Community Energy Efficiency Planning Services
The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program is allocating $2.6 billion to U.S. counties, cities, and Indian tribes specifically for energy efficiency and renewable energy investments.
How will your community capture these funds and put them to the quickest, best use?
Shepherd Advisors has created a new website, www.energy-efficiency-plan.com to educate communities about the opportunity.
But that is not all. Shepherd Advisors can also work with you one-on-one to complete the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant application, by guiding you through the process.
Shepherd Advisors' Services can help you accomplish the following things, and answer key questions like these:
1) Establishment of an Energy Baseline
- You will be asked to report your energy use reductions. Do you know how much energy is currently used across your community?
- How is it divided out among types of users (homes, businesses, municipal buildings, etc)?
- How is that energy used in terms of systems, equipment, or appliances?
2) Consideration of appropriate energy use reduction strategies
- What are some best practices and proven solutions for reducing energy use?
- Where is your community "ripe" for equipment upgrades for energy efficiency?
- What behaviors and processes can be improved for energy conservation?
3) Group and public facilitation to gain input and build consensus
- What energy issues do your residents and businesspeople think are most important?
- How can you effectively seek their input and inspire them to participate?
- How do you forge the consensus and agreement that leads to action?
4) Prioritization of alternatives, and decision making
- How will you sort through the numerous and long lists of possible activities?
- How do you determine which ones would make the most meaningful impacts?
- How will you decide which ones to actively pursue?
5) Implementation planning
- How will you create and implement these new programs?
- Who will be your local and state partners?
- Where will you source and buy products and services?
Shepherd Advisors can work with your community one-on-one in order to guide you through the process to find great answers to all of the questions above.
Please contact Shanna Draheim or Ramsey Zimmerman today to discuss how we can get started.
