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DOE IG: Progress in Implementing the Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program Under the Recovery Act

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Department of Energy Office of Inspector General Office of Audit Services Special Report – Progress in Implementing the Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

  • “The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) was enacted to stimulate the U.S. economy, create jobs and make infrastructure investments in energy and other areas. The Department of Energy’s (Department) Weatherization Assistance Program received about $5 billion under the Recovery Act to improve the energy efficiency of nearly 590,000 residences of low income citizens — a dramatic increase over the $450 million appropriated for this Program
    in Fiscal Year 2009. The Department awarded $4.73 billion of the Recovery Act funding in the form of grants to all 50 states, 5 territories, the District of Columbia and 2 Native American Tribes (the remaining $270 million was retained by the Department to administer the grants)…As of February 2010, the one-year anniversary of the Recovery Act, only a small percentage of Recovery Act weatherization funds had been spent and few homes had actually been weatherized: Only $368.2 million (less than 8 percent) of the total award of $4.73 billion had been drawn by grantees for weatherization work…”
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