Federal Stimulus Funds for Commercial Energy Efficiency Upgrades -- Letters of Interest NEEDED

BOMA San Francisco Members:

Per discussions over the past three weeks and with consensus from the BOMA California Board of Directors, please find information, here, regarding the bid BOMA California, ConSol, and Lime Energy are putting together to apply for a $20,000,000 Federal Stimulus Funds grant for energy efficiency upgrades to existing buildings in California.  

We need you to consider participating in the joint effort, and if so, to give BOMA California a letter of interest for the grant packet. 

If successful, BOMA California will administer these funds which can be used to buy down up to 50% of the energy efficient improvement costs for projects on California properties, including yours.  Many of the proposed improvements will have a pay back of less than 24 months.

We need interested companies to fill out this spreadsheet and letter of interest, and send it to Matthew Hargrove at mhargrove@cbpa.com by Noon on Friday, November 20th.  The spreadsheet has default answers that appear in the building type and energy projects columns (click on arrow at right of these cells).  Expressing interest does not contractually bind companies, but will be used to show how much interest our members have in the program to increase our chances of being awarded the grant.  The letters of interest will determine the amount of money BOMA California can apply for (up to $20,000,000). 

ConSol and/or Lime Energy are available (at no cost) to assist you in determining applicable energy improvements and filling out the attached spreadsheet – contact information for individuals at these companies are in the one-pager.

The BOMA California Board of Directors thinks this is an excellent opportunity for some real financial benefit to reach our members from the recently passed Federal Stimulus package legislation. We need to respond quickly if we are to be a successful bidder for these funds.