The U.S. Department of Transportation is awarding $100 million in stimulus funding to 43 transit agencies, including Denver metro’s Regional Transportation District, for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities, Green Car Congress.com reports.

RTD will receive $770,000 for heating upgrades at its East Metro bus maintenance facility in Aurora. This project will replace the three existing boilers with three new 15-psi, 20-ppm NOx boilers with Advanced Hawk Integrated Control Systems. The advanced control system will operate the boilers based on load demand as opposed to outside temperature.

The 43 winning proposals were submitted by transit agencies from across the country as part of a nationwide competition for the $100 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds. Selection criteria included a project’s ability to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions and also to provide a return on the investment.

Read the entire item including the other transit agencies’ amounts and projects at Green Car Congress.com.