$2.3 Million in Clean Tennessee Energy Grants Awarded

Anderson

Girls Incorporated of Oak Ridge

$46,164

To renovate the currently unusable National Guard Armory building acquired by Girls Inc. Renovation plans include replacement of the roof with a reflective .060 mil Energy Star thermoplastic polyolefin roof system and R-24 insulation on both the flat and the gabled roof. These renovations will position Girls Inc. to complete the energy efficiency components of the project which includes installation of a 50 kW direct current solar array, high efficiency HVAC and lighting, and energy efficient window treatments.

Davidson

Metro Water Services

$123,711

To replace outdated HVAC units throughout the Omohundro Water Treatment Plant. The project will replace 13 HVAC units throughout the site that range from 16 to 20 years old, with a SEER rating of 10 or less, with new energy efficient HVAC units with SEER ratings of 16 or greater and will replace the old duct with pressure sealed duct.

Hamblen

Debord Family Partnership

$27,506

To install an 11.73 kW solar PV project on the rooftop of the 144 West Main Street building in Historic Downtown Morristown.  The project will use aesthetic and innovative solar technology that can be installed within the design requirements of the local Historic Zoning Commission and will add to the historic building’s complete renovation.

Hamilton

City of Chattanooga and Moccasin Bend Wastewater

$200,000

To install varying frequency drives units on the four UNOX Oxygenation Tank Mixers utilized by the Moccasin Bend Wastewater Treatment Plant.  The oxygenation tanks process water and operate at fixed speeds.  These installations will allow the motors flexibility to operate at varying speeds hence increasing efficiency by using only the power and energy necessary to meet specific demand; the projected annual savings is $325,609, and will result in a rapid payback in less than two years.

Knox

Northeast Knox Utility District Water Treatment Plant

$150,000

For an upgrade and expansion project to address the age and inefficiencies within the Water Treatment Plant that result in a high air emissions impact. The project includes high efficiency pumps and motors equipped with variable frequency drives that will maximize the WTP’s pumping efficiency.

Lincoln

Hollow Ridge Farms

$50,000

To purchase and install a geothermal heat pump system which will heat and cool a 50’ X 500’ poultry house in Flintville.  The complete installed system includes four 10 ton geothermal heat pumps and all necessary accessories.

Loudon

Lenoir City Utilities

$100,000

To install a 250 kW Cellulose to Hydrogen Power system, a biomass-fueled renewable energy technology, as part of the LCUB net-zero wastewater treatment project. LCUB will use woodchips from local sources as the CHyP System’s feedstock to create syngas, which will be fed into a natural gas generator to produce on-demand electricity. The CHyP System will completely offset the electricity consumption of LCUB’s wastewater treatment plant, currently at 1,536,720 kWh of electricity per year.

Maury

Maury Regional Medical Center

$ 150,000

For a LED lighting retrofit, seeking to reduce the overall energy consumed by retrofitting 16,618 4’ fluorescent bulbs and 1,189 2’ fluorescent bulbs with low-wattage LED tube lights. The hospital is currently using 5,308,957 KWh annually with their current lighting; after the project their annual use will be reduced to 3,034,678 KWh, representing a 43 percent savings in energy consumption.

McMinn

Calfee River Farms

$80,476

To install a domestically manufactured 49.92 kWp roof level solar PV system with multiple environmentally beneficial design integrations, power production and energy savings in the town of Calhoun.

McMinn

City of Athens

$250,000

To construct three grid-tied solar power-producing systems and one small office system. The three solar systems combined will produce 137,117 kWh in clean energy each year, which will be sold to the Tennessee Valley Authority. Power sales are expected to produce nearly $30,000 per year in income. The city will use this income as earmarked funds for future energy savings initiatives in Athens.

Montgomery

Campbell Crossing, LLC

$ 250,000

To implement an E3 Next Generation Energy Management Service to reduce peak loading and energy use at 623 homes located in Montgomery County.  Key components of the service will include smart load control devices and an internet-based centralized external energy management center.

Sevier

Sevier Solid Waste, Inc.

$250,000

To install an innovative, renewable, and highly efficient waste-to-energy bioenergy technology called the Cellulose to Hydrogen Power, or CHyP System. Turning a waste product into an asset by annually utilizing 2,750 tons of compost created by SSWI’s rotary drum reactor as the biomass feedstock, the CHyP system then produces a syngas to power natural gas generators to produce clean energy onsite.

Shelby

Greene Turbine, LLC

$125,000

To commercialize the facility’s unique, patent-pending hydrokinetic technology to harness hydrokinetic power from underwater turbines in the Mississippi River so that the power can be delivered into the Tennessee electrical grid.

Sullivan

City of Kingsport

$50,000

To purchase two Nissan LEAF Electric Vehicles along with the purchase and installation of two EV charging stations and promotion of an EV/alternative fuels public campaign.

Tipton

City of Covington

$250,000

To enact a Waste Biomass Gasification to Energy Project that will create electricity and utilize the city’s wood waste and biosolids as fuel. The complete system will use landfill-bound waste to provide a continuous stream of domestically produced energy that is clean, carbon neutral and renewable; it will convert approximately 12 tons per day of the wood and sludge waste collected by the city into electricity.

Washington

City of Johnson City

$150,000

For a wastewater treatment plant aeration system project. The aeration system is a major user of electricity at the wastewater treatment plant, and the funds will be used to replace aeration system diffusers, provide a variable frequency drive on one blower, provide dissolved oxygen based controls, and replace all existing metal halide area lighting fixtures at the plant with LED lighting fixtures.

Williamson

City of Brentwood

$52,250

To implement an energy-saving and emissions-reducing project at the Brentwood Public Library.  The project consists of replacing two 14-year-old, inefficient boilers that require a high volume of combustion air to be delivered to the boiler room.  The project will result in emissions reductions, including annually reducing CO2 by 71.2 tons, NOx by 28 pounds and SO2 by 60 pounds. Over the expected minimum 15-year lifetime of the new equipment, long-term cost savings are estimated to be $225,605, reflecting long term energy savings of 17.6 million cubic feet of natural gas and 13,140 kWh of electricity.