EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is introducing a grant to help libraries Go Solar. As part of the EBSCO Solar initiative, EBSCO is currently soliciting grant applications to help libraries in the United States fund solar installations. EBSCO is making a total of $150,000 available to one or more libraries that will allow the winning libraries to reduce their utilities expenditures and, if allowed in their state, to sell back electricity to the grid.
In August 2007, EBSCO installed a photovoltaic array on the roof of one of the buildings of its Ipswich, Massachusetts campus. At the time, the 192 solar panels made up one of the largest installations on the North Shore of Boston. Two more arrays were added to buildings on campus, and EBSCO now has more than 500 solar panels offsetting the amount of "brown power" the company buys from the grid and generating clean energy to reduce EBSCO's environmental footprint. After seeing the benefits of "going green" on its own campus, EBSCO is introducing a grant so libraries interested in adding their own solar arrays can do so.
EBSCO Industries President and CEO Tim Collins says the grant is a natural extension of the work EBSCO has done with its 'on green' efforts and the support it wants to provide the community.
More information is available on the EBSCO Solar webpage at www.ebsco.com/solar including the timeline, submission form and FAQs. Interested libraries are encouraged to submit questions until February 29th. Submissions are due by April 29th and the winner will be announced on June 24th, 2016 during ALA-Annual.
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