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Festival director urges Meade County to back federal home energy rebate and offers local support
Summary
Casey Krebs, festival director and founder of Impact Entertainment, asked Meade County commissioners to encourage the governor to accept a federal Home Energy Rebate program he said could bring about $68,000,000 and offered written information and local help for residents who may qualify.
Casey Krebs, founder of Impact Entertainment and festival director for the Synesthesia Music and Arts Festival, used public comment at the Meade County commission meeting to urge local officials to support a federal Home Energy Rebate program he said could bring about $68,000,000 to South Dakota and create state-level jobs through 2029.
Krebs told commissioners he learned the program — referred in his remarks as the “HEEHRA Home Energy Rebate Program” — would fund home energy-efficiency upgrades such as electric heat pumps, water heaters and electric ranges. “This will bring about $68,000,000 to South Dakota, in terms of jobs,” Krebs said, adding that some upgrades can be free for qualifying low-income households.
Krebs said he had not seen an official statement from Governor Kristi Noem and suggested the governor’s choice might be shaped by election timing. He offered to provide the commission with written information and urged county residents and officials to encourage the governor to indicate interest by the August 16 deadline he cited.
Commissioners accepted Krebs’s offer to distribute materials and asked staff to accept a handout. The record does not include an official county pledge or further action on the program at this meeting.
Krebs also described steps his festival is taking to reduce noise and waste — earlier music cutoff, silent-disco headphones, a food-drive partnership with Feeding South Dakota and coordination with Game, Fish and Parks on waste management — and asked local residents to support and use on-site food donation opportunities during the Labor Day weekend event.
