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2024 Renew America’s Schools: Upcoming Webinars and Reminders

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SCEP State and Community Energy Programs

Renew America's Schools

January 8, 2024

Happy New Year!

We hope everyone had a nice holiday season! We are hitting the ground running in 2024 and we wanted to share some helpful reminders and upcoming webinars that we believe would be beneficial for you and your stakeholders.

Announcing...the new Department of Education National Center on Schools Infrastructure Program!

On January 5, 2024 the U.S. Department of Education (ED) awarded approximately $47 million in new funds over the next five years for the first-ever Supporting America’s School Infrastructure (SASI) program and the new National Center on School Infrastructure (NCSI) program. Together, these awards seek to increase the capacity of states to support high-need local education agencies (LEAs) and schools in leveraging available resources to improve school facilities and environments, and to ensure that their public-school facilities are safe, healthy, sustainable, and equitable learning environments for all students.

For more information about the awards, please visit the Department’s School Infrastructure Program site.

Upcoming Webinars

ESPC Campaign Kickoff Webinar

On Tuesday, January 16, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC) Campaign is hosting it’s first webinar that will introduce organizations to the program goals and offerings for the coming year. Signed ESPC Campaign partners and organizations interested in learning more about the ESPC Campaign are welcome to join for this kickoff info session. Use the link here to register and share with others!

State & local governments, K-12 school districts, universities, hospitals, and other public sector building owners are invited to join the ESPC Campaign to connect with DOE technical assistance resources and share and demonstrate best practice approaches for ESPC projects and programs that improve energy efficiency, cut costs, create local jobs, and align communities with their environmental goals.

Direct Pay Pre-Registration and Upcoming Webinar

On Wednesday January 17, 2024, at 1:30p.m. ET, the Department of Treasury will host an Elective Pay webinar and provide an overview of the pre-filing registration process. The webinar will cover how to complete a required pre-filing registration to receive a registration number, and then how to use the number on the tax return when making an elective payment or transfer election for a clean energy credit. Register ahead for this upcoming webinar.

The IRS recently announced the launch of the IRS Energy Credits Online pre-filing registration tool for taxpayers who intend to receive a direct payment or transfer a clean energy credit. Established by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Elective Pay (or “direct pay”) and Transferability are credit monetization mechanisms to help states, local governments, non-profits, and other eligible entities access clean energy tax credits. These rules and information expand on the proposed Elective Pay and Transferability guidance issued by Treasury earlier in 2023, which can be found here and here. In addition to the Treasury press release, you can find FAQs and fact sheets that outline key information contained in the proposed guidance. You can also find helpful information on CleanEnergy.gov/directpay.

Efficient and Healthy Schools Program Winter Webinars

On Tuesday, January 30, 2024, the Efficient and Healthy Schools Program will host a webinar that will specifically focus on two recognition categories: Solutions Strategist & Data Detective. They will host a second webinar on February 29, 2024 that will focus on Retrofit Revolutionary & Performance Pro. They will also provide key resources including technical assistance offerings on these topics.

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