PA Green Energy Works! Wind

REMINDER: Green Energy Works applications due in December

PA Green Energy Works! Wind is a one-time competitive grant program. Projects will be
competitively reviewed and evaluated based on criteria outlined in the Application Evaluation
Criteria section of this guidance document. DEP reserves the right to decline applications based
on technical deficiencies, lack of financial assurance, or other reasons impacting the eligibility of
the project at the discretion of the agency. Work funded under this grant must be completed prior to April 30, 2012. Applicants must certify in their application a project schedule in accordance with these time constraints.

Eligible applicants include
• Business – corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorship, limited liability company, business
trust, or other legal business entities
• Non-Profit Corporations – Incorporated not for profit organizations that maintain 501(c)(3)
status with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and is that is also registered with the PA Bureau
of Charitable Organizations
• Universities – Colleges or Universities located within Pennsylvania
• An Economic Development Organization – a nonprofit corporation or association whose
purpose is the enhancement of economic conditions in their community.
• A Political Subdivision – A Pennsylvania municipality or county
• A Municipal Electric Utility
• A Municipal Authority

Eligible Wind projects include, but are not limited to
• Purchase and installation of equipment used to produce wind generated energy for projects of
at least 3 MW of nameplate capacity.
• Purchase and installation of equipment used to distribute energy, including interconnection
costs and network upgrades, from a wind energy project of at least 3 MW of nameplate
capacity.

$80M Research Center

[From Philanthropy News Digest]

David and Patricia Atkinson have pledged $80 million to Cornell University to endow the David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, a research center created in 2007 to study problems related to energy, the environment, and economic development, the Wall Street Journal reports.

"The environment, energy, and economic development are heavily interrelated; problems of sustainability can only be addressed with a multidisciplinary approach," said David Atkinson, who retired in 1992 as general partner of Philadelphia-based investment counseling firm Miller, Anderson, & Sherrerd LLP. "As the pressures of rapid population growth take hold, to avoid a crisis it's important to address issues of sustainability preemptively."

To that end, Atkinson initially funded the center as a pilot program that brought together 220 faculty fellows from 55 departments to engage in research and participate in dozens of topical discussions and forums. Through a fund it created, the center has awarded $7 million to engineers, chemists, and professors working on a range of projects, including the creation of solar capture technologies and methods of converting algae into biofuel. Recipients of that funding have been able to obtain an additional $55 million from outside funders.

"Mr. Atkinson's approach to the center follows the true scientific method: testing a hypothesis with a pilot grant, showing a substantial return, and increasing the funding," said Cornell president David Skorton. "This is truly active philanthropy."

“Record Gift to Cornell to Fund Research.” Wall Street Journal 10/28/10.