K-12 School Lighting Upgrade Grant Program

Having successfully reached so many schools with this program during the last four years and given the competing demands on the Foundation's resources, the Foundation announces two major changes to this program:

• The Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation's K-12 School Lighting Upgrade Program will only run two more years, ending in 2007.


• Effective in 2006, school lighting upgrade grants will be calculated at up to $600 per kilowatt of electricity demand reduction that the upgrade yields. This is a $200 per kilowatt reduction in the funding formula used by the Foundation for this program since 2003. It is driven by a comparable drop in project costs: from 2003 to the present, the average cost of school lighting projects proposed to the Foundation has fallen by more than $340 per kilowatt.