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Committee advances $80.7 million Painesville subgrant for EPA-funded solar, battery and brownfield work
Summary
The committee approved moving Resolution 20250094 — a subgrant agreement with the City of Painesville not to exceed $80,665,500 — forward; the EPA-funded plan includes up to 35 MW of solar, up to a 20 MW battery, brownfield remediation, and nature-based restoration on an Occidental Superfund site and other county parcels.
Cuyahoga County’s committee voted to advance a major EPA-funded climate project, authorizing staff to move forward with a subgrant agreement with the City of Painesville that would commit up to $80,665,500 over multiple years to install large-scale solar arrays, battery storage and brownfield reforestation on the Occidental Superfund site and several Cuyahoga County properties.
Mike Foley, Department of Public Works (Cuyahoga Green Energy program), told the committee the county was part of a regional coalition that won an EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grant worth nearly $130 million. Foley said roughly $50 million of the award is allocated to the county and city partnership, and the current subgrant…
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