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
The City Energy Project was a pioneering joint national initiative of IMT and the Natural Resources Defense Council that sought to create healthier and more prosperous cities by improving the energy efficiency of buildings. From 2014 to 2021, the Project worked in parntership with 20 participating cities across the U.S. to support and advance innovative and practical solutions that reduce pollution, boost local economies, and create healthier environments.
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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.
City Energy Project: Communications Materials: Compliance Templates
This template toolkit provides the backbone documents for four key city-issued compliance communications.
City Energy Project: Model Ordinance Language for a Policy to Improve the Performance of Existing Buildings
These documents present sample language that can be used by jurisdictions interested in drafting a comprehensive existing building performance policy that encompasses provisions for benchmarking, as well as additional actions beyond benchmarking.
City Energy Project: Implementing Building Performance Policies: How Cities Can Apply Legislation for Maximum Effect
This guide helps cities launch and implement a benchmarking program that tracks building energy consumption and deploys the data to encourage building owners to improve building energy efficiency.