{"id":306744,"date":"2026-05-24T06:33:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306744\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T06:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:33:43","slug":"google-announces-first-texas-energy-impact-fund-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306744\/","title":{"rendered":"Google announces first Texas Energy Impact Fund recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"r2jjn\">We\u2019re announcing our Texas Energy Impact Fund\u2019s first recipients, a significant milestone in our <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/company-news\/inside-google\/company-announcements\/google-american-innovation-texas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$30 million commitment<\/a> to energy resilience and affordability in the Lone Star State. In its inaugural year, the fund is supporting: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.temaenergy.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Energy Management Alliance (TEMA)<\/a> to expand energy manager training to  rural communities and fund efficiency upgrades in public buildings in Armstrong, Ellis, Haskell and Wilbarger Counties. <a href=\"https:\/\/tepri.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute (TEPRI)<\/a> grants to fund innovation challenges focused on improving energy resilience, affordability and efficiency for multifamily buildings and electric cooperatives. <a href=\"https:\/\/solarunitedneighbors.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Solar United Neighbors (SUN)<\/a> to deploy solar energy, batteries and heat pumps in low-income households and as community resilience hubs in Ellis County.Pre-weatherization \u2014 home repairs to increase energy savings, health and safety \u2014 in the Houston area through <a href=\"https:\/\/harcresearch.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HARC (Houston Advanced Research Center)<\/a>, and in Armstrong, Ellis, Haskell and Wilbarger Counties through SUN, TEPRI and TEMA.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fcdg8\">Together, we&#8217;re helping build a stronger, more affordable grid in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re announcing our Texas Energy Impact Fund\u2019s first recipients, a significant milestone in our $30 million commitment to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28631,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-306744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-none","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}