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Wisconsin nonprofit gets $3.3 million solar training grant

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 8:46 a.m.

MADISON—A Wisconsin nonprofit will train solar power instructors throughout the Midwest with a $3.3 million federal grant.

The Midwest Renewable Energy Association will work with universities, colleges and other groups in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and Ohio to train 200 solar instructors in the next five years.

The training will help improve the quality of instruction about solar electric and solar heating and cooling technologies.

Executive director Tehri Parker says the improved instruction will help train a clean energy work force. The association, based in Custer in central Wisconsin, is one of nine organizations to receive such funding from the Department of Energy for similar projects.

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bennetonf1
Oct 27, 2009 at 4:15 p.m.
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This is called "progress" gpawcat...

partarican1
Oct 27, 2009 at 12:57 p.m.
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Awesome! What a great thing! We need people to teach others about renewable energy sources and how to install them. It's about time the government funded things like this.

gpawcat
Oct 27, 2009 at 12:42 p.m.
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Stop the give away.

janesvillean
Oct 27, 2009 at 12:08 p.m.
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It's a federal grant program authorized as such by Congress as part of the stimulus. There are many loan and tax credit programs that have other purposes.
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/instru...

gpawcat
Oct 27, 2009 at 9:32 a.m.
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Make it a loan.

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