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Resource States and State Governments

RMI report, State Energy Policy in a Land of New Federal Opportunity

The Rocky Mountain Institute offers this 2024 guide to new and expanded federal funding programs, and highlights opportunities for states to pass and pay for clean energy policies. The report highligh...
Resource States and State Governments

Missouri Home Improvement Tax Deduction

In July 2008 Missouri enacted legislation (codified at Mo. R.S. 143.121(8)) allowing homeowners to take an income tax deduction (up to $1000, or $2000 for couples) of the cost of home energy audits an...
Example States and State Governments

Hawaii DOT ESPC

The Hawaii Dept. of Transportation completed a $245M contract for deep energy efficiency retrofits, the largest single-state ESPC in the US, with Johnson Controls. The project will target and generate...
Example States and State Governments

Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank’s Efficient Buildings Fund

The Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank’s Efficient Buildings Fund provides attractive, long-term financing to municipalities and quasi-public agencies to finance energy retrofits in public buildings tha...
Resource Private Entities

RMI Report, The Economics of Electrifying Buildings: Medium-Size Commercial Retrofits

Commercial buildings generate about 16 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions in the United States and about half of the total emissions from the building sector. Furthermore, direct fossil fuel comb...
Resource Private Entities

Report, Beyond Guaranteed Savings

In a 2013 report, Oak Ridge National Laboratory reports that ESPCs commonly underestimate the amount of savings that actually accrues to site owners due to deep energy efficiency retrofits. This is du...
Example Executive Branch

General Services Administration ESPCs

US General Services Administration issued a report on government efforts to undertake deep energy retrofits using energy services performance contracts with outside contractors. The report highlights ...
Resource States and State Governments

RAP’s Building Modernization Legislative Toolkit

The Regulatory Assistance Project, with collaborators at RMI, ACEEE, IMT, ReSolve and New Buildings Institute (NBI), have prepared a 2023 Building Modernization Legislative Toolkit. The toolkit is mea...
Example States and State Governments

DOE Model Energy Savings Performance Contract

An Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) defines a project and establishes how it will be implemented during construction and how it will be managed through the entire term of the agreement, addr...
Resource Private Entities

National Association of Energy Service Companies

The National Association of Energy Service Companies leads the energy services industry in promoting, developing, and advocating for the central role of energy efficiency as part of a comprehensive na...
Resource Local Governments

Evansville ESPC

Evansville and Johnson Controls completed a contract for deep energy efficiency retrofits, valued at $39M initial investment, with a 20 year payback. The project addresses lighting, HVAC, controls, va...