Does your landscape services provider use gasoline-powered equipment? Along with the familiar gas smell and loud noise, the emissions from gasoline-powered equipment can have negative impacts on employee health and the air quality in your community!

Up to $300,000 is available to buy electric-powered landscaping equipment such as pole saws, string or hedge trimmers, leaf and backpack blowers, lawn mowers, and chain saws.

Apply now! Deadline: December 5, 2018.

Benefits of electric-powered equipment:

• Safer for employees & communities – No smell reduces respiratory impacts and is generally more pleasant to work with, and quieter use lessens hearing loss.
• Lighter -- Easy to use, haul up, and carry across distances and multiple locations. Reduces cord and lifting-related injuries.
• Powerful -- Equal performance to gas in many applications.
• Saves money -- No more buying gas. Save lost productivity - less maintenance and time spent in the shop as well down time from flooding.
• Battery life -- Often a short charge time and battery lasts.

Eligible applicants: businesses under 500 employees, governmental agencies, educational institutions, non-profits, or trade groups/associations. Strong preference for projects in highly populated, environmental justice areas.

The maximum grant amount is $24,000. Get up to a 50% match to replace and scrap equipment, and a 30% match to keep current equipment.

Find grant materials on the MPCA grants to improve air webpage. For general questions, contact kari.cantarero@state.mn.us or 651-757-2875.