Skip to main content
Energy.gov Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Residential Program Guide
  • About
  • Common Topics

Secondary

  • Explore Residential Guide
    • Handbook Index
    • Program Components
    • Program Design Phases
  • Resources
    • Quick Answers
    • Proven Practices
    • Energy Data Facts
    • Tips For Success
    • Resource Library
    • Glossary
  • Tech Solutions
    • About Tech Solutions
    • HVAC
    • Heat Pump Water Heater

Breadcrumbs

EERE » Residential Program Guide » Common Search Topics » Search by Topic

Page title

Search by Topic

Showing results 1 - 37 of 37

Financing – Develop Resources

Develop the procurement, outreach, and loan support resources required to perform your financing activities.
Handbook

Market Position & Business Model – Develop Resources

Identify and develop needed resources to position your organization in the market and maintain a viable business model.
Handbook

Financing – Make Design Decisions

Determine if enhancements to existing financing products or the development of new products are necessary to allow you to achieve your goals and objectives.
Handbook

Marketing & Outreach – Develop Implementation Plans

Develop a marketing and outreach plan that details your strategies and tactics, workflows and timelines, staff roles and responsibilities, and budget.
Handbook

Financing – Identify Partners

Identify and partner with financial institutions that can provide capital, underwriting, and other functions to enable your customers to access financing.
Handbook

Marketing & Outreach – Assess the Market

Identify and prioritize potential target audiences based on their likely receptivity to your program's services.
Handbook

Program Design & Customer Experience – Overview

Design a residential energy efficiency program that integrates marketing and outreach, contractor coordination, incentives, financing, and program evaluation to provide customers with the products and services they want through a customer-centric process.
Handbook

Financing – Overview

Ensure that your program’s customers will have access to affordable financing, so they can pay for the services you offer.
Handbook

Evaluation & Data Collection – Overview

Develop evidence-based insights into your program’s performance through third-party process and impact evaluations. Learn how to develop effective data collection strategies and timely evaluations to identify important program achievements as well as opportunities for making program improvements.
Handbook

Marketing & Outreach – Overview

Spur consumer demand for your program's services by understanding your target audience and motivating them to act using effective messaging, marketing and outreach tactics, and attractive program offers.
Handbook

Program Design & Customer Experience – Develop Resources

Develop the necessary materials, tools, and staff capacity to effectively deliver and manage your program.
Handbook

Evaluation & Data Collection – Develop Evaluation Plans

Identify the right questions to ask, appropriate metrics to collect, and the processes needed to initiate third-party impact and process evaluations.
Handbook

Contractor Engagement & Workforce Development – Make Design Decisions

Solidify your program strategy and decide which customers you will focus on; what products, services, and support you will provide; and how you will partner with contractors and others to deliver services to your customers.
Handbook

Contractor Engagement & Workforce Development – Identify Partners

Establish relationships with contractors who will deliver program products and services, and with organizations that train and certify workers.
Handbook

Contractor Engagement & Workforce Development – Overview

Support and partner with the workforce who will deliver your program’s energy efficiency services by understanding their capacity, recruiting contractor partners, enabling technical training and business development support, fostering clear communication, and refining program processes over time, in partnership with your workforce.
Handbook

When partnering with lenders through a request for proposal (RFP), establish a clear process and remain flexible

Establishing strong, collaborative partnerships with one or more lending partners is critical for successful delivery of affordable home energy lending. These partnerships are typically created through a request for proposal (RFP) process which can encourage market competition and help to attract...
Tips for Success

Establish a clear system and process for ensuring quality work

A residential energy efficiency program’s success is dependent on the quality of work that contractors conduct in customers’ homes. Indeed, an in-depth examination of selected program strategies found that effective quality assurance and quality control programs provided a foundation for quality...
Tips for Success

Financing Programs: RFP & Contract Terms and Conditions

Author(s)
U.S. Department of Energy
Publication Date
2011
Organizations or Programs
SustainableWorks,
RePower Kitsap,
RePower Bainbridge,
RePower Bremerton,
Milwaukee Energy Efficiency (Me2),
City of San Diego Residential Energy Efficiency Loan Program

This webcast discusses financing program RFPs and contract terms and conditions.

