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WV WEATHERIZATION PROGRAM
HIGHLIGHTS
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Over 70,000 homes in West
Virginia have been weatherized to date, 1,200
low-income households were weatherized in the grant year
ending March of 2009.
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In 2009, with the infusion of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act funds coming in to West Virginia for
weatherization assistance, approximately 230 professionally
trained West Virginians are employed full time statewide in
the weatherization program.
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News and Events
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On Thursday October 15 at the State Capitol, Governor Joe
Manchin III recognized
the state’s
Weatherization Assistance Program
for its contribution to residential
energy efficiency in West Virginia, as well as the new
education and employment
opportunities the Program’s expansion from the $37 million
in American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) weatherization monies has
brought to the state. The
Governor, West Virginia Community and Technical College
(WVCTCS) Chancellor
John Skidmore, and GOEO Director Edwin Harper, signed an MOU
for new
Weatherization Course Work and Curriculum to be offered at
WV's 10 community
colleges beginning in early 2010. Governor Manchin also
recognized some of the
new ARRA weatherization employees present for the ceremony
and the Governor
read his proclamation declaring that Friday October 30 would
be “Weatherization
Day” in the Mountain State.
Posted: November 9,
2009
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