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County awarded $225,000 state EECBG grant to install 180 kWh battery at 35 Woodfin; projected lifetime savings about $589,000
Summary
Buncombe County’s Office of Sustainability said June 3 it received a $225,000 North Carolina EECBG grant for a roughly 180 kWh battery storage system at 35 Woodfin; staff said the project would improve energy flexibility, reduce demand charges, allow solar self-consumption, and has a projected lifecycle cost savings of about $589,000.
Jackie Hempstead of the Buncombe County Office of Sustainability told commissioners on June 3 that the county received a $225,000 award from the North Carolina State Energy Office’s EECBG (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant) allocation to fund the design and installation of an approximately 180 kilowatt-hour battery-storage system at 35 Woodfin.
Hempstead said there is no county local match for this award. The battery project originated in the county’s 2024 electrification feasibility study, which…
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