City Energy Project: California Investor-Owned Utility On-Bill Financing Program
This case study describes on-bill financing programs managed by California investor-owned utilities.
Utilities
From rate structures and customer engagement efforts to infrastructure investments and sourcing decisions, utilities play an important role in helping today’s buildings be more efficient. Additionally, energy efficiency provides a valuable role in meeting needs across communities by serving as a cost-effective alternate to expensive transmission and distribution upgrades as well as by improving local energy resilience. IMT connects customers—be they building owners or managers or city governments—with utilities in ways that foster more frequent and open dialogue and create partnerships that improve utility service delivery and increase efficiency investment for all involved. Our resources exploring these collaborations are below.
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How Cities and Utilities Can Form Partnership Agreements to Accelerate Climate Action
Partnerships are powerful. From multinational climate change efforts down to neighborhood recycling and composting initiatives, combining skills and capacity makes any undertaking more manageable. For cities looking to take meaningful climate action, partnering with their utilities is a smart strategy. Take the city of Denver, Colorado for example. Denver recently entered into a formal partnership with … Continued
Using City-Utility Partnership Agreements to Achieve Climate and Energy Goals
The report helps cities and utilities evaluate partnership agreements to meet climate and energy goals.
City Energy Project: Engage with Utilities to Implement Energy Performance Policies
This guide focuses on the key steps that cities should take to engage their energy and water utilities around the development and implementation of a building performance policy.
City Energy Project: How Utilities Can Support Cities As Their Customers
This guide offers lessons learned for utilities on how to work effectively and proactively with local government customers to help those customers achieve their community energy goals.
The PUC Perspective on a New Era for Local Governments and Public Utilities Commissions
Diversity in perspective is key to robust decision-making. Bringing together a robust set of stakeholders to workshop a problem can uncover new solutions that might have not been otherwise identified. This holds true in many areas, but especially in regulatory environments, where affordability, environmental concerns, resilience, public health and safety, and equity of access may … Continued
Local Government Engagement with Public Utility Commissions Mini Guide
Growing numbers of local governments, such as cities and counties, have identified benefits from working with public utility commissions (PUCs or commissions) to further their goals around clean energy, resilience, and affordability. For local government staff, elected officials, and the communities they serve, this document identifies the opportunities and benefits of working with commissions on … Continued
A New Era for Local Governments and Public Utility Commissions: The City Perspective
Why should cities add engaging with their state public utilities commission (PUC) to their list of responsibilities?
Women in Energy Efficiency: Patti Boyd
In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting women leading the way on high-performance buildings. Meet Patti Boyd, Senior Technology Strategist at the District of Columbia Sustainable Energy Utility (DCSEU).
Creating Alignment between Cities and Utility Energy Efficiency Programs
Cities are increasingly acting as market catalysts to encourage and require building owners to improve energy performance. However, cities implementing building performance policies that require actions like audits or re-tuning may experience conflicts with their regulated utilities’ efficiency programs, which depend on energy savings being additional—not attributable to market adoption or preexisting laws. These utility … Continued