Energy efficiency in NOAH: Some answers tonight, maybe
At tonight's Middleton Common Council meeting (Tuesday, December 20, at 7:30), representatives from Elevate Energy (a Chicago-based non-profit) and Sustain Dane (a Madison-based non-profit) will give presentations about their plan to select an as-yet-unspecified number of low(er) rent multi-tenant buildings in order to retrofit them with energy-saving measures and equip them with solar energy installations, using $450,000 in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds that the Council earmarked to be spent over three years for the project.
Officially referred to as 'energy efficiency navigator program in naturally occurring affordable housing' (the latter chunk of the mouthful conveniently shortened to NOAH), it is a joint venture between the City of Middleton, the two mentioned non-profits, Middleton Outreach Ministry and the Middleton Senior Center, as well as, possibly via a grant, an organization called Healthy Babies Bright Futures (HBBF) whose mission it is to "measurably reduce babies' exposure to toxic chemicals that harm brain development".