Newport, Cedarville schools in Arkansas get $3.3M in stimulus money for energy retrofits
2 Ark. school systems get $3.3M for energy work
Associated Press | Oct 30, 09 10:47 AM CDT in
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The federal Energy Department says the Newport and Cedarville school districts in Arkansas will get a total of $3.3 million in stimulus funding to carry out work intended to increase energy efficiency.
The department said in a news release Thursday that each district received grants of nearly identical size, $1.63 million.
The money is to be used in the Cedarville system to "retrofit heat and cooling systems at a number of schools ... to reduce utility costs and provide regional economic growth," the release said.
At Newport, the release said, the money will be used to install a ground-source heat-pump heating and cooling system at Newport High School.
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