The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has awarded nearly $5 million to manufacturing projects across Pennsylvania that focus on reducing industrial emissions and improving air quality, estimated to save over $500,000 in annual energy costs, as part of the Reducing Industrial Sector Emissions in Pennsylvania (RISE PA) Small-scale Award Track (SAT) grant program.
The following businesses have been awarded the first round of RISE PA SAT grants:
Energy Efficiency Infrastructure Projects
Allegheny County:
- Alpine Packaging, Inc., $106,333: Installing an LED lighting project to replace remaining non-LED fixtures within their facility. Estimated Energy Savings: $9,866
- Industrial Scientific, $121,305: Installing new air quality sensors and a controller to standardize HVAC operations in their equipment testing laboratories. Estimated Energy Saving: $95,987
- Value Added Processing, Inc., $699,937: Replacing an outdated overhead crane system that uses energy-intensive direct current (DC) motors with high-efficiency alternating current (AC) induction motors, enabling regenerative braking and energy recycling. Estimated Energy Savings: $15,052
- GE Energy Power Conversion USA Inc., $500,000: Replacing outdated 17 existing HVAC units with 17 high-efficiency units. Estimated Energy Savings: $55,895
Delaware County:
- PQ, LLC, $72,303: Replacing two 30-year-old compressors with one high efficiency standard air compressor and one high efficiency variable speed drive compressor. Estimated Energy Savings: $45,552
Jefferson County:
- Phoenix Sintered Metals, LLC, $36,799: Installing an LED lighting project to replace old fixtures and retrofit existing fixtures to install LEDs. Estimated Energy Savings: $20,104
Luzerne County:
- Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC, $276,100: Replacing 15 patented, custom-made (legacy) pocket spring production machines and 3 assembly machines with 6 new higher-capacity pocket coiling machines and 2 assembly machines equipped with dust collectors. Estimated Energy Savings: $12,583
Montgomery County:
- Enersys Advanced Systems Inc., $492,982: Increase energy efficiency and decarbonization through: upgrading their Building Automation System to improve capabilities to remotely control HVAC and lighting; replacing three rooftop units with new heat pump rooftop units; upgrading fluorescent lighting with LED bulbs; and replacing a single speed air compressor with a new variable speed model. Estimated Energy Savings: $45,537
Fugitive Emissions Reduction Infrastructure Projects
Lancaster County:
- Mars Wrigley Confectionery US, LLC., $499,234: Constructing a new cooling tunnel that will use chilled water directly from the site’s existing high-efficiency centrifugal chiller. This delivers cooling to the product without intermediate refrigerant and replaces 100 percent of the original hazard with non-hazard. Estimated Energy Savings: $3,096
Solar Infrastructure Projects
Berks County:
- Weaver Nut Company, Inc., $492,633: Installing a roof-mounted solar system to offset 19.9 percent of the facility’s annual electricity use. Estimated Energy Savings: $62,133
Dauphin County:
- Hearth & Home Technologies, LLC, $493,796: Installing a roof-mounted solar system to offset 19.8 percent of the facility’s annual electricity use. Estimated Energy Savings: $61,369
Lancaster County:
- Engle Printing & Publishing Co. Inc., $493,114: Installing a ballast-mounted solar system on the facility roof to offset 99.9 percent of the facility’s annual electricity use. Estimated Energy Savings: $12,583
Luzerne County:
- Northern Pelagic Group, LLC, $492,035: Installing a ballast-mounted solar system on the facility’s roof to offset 7 percent of the facility’s annual electricity use. Estimated Energy Savings: $63,197
York County:
- Monarch Products Co., Inc., $176,729: Installing a roof-mounted solar system to offset 99.9 percent of the facility’s annual electricity use. Estimated Energy Savings: $23,873
To learn more about RISE PA’s SAT program, please visit penntap.psu.edu/rise-pa.
View the DEP announcement here.
-April 2, 2026