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Cooper, Erving and Savage LLC - NY

Clifford C. Rohde focuses his practice on land use and zoning, renewable energy facilities siting, real estate and leasing, and regulatory compliance. He maintains the Wind Power Law Blog, which focuses on wind energy legal and zoning developments. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Rohde was general counsel and chief compliance officer to a multi-state mortgage lender. He has helped telecommunications carriers to resolve corporate disputes and to advance policy agendas before the Federal Communications Commission and Congress. Mr. Rohde is a Spanish speaker and spent over eight years investigating, promoting and defending international human rights, including with the United Nations. An advocate of alternative dispute resolution, Mr. Rohde is a FINRA arbitrator and community mediator. In addition to his legal experience, Rohde has ample professional experience in project management, marketing and communications. He is Vice President of the Cornell Club of the Greater Capital District.

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NYSERDA announces RFP for small municipality energy conservation projects

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Posted December 30, 2009 with 337 reads

Keywords: efficiency, energy, new york, recovery act, renewables

NYSERDA has announced a request for proposals (RFP) for $24M in municipal energy conservation measures (provided via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program.).

Eligible small municipalities can receive up to $500,000 to fund projects to conserve energy, involving:

energy efficiency improvements
renewable energy improvements
efficient transportation system implementation
material conservation and
energy management personnel.

Eligibility requirements are:

Be a New York State small municipal governments that were included in the 2007 Census of Governments as a currently incorporated municipality;
Have a governance structure that includes an elected official and a governing body; and
Must not be listed in Appendix R as having received a direct EECBG allocation of U.S. Department of Energy formula grants.

A proposer may request up to 100% of the cost of the project. Successful proposers must agree to comply with all required federal and state requirements for use of the funds. All proposers must follow all competitive procurement laws, regulations and requirements for all work conducted using funding from this RFP. All Projects will be required to comply with Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements. All Projects must also comply with Buy American requirements.

Sewer districts, school districts, fire districts and other sub-components of eligible villages, towns, cities and counties are not eligible as a direct Proposer under this RFP. Projects to be completed for casinos or other gambling establishments, aquariums, zoos, golf courses, or swimming pools are not eligible for funding under this RFP.

Funding is available as follows: