Energy improvement projects provide tremendous opportunity to capture both energy savings and economic benefits.
[ Read More → ]In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Congress increased to $3.2 billion the total face amount (“allocation”) of QECBs that states, territories, large local governments, and tribal governments could issue to finance renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
[ Read More → ]What is one thing most policymakers can agree on? The value of energy efficiency. The State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network (SEE Action) is a state- and local-led effort facilitated by the DOE and EPA to bring energy efficiency to scale through state and local action.
[ Read More → ]Advances in alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) technologies and policies, and state and federal actions to improve fuel economy, are challenging the dominance of fossil fuels in the transportation sector.
[ Read More → ]Several states have expressed public aspirations to shift away from the use of ratepayer-funded energy efficiency incentives and toward leveraging of private capital as a primary strategy for achieving energy efficiency goals.
[ Read More → ]Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing is a simple and effective way to fund energy efficiency, renewable energy, and water conservation upgrades to buildings.
[ Read More → ]Energy efficiency loans reduce the barrier of high initial investment cost of the appliance or installation, but how can lenders in the energy efficiency industry solve other problems faced by families struggling to get by?
[ Read More → ]Higher education, though rarely considered a “hard to reach” customer segment for utility-led efficiency programs, is often underserved relative to the savings potential.
[ Read More → ]The amount of data available to inform decision making has increased rapidly over the past few decades. We can find statistics on the gas mileage and resale prices for different types of used cars, and we can use smartphone apps to scan bar codes to track the nutritional content of our food.
[ Read More → ]This past September both the Fannie Mae Multifamily Energy and Water Market Research Survey and the Energy Star Score for Multifamily Housing were released. Together these mark huge strides for multifamily energy efficiency, as both seek to catalyze market activity.
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