City Energy Project: Energy Efficiency Financing Tools for Municipal Buildings
This fact sheet provides an overview of the ways city officials can finance energy efficiency investments in municipal buildings.
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Use Case: Distribution Grid Performance
This use case focuses on distribution grid performance, which helps local governments identify opportunities to improve local reliability and resilience, to improve emergency planning and response, and to encourage targeted investments in distributed energy resources (DERs) for health, safety, and cost reasons.
Use Case: Community-Wide Energy Usage Data
This use case focuses on community-wide energy usage data, which helps local governments calculate carbon emissions, set policy goals, track program progress over time, and identify opportunities for more targeted outreach around priorities like building efficiency.
Use Case: Anonomyzed Energy Usage Profile Data
This use case focuses on anonomyzed energy usage profile data, which helps local governments understand energy usage trends within the community that may inform the development of energy policies and programs.
Use Case: Whole-Building Energy Data
This use case focuses on whole-building energy data, which helps building owners understand and improve building energy performance.
Use Case: Energy Efficiency Program Savings and Participation
This use case focuses on energy efficiency program savings and participation data, which helps local governments understand trends in energy efficiency program uptake, identify under-represented neighborhoods that could benefit from efficiency, and assess trends in costs related to the implementation of particular measures, which may make them more or less likely to be acted upon by building owners.