Resource - Webcast

Green for All Energy Efficiency Toolkit

Author(s)
Green For All
Publication Date
2012
Organizations or Programs
Enhabit,
Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation (WECC),
EnergyWorks KC,
Baltimore Neighborhood Energy Challenge,
BetterBuildings for Greensboro,
Green and Healthy Homes Initiative,
Working Partnerships USA,
NYC Apollo Alliance,
Community Power Works,
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA),
RePower Bremerton,
Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP),
RePower Bainbridge,
Better Buildings Near Eastside Neighborhood Sweeps Program,
RePower Kitsap,
Michigan Saves,
Keystone Home Energy Loan Program (HELP),
EnergySmart,
Efficiency Vermont,
Long Island Green Homes,
Energy Impact Illinois,
Energize Bedford,
reEnergize

This practitioner-focused Toolkit for Residential Energy Efficiency Upgrade Programs was created by Green For All to assist new, established, and future energy efficiency programs launch and scale initiatives that can deliver the full promise of the green economy. It is intended as a practical resource that offers examples, tools, and templates that a program manager can deploy to implement a variety of aspects of their program including best practice briefs and summary documents, RFPs, contracts, and other program design and implementation templates that communities nationwide have used to create their own efficiency programs.

Resource - Tools & Calculators

DOE Template Financial Institution RFP

Author(s)
U.S. Department of Energy
Publication Date
2010

A template competitive procurement procedure to award loan loss reserve funds to a financial institution partner.

Resource - Templates & Forms

Request for Proposals for Energy Efficiency Loan Products

Author(s)
Dan Curry, BetterBuildings for Greensboro
Publication Date
2011
Organizations or Programs
BetterBuildings for Greensboro

This presentation provides an overview of the lending RFP issued by the city of Greensboro's Better Buildings Program, including a description of the roles and responsibilities for the city and its financial partners.

Resource - Program Presentations & Reports

Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility Request for Qualifications for Home Performance with ENERGY STAR with Complimentary Home Energy Check Up Program Implementation Contractor

Author(s)
Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility
Publication Date
2017
Organizations or Programs
Energize Delaware

This RFQ from Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility (DESEU) seeks an implementation firm that can deliver the Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES) Program cost-effectively for a three-year period.

Resource - Program Materials

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory RFP for Better Buildings Program Assessment

Author(s)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Publication Date
2011

Sample Request for Proposals (RFP) was issued by Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory for a process and impact evaluation for the U.S. Department of Energy's Better Buildings Neighborhood Program.

Resource - Program Materials

Boulder County Request for Proposal: Colorado Retrofit Ramp-Up Support Services

Author(s)
Boulder County, Colorado
Publication Date
2010
Organizations or Programs
EnergySmart Colorado

Example Request for Proposal (RFP) to provide Boulder County, Colorado with support services for its Retrofit Ramp Up Program including a social mobilization campaign, database management services, and marketing/public relations services for the both the residential and commercial parts of the Program.

Resource - Program Materials

City of Greensboro Request for Proposal: Business Process Management Information Technology Tool

Author(s)
BetterBuildings for Greensboro
Publication Date
2012
Organizations or Programs
BetterBuildings for Greensboro
Example Request for Proposal (RFP) to provide The City of Greensboro with an estimate for the work required to create a Business Process Management Information Technology Tool (BPM IT Tool) for a municipal energy efficiency project.
Resource - Program Materials

Request for Proposal for Branding and Communications

Author(s)
Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance
Publication Date
2010
Organizations or Programs
Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA)
This request for proposal from the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance is for branding and communications support.
Resource - Program Materials

Request for Proposals for Phase V (Neighborhood Phase) of Clean Energy Works Portland (now Enhabit)

Author(s)
Clean Energy Works Oregon (now Enhabit)
Publication Date
2010
Organizations or Programs
Enhabit

This is an example of an RFP for workforce development and other program elements. The RFP covers recruitment, outreach and marketing oriented to homeowners and workers, and service delivery of energy assessments and upgrades.

Resource - Program Materials

Sample RFP: Energy Efficiency Credit Enhancement Grant

Author(s)
State of Washington Department of Commerce
Publication Date
2009
Organizations or Programs
RePower Kitsap,
RePower Bainbridge,
RePower Bremerton
A sample request for proposals from Washington state to develop an energy efficiency credit enhancement grant program.
Resource - Program Materials

Sample RFP: Third-party Process Evaluator

Author(s)
Michigan Saves
Publication Date
2009
Organizations or Programs
Michigan Saves
Sample RFP from Michigan Saves for a third-party to conduct an evaluability assessment and process evaluation for the program during the first phase of implementation.
Resource - Program Materials

Sample RFP: City of Bainbridge Island Energy Revolving Loan Fund/Loan Loss Reserve Administration

Author(s)
City of Bainbridge Island, Washington
Publication Date
2010
Organizations or Programs
RePower Kitsap,
RePower Bainbridge,
RePower Bremerton
A sample request for proposals from Bainbridge Island, Washington, related to establishing a revolving loan fund and loan loss reserve.
Resource - Program Materials

Sample RFP: City of Independence, Missouri

Author(s)
City of Independence, Missouri
Publication Date
2010

A sample competitive procurement procedure to award loan loss reserve funds to a financial institution partner.

