will engage diverse community ...

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17th International Biomass Conference Comes to Virginia in March

Image courtesy of BBI International and Biomass Magazine.

The 17th annual International Biomass Conference & Expo will take place March 4-6, 2024, at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Richmond, VA. This dynamic event unites industry professionals from all sectors of the world’s interconnected biomass utilization industries—biobased power, thermal energy, fuels and chemicals.

Virginia biofuels and bioproducts producers receive ...

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City of Charlottesville Establishes Office of Sustainability

Virginia Clean Cities is pleased to announce that one of our coalition stakeholders, the City of Charlottesville has officially established a new sustainability office. On November 20, 2023, the Charlottesville Office of Sustainability was established by City Manager Sam Sanders under the City Manager’s Office. 

Previously under the City’s Public Works Department, this new office emphasizes the City’s commitment to integrating sustainability and climate goals throughout the whole ...

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Applications for Communities LEAP grants due Dec. 14

The DOE Communities LEAP (Local Energy Action Program) aims to facilitate sustained community-wide economic and environmental benefits primarily through DOE’s clean energy deployment work.  Communities LEAP seeks to facilitate sustained community-wide economic empowerment through clean energy, improve local environmental conditions, and open the way for other benefits primarily through DOE’s clean energy deployment work.

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