Example of a program design flowchart showing key steps and relationships for the energy efficiency program in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Example proposal evaluation scoring sheet to rank qualifications of financial institution bidders for energy efficiency upgrade loan programs.
This packet contains all the contractor reporting and verification forms required by Energy Impact Illinois.
A sample for defining and elaborating on the specifics of a clean energy loan program.
A sample RFP from Greensboro, North Carolina, for energy efficiency loan products.
Data release form that allows the Connecticut Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority (CEFIA) to obtain customer utility account and actual energy usage data, energy costs, underwriting and loan repayment records, and data on energy savings measures installed.
The Role of Behavioral Programs in Portfolios
This webcast discusses policy and planning considerations for incorporating behavior programs into efficiency portfolios.
Instructional step-by-step guide for visiting a home to discuss and install energy efficiency measures.
Analyzing and Managing Bill Impacts on Energy Efficiency Programs
This webcast reviews the SEE Action report which provides policymakers with principles and recommendations to understand and manage concerns about bill and rate impacts resulting from requiring utilities to provide efficiency programs.
Chapel Hill WISE created this policy to establish a standard procedure for corrective action and dismissal for contractors. The policy lists standards that contractors are expected to meet, and procedures that the program follows to review concerns, place contractors on probation, and dismiss those who are unable to resolve identified issues.
Efficiency Maine developed this online portal, where many of its program forms are available for download (e.g., program overviews and manuals, participation agreements, and related application materials).
Flier that summarizes energy efficiency financing offered by Xcel Energy's financing partners.
This resource is designed to help new users to ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager get started with benchmarking.
Example survey about a homeowner's experience with a visit from an energy advisor as part of EnergySmart in Boulder County, Colorado.
Lessons Learned: Measuring Program Outcomes and Using Benchmarks
The document provides best practices and guidance for conducting the energy analysis required for multifamily (MF) building energy improvement projects funded by the various programs of the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development. The intended audience includes energy auditors, building owners and operators, contractors, designers, architects, engineers, and energy efficiency consultants and program staff.
Preliminary Impact Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy's Better Buildings Neighborhood Program
Preliminary Process and Market Evaluation: Better Buildings Neighborhood Program
Raising Investment Funds for Clean Energy Programs & Working with Financial Institutions
Sources of Energy Efficiency Program Savings for Air Regulators
This presentation cover how and where air quality regulators and others can find information to support the use of energy efficiency to achieve emissions reductions and other co-benefits. Resources covered include a report by the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) on energy efficiency data sources for air regulators and the Regional Energy Efficiency Database (REED).
State, Regional and National Energy Efficiency Forecasting
This webcast provides approaches for projecting, analyzing and representing end-use energy efficiency potential and its impacts on state, regional and national energy use.
Tools for Designing & Implementing Better Finance Programs
Using Integrated Resource Planning to Encourage Investment in Cost-Effective Energy Efficiency Measures
This webcast reviews the SEE Action report that describes how utility planning processes that allow demand-side resources to compete with supply-side resources can promote cost-effective energy efficiency.
The ultimate objective of the protocol is to develop a system that can be used to guide the production of readily usable dataset that can leverage project data from future meter-based measurement and evaluation studies, or metering studies to develop end-use load shapes. The protocol includes a "NEEP Residential Data Collection Protocol Report" template.
RePower helped consumers access aggregated information about financing and rebates by compiling a customer-friendly guide to all utility and non-utility incentives in its service area.
Clean Energy Program Funding: EPA Local Climate and Webcast Series
Three-part webinar series. Part I discusses how to design and implement funding programs, line up partners, and gain support for clean energy programs through both conventional and non-conventional methods. Part II discusses how to locate available sources of funding. Part III explains how to leverage existing funds and make clean energy investments more affordable for clean energy program audiences.
Primer for Clean Energy works Portland financial offering. Includes loan term and rates, transfer of ownership, and underwriting criteria to expand access to financing for low-income residents.
Concierge Programs for Contractors - They're Not Just for Consumers Anymore
This webcast includes slides and information on programs' use of concierge programs to support contractors. It highlights two program examples: Clean Energy Works Oregon (now Enhabit) and Vermont NeighborWorks.
Form used by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission for consent to disclose utility customer data.
A template agreement that addresses the full energy efficiency or renewable energy loan origination cycle.
Efficiency Maine created a code of conduct for contractors to follow when working in homes. The code is available for download on the Efficiency Maine website, and dictates guidelines for respecting homeowners' property and communicating with the homeowner about appropriate information. Users on the Efficiency Maine website can search a list of vendors that have agreed to follow the code.
