City Energy Project: Tips for Writing a Press Release
This guide explains the value of press releases for a city’s communications strategy and provides details on how to write press releases and make the most out of them.
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City Energy Project: Tips for Working with the Media
This guide details the elements of a good energy story and provides tips on getting in contact with the media.
Putting Data to Work: Using Monthly Data From Benchmarking Programs
Insights for Better Buildings and More Effective City Programs This resource was developed as part of Putting Data to Work, a multi-year pilot project aimed at using building performance data and asset information to help efficiency program implementers better target their outreach to building owners and increase the number of projects executed within these programs. … Continued
City Energy Project: Energy Efficiency Financing Primer
This primer provides an overview to key issues in energy efficiency financing and existing financing and emerging energy efficiency-focused financing mechanisms.
City Energy Project: Energy Efficiency Financing Tools for Private Buildings
This fact sheet provides an overview of the ways in which city officials can make available tools and mechanisms for financing efficiency in private sector buildings.
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.
City Energy Project: Establishing a Plan to Achieve Energy Code Compliance in Cities
This guide is designed to assist city leadership and their building departments in working together to implement an effective strategy to achieve high levels of energy code compliance for new and renovated buildings.
City Energy Project: Code Compliance in Cities: Assessing Progress and Identifying Improvements
This fact sheet highlights the benefits of performing a code compliance assessment, as well as describes the four-phases of the assessment methodology for code compliance.
City Energy Project: Assessment Methodology for Code Compliance in Medium and Large Cities (Data Collection Forms)
These data collection forms can be used in support of the Assessment Methodology for Code Compliance in Medium to Large Cities guide, and are intended for use by evaluators to gather the appropriate information on energy code compliance.
City Energy Project: Assessment Methodology for Code Compliance in Medium to Large Cities
This guide is a plug-and-play methodology designed for cities to evaluate the process of building practices through the lens of code compliance.