The initial $ 220 million investment in the fiber optic system was funded, in part, by a $ 111.6 million federal grant provided as part of
the federal stimulus program in 2010 designed to spur jobs and the development of a smarter electric grid.
He said schools have an billion and a half dollars in reserve funds and leftover monies from
the federal stimulus program, which ended last year, enough to cover the reductions.
The phase two winners will split up the remaining $ 3.4 billion in the RTTT money that was part of
the federal stimulus program.
«They look like government vouchers, redeemable for a debt settlement in association with
a federal stimulus program.
Chairman Karen Douglas is the Presiding Member of both Committees; Commissioner Jeffrey D. Byron is the Associate Member of the IEPR Committee, and Commissioner Anthony Eggert is the Associate Member of
the Federal Stimulus Program (Ad Hoc) Committee.
The California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) and
Federal Stimulus Program (Ad Hoc) Committees will conduct a joint workshop to discuss clean technology innovation efforts funded through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) competitive solicitations with a focus on projects receiving cost - share funding from the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research and Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Programs.
That plan was aided by financing from
the federal stimulus program, although construction has not begun.
Federal stimulus programs that helped propel clean technologies to commercial scale are drying up.