BALTIMORE – The Maryland Energy Administration today announced grants to 11 colleges and universities across the state to increase the amount of clean energy generated on their campuses. Those grants total $10.17 million and are funded by the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund, which reinvests proceeds from greenhouse gas-emissions auctions and alternative compliance payments from utilities into a wide variety of programs. The fund helps reduce Marylanders’ energy bills, minimizes energy waste, creates jobs, promotes energy independence, and improves reliability and resiliency.
The agency anticipates that these new projects on Maryland campuses, which are funded through the Fiscal Year 2025 Higher Education Clean Energy Grant Pilot Program, will avoid the equivalent of more than 2,700 metric tons of CO2 equivalents each year. That’s comparable to eliminating more than 220,000 full smartphone charges or 15 rail cars full of coal every year.
“Awardees come from across the state and include community colleges, HBCUs, and both public and private institutions. Each awardee will install solar and create clean energy master plans and some also will receive supplemental funding for interns and training,” said Maryland Energy Administration Director Paul G. Pinsky. “So these grants will boost the state’s real clean energy output and give students hands-on opportunities to learn more about, and even begin working in, clean energy fields.”
Awardees include the following institutions. Additional details on the projects are available here.
Allegany Community College: $414,300
Community College of Baltimore County: $442,960
Goucher College: $1,145,000
Loyola University Maryland: $1,160,000
Morgan State University: $1,315,000
Notre Dame of Maryland University: $895,000
Salisbury University: $900,000
St. John’s College: $1,031,133
University of Maryland, Baltimore: $566,480
University of Maryland, Baltimore County: $1,235,000
University of Maryland, College Park: $1,065,000
The Maryland Energy Administration anticipates releasing details on Fiscal Year 2026 funding for the Higher Education Clean Energy Grants later this summer.
The Maryland Energy Administration promotes clean, affordable, reliable energy and energy-related greenhouse gas emission reductions to benefit Marylanders in a just and equitable manner. For more information about the agency and its programs, visit our website at Energy.Maryland.gov, and follow us on social media: LinkedIn | X | Facebook.
