Washington, DC – March 3, 2010

In a historic move, eight Long Island towns joined together to announce the creation of the Long Island Green Homes & Buildings Consortium dedicated to making homes and buildings across Long Island more energy efficient.

As part of the consortium, each town has committed 20% of its energy block grant funding from the Department of Energy to establish revolving loan funds or Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing programs.

The Supervisors also announced that the consortium would apply for the U.S. Department of Energy’s “Retrofit Ramp-up” competitive grant.
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