Resource - Program Materials

Sample RFP: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Rebate Program

Author(s)
EnergySmart
Publication Date
2010
Organizations or Programs
EnergySmart Colorado

A sample request for proposals from Boulder County, Colorado, to develop an energy efficiency and renewable energy rebate program.

Resource - Program Materials

Sample RFP: Greensboro Energy Efficiency Loan Products

Author(s)
BetterBuildings for Greensboro
Publication Date
2014
Organizations or Programs
BetterBuildings for Greensboro

A sample RFP from Greensboro, North Carolina, for energy efficiency loan products.

Resource - Program Materials

New York State Energy Research & Development Authority Task Work Order Request Integrated Marketing Communications Program for Green Jobs - Green New York Marketing Program

Author(s)
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
Publication Date
2010
Organizations or Programs
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
This is a sample request for proposals (RFP) from New York state for integrated marketing and communications support.
Resource - Program Materials

Request for Proposals for the EnergyWorks Public Information and Marketing Campaign for the City of Philadelphia

Author(s)
City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Publication Date
2010
Organizations or Programs
EnergyWorks
This is a sample request for proposals (RFP) from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for public information and marketing support.
Resource - Program Materials

Request for Proposals: Development and Execution of the Communications Strategy for the Chicago Region Retrofit Ramp-Up (CR3) Program

Author(s)
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
Publication Date
2010
Organizations or Programs
Energy Impact Illinois
This sample RFP from Chicago can be used as an example when developing a communications strategy.
Resource - Program Materials

Strategic Marketing Services RFP

Author(s)
Eagle County, Colorado
Publication Date
2010
Organizations or Programs
EnergySmart Colorado
This is a sample request for proposals (RFP) from Eagle County, Colorado, for marketing services.
Resource - Program Materials

Content Type

  • Resource (20)
  • Handbook (15)
  • Tips for Success (2)

Resource Type

Program Components

  • Market Position & Business Model (1)
  • Program Design & Customer Experience (3)
  • Evaluation & Data Collection (7)
  • Marketing & Outreach (8)
  • Financing (14)
  • Contractor Engagement & Workforce Development (6)

Program Design Phases

  • Overview (5)
  • Strategy Development (16)
  • Planning (14)
  • Implementation (18)
  • Evaluation (3)

States or Territories

  • California (1)
  • Colorado (3)
  • Delaware (1)
  • Illinois (2)
  • Maryland (1)
  • Michigan (1)
  • Missouri (1)
  • New York (2)
  • North Carolina (3)
  • Oregon (2)
  • Pennsylvania (1)
  • Vermont (1)
  • Washington (3)

Organizations or Programs

  • RePower Bainbridge (5)
  • BetterBuildings for Greensboro (4)
  • RePower Bremerton (4)
  • RePower Kitsap (4)
  • Energy Impact Illinois (3)
  • EnergySmart Colorado (3)
  • Enhabit (2)
  • Michigan Saves (2)
  • New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) (2)
  • Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA) (2)
  • Baltimore Neighborhood Energy Challenge (1)
  • Better Buildings Near Eastside Neighborhood Sweeps Program (1)
  • City of San Diego Residential Energy Efficiency Loan Program (1)
  • Community Power Works (1)
  • Efficiency Vermont (1)
  • Energize Bedford (1)
  • Energize Delaware (1)
  • EnergySmart (1)
  • EnergyWorks (1)
  • EnergyWorks KC (1)
  • Green and Healthy Homes Initiative (1)
  • Keystone Home Energy Loan Program (HELP) (1)
  • Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP) (1)
  • Long Island Green Homes (1)
  • Milwaukee Energy Efficiency (Me2) (1)
  • NeighborWorks of Western Vermont (1)
  • NYC Apollo Alliance (1)
  • NYSERDA (1)
  • reEnergize (1)
  • Small Town Energy Program (STEP) (1)
  • SustainableWorks (1)
  • Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation (WECC) (1)
  • Working Partnerships USA (1)
Residential Program Guide is a resource of the U.S. Department of Energy's Building Technologies Office.
Contact | Building Technologies Office

OFFICE of
ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

Forrestal Building
1000 Independence Ave. SW
Washington DC 20585

Link to Facebook Link to Twitter Link to Youtube Link to Linkedin

An office of

Energy.Gov

About EERE

Careers and Internships

EERE Home

Publications Library

Contact EERE

Energy.gov Resources

Budget & Performance

Directives, Delegations & Requirements

FOIA

Inspector General

Privacy Program

Small Business

Staff & Contractor Resources

Federal Government

The White House

USA.gov

  • Web Policies
  • Privacy
  • No Fear Act
  • Whistleblower Protection
  • Information Quality
  • Open Gov
  • Accessibility
  • Vulnerability Disclosure Program