Current funding opportunities
The application period for green building and workforce development grants has now closed.
Our spring grants will open in February – check back in 2023 for more information.
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The Met-Ed / Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund is beginning a new strategic planning process to review past funding and identify goals and focus areas for future grantmaking. This process was last completed in 2018. Please help us plan by completing the survey below. It should take no more than 15 minutes.
Nominees requested
The Met-Ed / Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund seeks nominees for its Advisory Board. Click here for more information.
What We Do
The Met-Ed / Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund provides grants, loans, and equity investments to promote:
- the development and use of renewable energy and clean energy technologies
- energy conservation and efficiency
- sustainable energy businesses
- projects that improve the environment in the companies’ service territories, as defined by their relationship to the companies’ transmission and distribution facilities
Resources
These free toolkits can help you assess energy consumption in manufacturing, commercial, school, municipal, and residential buildings.
Energy and Energy Efficiency Funding Guide
This quick guide covers common sources of funding for energy efficiency, renewables, and other clean energy projects for customers serviced by Met-Ed.
Pennsylvania C-PACE: Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy Guide
Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) is an innovative financial tool for property owners to obtain low-cost, long-term financing for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and water conservation projects. The financing transfers with the property upon sale. Learn more at https://pennsylvaniacpace.org/.
Our projects
Click the map for a searchable database of all projects funded by the Met-Ed / Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund through December 31, 2020.
News and Information
Met-Ed / Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund seeks nominees for Advisory Board
READING, PA (May 25, 2022) – The Met-Ed / Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund seeks nominees for its Advisory Board. Through grants and program-related investments, the funds promote the development and use of renewable energy and [...]
$230,000 grant awarded to Pitt-Bradford green building project
BRADFORD, PA (January 14, 2022) – The Met-Ed / Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund has awarded a $230,000 grant toward a green building project at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. The $22 million project includes [...]
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Gautier Steel: History in the Making
“This has been a long time coming and we’re very excited about this,” said Jacqueline Kulback, CFO & Controller at Gautier Steel.
Work had begun to fulfill the company’s first customer order of steel plates. Eventually, it will be rolling titanium and other specialty metals.
The Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund (SEF) of the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies got a behind-the-scenes look as the mill did its early test runs. Gautier received a $25,000 grant and a $500,000 loan from the SEF to help to complete the nearly $20 million project.
15 years of PA’s sustainable energy funds
In 2000, the sustainable energy industry was bolstered by the creation of special funds across the Commonwealth to provide financial support for projects that promoted renewable and sustainable energy.
Two of those funds, the Metropolitan Edison Company Sustainable Energy Fund of Berks County Community Foundation and the Pennsylvania Electric Company Sustainable Energy Fund of the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies, marked their 15th anniversary in 2015.
Download the report here.
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