Boosted by clean energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act, a net-zero energy public safety center in McFarland, Wisconsin is benefiting firefighters, police officers, and the wider community.
The building is a far cry from the cave-like municipal center where her Fire & Rescue team used to be housed, with few windows in workspaces and minimal privacy in the living quarters. Now, along with the Police Department, they’ve relocated to the new building, which boasts a state-of-the-art kitchen and lots of natural light.
There are many more features that help keep energy usage low. Some are what you’d expect from an energy-efficient building: the lights are all on timers or sensors, and ceiling fans in the bays keep heat circulating. But this being a fire station, there are features meant to reduce energy use that most people may not think about: rather than use an energy-intensive oven to dry fire hoses like other stations, McFarland uses a contraption where the hoses are pulled up a well and air-dried.
The second reason is that McFarland is hoping to recoup about a million dollars through the Inflation Reduction Act , which has made large amounts of federal funding available for clean energy projects. “It’s definitely providing the financial incentive to reduce the upfront costs to make a project a go,” Bremer says of the IRA.
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