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Energize Delaware Gives $800,000 To Fund Climate Smart Homes In Wilmington

WILMINGTON, Del. (CBS) -- A Delaware nonprofit, sponsored in part by Exelon, is giving $800,000 to support building climate smart homes. Eyewitness News was in Wilmington Thursday morning. 

Energize Delaware Gives $800,000 To Fund Climate Smart Homes In Wilmington

Money from Energize Delaware is going to the nonprofit New Ecology Inc. It will collaborate with developers on all-electric homes. 

The nonprofit says those homes improve air quality.

Another goal is to make those homes affordable to low- and moderate-income families. 

Habitat For Humanity of New Castle County is one of the partners the in venture.

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