Exploring Opportunities for Energy Efficiency as a Revenue Stream in the Forward Capacity Markets
Exploring Opportunities for Energy Efficiency as a Revenue Stream in the Forward Capacity Markets
Keeping Up With Your Audience, So They Keep Up With Your Program
An example of a detailed and thorough implementation guide written for the Michigan Saves program.
To deliver the most effective residential energy efficiency programs possible, NYSERDA implemented a quality assurance process to verify that projects meet all program requirements while maintaining healthy and safe conditions for the occupants.
Part I: Getting Started: Answering Big Picture Funding Questions
This webcast (Part I of a three-part series) covers the big picture questions that local governments should consider for funding clean energy programs. What resources are available? What are the program priorities? How can these programs pay for themselves? What funding is available? The webinar guides local governments through these and other questions in the context of their own unique circumstances and illustrates the concepts through case studies that explore how local governments have used both conventional and unconventional methods to gain support, line up partners, and design and implement their funding programs.
Part II: Getting it Funded: Finding Funding for your Clean Energy Programs
This webcast (Part II of a three-part series) discusses how climate and clean energy programs can find funding.
Part III: Keeping it Going: Financing Options for your Clean Energy Programs
Homeowner survey created by the utility to inform their whole home upgrade program.
This report presents the preliminary process and market evaluation of the Better Buildings Neighborhood Program. As part of the evaluation, the report identifies the factors most strongly correlated with the 10 most successful grantees' performance and offers recommendations to the Energy Department and grant recipients for the final program year.
Homeowner data collection survey created by RePower.
This mid-program evaluation includes extensive analysis of program sectors, including results of surveys of participants, and summarizes lessons learned to date.
Tracking Household Perceptions and Actions
This on-demand webinar discusses what residential customers in Wisconsin, the Midwest, and the nation have to say about energy topics. Learn about the Energy Center of Wisconsin's (now Seventhwave's) research on consumer perceptions and actions concerning their energy use at home based on the 2011 Midwest Energy Survey.
A Guide to Using AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps Teams to Execute Your Mission
These BetterBuildings for Michigan mailers show satisfied program customers claiming they have the power to make changes and bring results by increasing the efficiency of their homes.
Build Your Better Buildings Brand
This data intake template spreadsheet provides a way to track home energy performance metrics.
This template, used by Clean Energy Works Oregon (now Enhabit), standardizes a number of forms that contractors fill out for the program.
Collaboration and Consensus Building in States to Support Energy Efficiency as a Resource
Communicating Success: Measuring Improvements, Sharing Results
Community Development Finance Institutions: Opportunities for Partnerships with Energy Efficiency Programs
Survey for Minnesota home owners participating in Community Energy Services pilot program about their experience at their home visit.
Authorization form to obtain household energy information.
Authorization form to obtain household energy information.
This guide from Boulder County's EnergySmart service is an example of expectations and guidelines for contractor operations.
Developing an Evaluation Measurement and Verification Plan for Your Energy Efficiency Project/Program
This webcast discussed developing an Evaluation Measurement and Verification Plan for energy efficiency programs, including the collection of data and analysis of program performance.
Developing an Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Plan For Residential Retrofit Programs
Describes program guidelines for EmPower Louisiana's Home Energy Rebate Option (HERO)-Existing Homes Program. Provides guidance to participants on how the EmPower Louisiana HERO Program will be implemented, and provides details on all aspects of the application and reporting process.
This marketing plan from EnergyWorks Kansas City includes a strategic focus for the program's outreach activities, as well as three core marketing objectives Kansas City set out to meet.
Engaging Financial Institution Partners
Sample phone survey template for program contractors.
This sample phone survey template for program drop-outs, created by the Better Buildings Neighborhood Program, was designed for programs to find out why applicants that applied to participate in a program ultimately dropped out.
This sample phone survey template, created by the Better Buildings Neighborhood Program, was designed for programs to use with applicants who have been screened out from participating in a program.
This sample email survey template, created by the Better Buildings Neighborhood Program, was designed for programs to develop their own survey of successful program participants in order to assess customer experience.
Exploring Power Purchase Agreements: The Basics, Part 1
This lease agreement is an example of an equipment lease from the Fayette County equipment loan program for contractors.
Fayette County, Pennsylvania completed a county-wide housing market analysis in 2005. The Fayette County Better Buildings program used information contained in the analysis to help inform its program design. For example, the program drew on information about the county's "patch" communities, which are towns constructed in the early 1900s by coal companies to house workers--to ensure that the program would address the unique conditions within these communities.