King County (Washington)

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• Overview
• Selected Application Summary
• Key Things to Know

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Overview

Selected Application Summary

The selected application will support King County in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the building sector through collaboration with other Washington State Counties of Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish. Funding for this grant will reduce operational emissions from existing multifamily and small commercial buildings, lower embodied carbon emissions in new building construction through government procurement practices and local building codes and create systems to reuse wood at the end of a building’s life to avoid emissions. 

Key Things to Know

Based on information provided by the applicant, the selected project will deliver the following benefits to reduce GHGs and support communities ¹:

• Electrify and weatherize 50 affordable housing buildings, 150 family-care buildings, and 55 community or municipal buildings which will reduce the energy burden and provide cooling benefits during extreme heat and wildfire smoke events.  
• Replace 300 gas water heaters with heat pump water heaters. 
• Invest in additional electrification for low-income and disadvantaged communities and reduce emissions in multifamily and smaller commercial buildings to address existing decarbonization gaps. 
• Adopt an embodied carbon policy at the local level to advance regional embodied carbon procurement and policies and transform the market to reflect new building operational emissions standards. 
• Innovate new approaches to the deconstruction and reuse of wood products at the end of a building’s life to reduce the embodied carbon of new building products by reusing unpainted and untreated wood in new building products and locking carbon into those building products. 

Activities in the selected application reflect measures in Puget Sound’s Priority Climate Action Plan (pdf) (2.9 MB).

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¹  The emission reduction estimates, as well as the descriptions of measures and benefits, were summarized from information provided by the applicant. These estimates, along with the award amount, are subject to change.

EPA will award grants to selected applicants once they meet all legal and administrative requirements. As of July 2024, grants are expected to be awarded by the end of 2024.