City Energy Project: San Antonio’s Municipal Revolving Loan Fund
This case study describes a revolving loan fund program in San Antonio that provides funds for ongoing energy efficiency investments in municipal buildings.
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Green Lease Leaders: How Industrial Building Owners Use the Lease to Optimize Sustainable Business Practices
This case study series shines a spotlight on 2019 Green Lease Leaders Sabey Data Centers, STAG Industrial, and Rexford Industrial. These leaders are injecting smart energy efficiency and sustainability strategies into their leasing practices and overall building operations.
Green Lease Leaders: Spurring Efficiency in Cleveland Businesses and City Buildings
In 2019, the City of Cleveland became the first city government to be recognized as a Green Lease Leader.
Rethinking Energy Data Access: Conquering Barriers to Achieve Local Climate Goals
Local governments across the U.S. are leading the charge on a variety of complex objectives, which include developing plans to meet long-term climate goals, improving public health, increasing access to energy-saving programs, and enhancing local resilience to extreme weather. Utilities play an invaluable role in these efforts by collecting and sharing energy consumption and program … Continued
Rethinking Energy Data Access: Executive Summary
This executive summary of Rethinking Energy Data Access: Conquering Barriers to Achieve Local Climate Goals provides an easy-to-digest summary of the report’s top findings and recommendations for local government sustainability staff, utilities, and utility regulators on how to reform the ways in which data is requested, protected, and shared in order to advance critical goals for each party.
Green Lease Leaders: Using the Lease to Galvanize Landlord-Tenant Engagement and Higher Performing Buildings
With a green, high-performance lease, landlords and tenants can better work together to save billions of dollars and lock in smarter, more efficient operation of buildings. Since its inception in 2014, IMT and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Better Buildings Alliance’ Green Lease Leaders recognition program has grown to include firms that represent more than 1.8 billion square … Continued
Green Lease Leaders: Using the Lease to Make Buildings More Healthy and Efficient
In part two of a new three-part case study series, IMT and DOE’s Better Buildings Alliance highlight 2018’s Green Lease Leaders such as Federal Realty and TD Bank for including innovative health and wellness strategies in their green lease agreements.
Green Lease Leaders: Using the Lease to Drive Innovation and Clean Energy
As part one of a new three-part case study series, IMT and DOE’s Better Buildings Alliance are shining a spotlight on 2018’s Green Lease Leaders that are using innovative strategies in their green leases and overall operations.
Putting Data to Work: Increasing Customer Engagement with Data
District of Columbia Sustainable Energy Utility Under its 2012 Sustainable DC plan, the District of Columbia established targets that include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50 percent by 2032 and by at least 80 percent by 2050, including a citywide energy-use reduction target of 50 percent by 2032. In December of 2017, Mayor Muriel … Continued
Putting Data to Work: Successful Partnerships to Accelerate Efficiency
NYC Retrofit Accelerator Cities adopting and implementing building performance benchmarking policies that require building owners to track and report their buildings’ energy and/or water use on a regular basis are collecting a trove of data that can be used to accelerate investments in energy upgrades in buildings. For energy efficiency program implementers, this data can … Continued