Pathway 3.

Energy Efficiency, Conservation, and Fuel Switching in Buildings and Industry → Existing Buildings

3.3.12 Financing Deep Retrofits

11 Resources Found, Displaying 1 thru 10

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

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Guide for states seeking federal funding for clean energy standards, clean vehicle standards, managed energy infrastructure transitions, methane standards, and whole home energy retrofit programs.

RAP’s Building Modernization Legislative Toolkit

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments, State Public Utility Commissions

Meant to provide a comprehensive legislative resource to legislators and other policymakers seeking to advance building modernization policies such as energy efficiency and electrification.

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

Jurisdiction: Private Entities

Analyzes the technical, economic, and environmental implications of retrofitting fossil-gas-fired space heating and domestic hot water systems in a prototypical 50,000 square foot office building.

DOE Model Energy Savings Performance Contract

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments, Local Governments, Private Entities

DOE has drafted model ESPC language providing process descriptions, examples, and tables as well as the critical details that define the project, operations, and management.

Missouri Home Improvement Tax Deduction

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Allows homeowners to take an income tax deduction (up to $1000, or $2000 for couples) of the cost of home energy audits and associated energy efficiency improvements.

Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank’s Efficient Buildings Fund

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Provides attractive, long-term financing to municipalities and quasi-public agencies to finance energy retrofits in public buildings that will result in electric and heating savings greater than 20%.

Report, Beyond Guaranteed Savings

Jurisdiction: Private Entities

Reports that ESPCs commonly underestimate the amount of savings that actually accrues to site owners due to deep energy efficiency retrofits.

National Association of Energy Service Companies

Jurisdiction: Private Entities

Leads the energy services industry in promoting, developing, and advocating for the central role of energy efficiency as part of a comprehensive national energy agenda.

General Services Administration ESPCs

Jurisdiction: Individual Agencies, Private Entities

Report on government efforts to undertake deep energy retrofits using energy services performance contracts with outside contractors. The report highlights eight case studies, projects totaling $238M investment across different levels of government.

Hawaii DOT ESPC

Jurisdiction: State Agencies, Private Entities

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.