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KPPC is Kentucky’s primary resource to help businesses, industries and other organizations develop environmentally sustainable, cost-saving solutions for improved efficiency. Based at the University of Louisville J.B. Speed School of Engineering, KPPC provides technical information and assistance that is free, confidential and non-regulatory. KPPC Programs
In the News KREC Announces its 2009 Competitive Grants Program Awards
9.28.09 - The Kentucky Renewable Energy Consortium's (KREC) 2009 Competitive Grants Program awarded $864,000 in grants to seven research proposals from researchers at the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville. KREC is administered by KPPC -- the Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center at the University of Louisville's J.B. Speed School of Engineering. When the grants program was announced in May 2009, KREC received 43 letters of interest from six Kentucky universities covering a wide range of renewable energy and energy efficiency research projects including wind, solar, biomass and lithium battery technology. Twenty-nine of these projects were submitted for review and seven were funded for the 2009 Grants Program. Awards were made to the following projects:
Cam Metcalf, executive director of KPPC, was impressed by the number and quality of the proposals, saying "This year's competitive grants program generated many outstanding research proposals from six of Kentucky's universities. KREC is pleased to make this investment in research that will enhance the intellectual capacity of Kentucky's universities and advance the study of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies for Kentucky." More details of the 2009 Grant Program can be found at KREC's Web site -- www.kppc.org/KREC. 25 x ’25 Roadmap for Kentucky
Three town hall meetings were held across the state to gather public input for the 25x’25 Roadmap development process. These public meetings were held in Frankfort, Somerset, and Princeton, and the hundreds of citizens who joined the meetings brought many innovative and entrepreneurial ideas, as well as some important criticisms of current and proposed energy policies. In addition to the public meetings, an energy survey was sent to KREC members and to industry and government leaders to establish a baseline of current renewable energy efforts across the state and gather new ideas for consideration in the 25x’25 Roadmap. Additional funding to print the Roadmap report was provided by the 25x’25 National Initiative. KREC is a supporting partner of the 25x’25 National Initiative.
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Kentucky
Pollution Prevention Center
The
Kentucky Rural Energy Consortium (KREC) completed the 25x’25 Roadmap
for Kentucky in 2008. The Roadmap outlined an ambitious goal for the
Commonwealth: "By the year 2025, Kentucky will use renewable energy
and energy efficiency as means to get at least 25 percent of its total
energy from improved technologies and renewable resources such as
solar, wind, biomass and biofuels."
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