The HERO Program has been named the Nation's largest PACE financing program that helps residential and commercial property owners pay for solar installation, energy retrofits, and water conservation projects.
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As a 2013 IBM Smart Cities Challenge recipient, Knoxville, Tennessee, will soon be receiving outside perspective and expertise on connecting emergency utility bill payments to follow up weatherization measures.
Flagstaff conducts Resiliency and Preparedness Study to understand how the impacts of local climate changes will directly affect City operations resulting in incorporation of future climate changes planning into all City functions.
Through the establishment of their city-wide program, Solar Knoxville contributes to the promotion of solar development, saves the City thousands in utility bills, and shows state and regional leadership.
St. Louis Saves offers low interest loans to help local homeowners cut their energy use. With rates as low as 3.5%, the program is dedicated to increasing comfort while cutting energy bills and boosting local job growth.
The Sonoma County Water Agency is preparing an implementation plan for a Community Choice Aggregation program, which would allow residents and businesses to voluntarily pool their energy purchases together in one large bundle and shop for affordable, clean and local power supplies.
One person’s trash is another one’s treasure: Blue Ridge Biofuels of Asheville, NC collects used cooking oil from local restaurants and turns it into fuel that can be used anywhere that traditional diesel fuel is used, from cars and trucks to furnaces and farm equipment.
Seeking more local control over their electricity supply, and unhappy with their current utility’s clean energy offerings, the residents of Boulder, CO recently directed the city council to develop alternatives to business as usual, including establishing a new municipally owned utility.
The Sonoma County Water Agency is launching a Sustainable Energy Utility to implement energy efficiency and water conservation retrofits for public and non-profit facilities. The SEU will streamline the process of identifying energy saving projects, finance up-front costs with a bond issue, and cover its costs by sharing the resulting energy savings.
Swapping out lightbulbs in your home? Clarksburg, WV is going one step further. The town is swapping out their old streetlights in exchange for newer, more efficient LED models that will help the town save thousands in energy and maintenance costs.
Milwaukee Shines is helping to make Milwaukee a national leader in solar power by offering residents a suite of solar power options, built locally and installed by local professionals. It is partnering with a local credit union to offer low-interest financing and incentives to homeowners to make the solar power even more affordable.
Applied Solutions is a nonprofit organization working with local governments to help build a clean economy by undertaking clean energy and water projects that promote local job creation, energy savings, economic development and greater self-reliance strengthened by the integration of cleaner energy sources and efficiency measures.
Building literacy about the clean economy, what it is and how to get there, is priority for local governments as they manage up through leadership and action, to achieve a more stable and healthy economy nationally. The Clean Economy Knowledge Center offers simple descriptions of the tools that local governments can consider to build a clean economy with local and national benefits.
This is a tool that allows communities to pool energy demand ...
A method used to provide a group of buildings with space heating, hot water, ...
A policy approach designed to encourage investiment in renewable energy systems ...
Geothermal heat pumps use the consistent heat of the earth at relatively shallow ...
OBF an OBR are programs that allow residentia, commercial and industrial organizations to borrow ...
PACE is a volunetary local government tool to finance energy efficiency and renewable energy ...
A Sustainable Energy Utility presents new options to finance, market, and deliver sustainable energy ...
State legislatures and natural resource managers in the past have addressed water and energy as two ...
(QECBs) are a low cost option for local governments to finance certain types of clean energy projects ...