SPRINGFIELD – The City of Carbondale is one of seven recipients that will receive a part of $649,482 in additional funding through the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program .

The program supports municipalities and counties with the development or revision of existing strategic energy or climate action plans. Such plans will help prepare local governments for future project funding opportunities either offered by the state or federal government.

Carbondale will get $135,607.

The first EECBG funding opportunity awarded $902,200 in grants to four recipients, which included project funding. The second round of funding, which closed on March 18, and third round of funding, which closed on June 17, offered funding for the development of energy plans only.