King County will partner with local governments in four counties to transition buildings to clean energy and reduce emissions from construction.
Local governments throughout the region will now be able to create resilient frontline communities by transitioning multifamily and community buildings to clean energy. The Environmental Protection Agency grant will not only help in the reduction of new building emissions, but also create systems to reuse building wood.
King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties will use funding from the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant to:
- Electrify and weatherize over 600 affordable housing units, 150 home-based care centers including daycares and adult family homes, and 55 nonprofit community or municipal buildings to lower energy bills and provide cooling during extreme heat and wildfire smoke.
- Replace 300 gas water heaters in multifamily homes with heat pump water heaters.
- Invest in electrification in low-income and disadvantaged communities and reduce emissions in multifamily and small commercial buildings.
- Update local building codes to lower emissions in new construction and invest in new approaches to reusing wood at the end of a building’s life.
Read more about the grant here.
Photo courtesy Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance