City-Scale Retrofit Programs Satya Rhodes-Conway COWS June 18, 2009.
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City-Scale Retrofit Programs Satya Rhodes-Conway COWS June 18, 2009
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City-Scale Retrofit Programs
Satya Rhodes-ConwayCOWS
June 18, 2009
COWS“Milk for the Movement”
Research center at UW Madison
“Think-and-do tank” for high-road economic development
Good jobs and clean energy
The Problem(s) High energy use and
bills GHG emissions Inefficient buildings Cost of
improvements Hard to get and pay
back a loan Unemployment Dead-end jobs
Buildings cause: 38.9% of U.S. energy
use 38% of U.S. CO2
emissions Low-income
households spend 14% of their income on energy, compared with 3.5% by other American households
The Solution: Energy Efficiency Retrofits
Measures like: air sealing insulation lighting and appliance
upgrades Relatively low-cost Reduce energy bills Cost-effective GHG
reduction Can provide good,
entry-level jobs
Pete Davis
Costs and Savings from 10-year payback measures in Milwaukee, WI
# Units
Avg. Cost
Total Cost
Avg. unit
annual savings
Total annual savings
Rental 126,793
$1,278 $162.0M $482 $61.1M
Owner Occ*
83,052 $911 $95.8M $251 $22.2M
Total 209,845
$1,158 $243.1M
$397 $83.3M
*Units with most need for retrofits: owner occupied built before 1960 and all rental properties
Who Does this? Energy Service
Corporations (ESCOs) and/or large contractors (large industrial or institutional buildings)
Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) contractors (low-income residential properties)
small contractors (private residential or commercial properties)Sammy Avedon, Town of Babylon
Why isn’t this enough? Funding available only to:
income-eligible individuals individuals with sufficient up-
front capital to pay for the work
Rely on inefficient referral systems or trust customers to come to them
Residential or commercial buildings, but not both
Variable job quality and advancement opportunities
Sammy Avedon, Town of Babylon
City-Scale Retrofit Programs
Four key components:
Capture the financial savings from retrofits and use them to pay back the loan
Any jobs created are good jobs and provide training for a career pathway
Achieve economies of scale and consider including both residential and commercial buildings
Target the program to low-income communities, both in terms of where the work is done and who is hired to do it
City-Scale Retrofit Programs Issues to Address
a. Financing
b. Establishing the Coordinating Entity(ies)
c. Technology and Materials
d. Job Training
e. Community Access to Jobs
f. Working with Unions
g. Ensuring Job Quality
h. Ensuring Retrofit Quality
i. Targeting by Geography and Building Type
j. Marketing
k. Customer Service/Service Delivery
l. Certification of Savings
m. Secure Cost-Recovery
n. Evaluation and Improvement
How to set up a program: Key Areas Stakeholders
Involve as many as possible
Policy Do you need changes to
state or local law? Program Structure
Who manages? Targeting and Marketing
“One stop shop” Quality Control and
Evaluation Financing and
Repayment Labor Standards and
Workforce Development
Financial Structure A revolving loan
fund
with on-bill repayment
that follows the property or the meter
Revolving loans make funding available into the future – long after ARRA is gone and the grants are spent
Allows convenient payment from energy savings
Not a personal loan – a service to improve the property
Financing Sources:
Energy Efficiency And Conservation Block Grants 20% can be used for
loan funds Qualified Energy
Conservation Bonds Municipal bonds State public benefits
funds Don’t forget about
rebates and tax incentives
Repayment Utility Bill
Portland, Michigan Municipal Services
Bill Milwaukee
Benefit or Local Improvement Assessment Districts Babylon, Berkeley,
Boulder
Labor Standards A green job is a good
job:
Higher than poverty wages
Paid sick leave Health care benefits Job security Safe working
conditions Organizing rights Pathways to
advancement
Alliance for Affordable Energy
Workforce Development Don’t reinvent the
training wheel Build on established
training pathways in state and local workforce systems Apprenticeship is a
well-established pathway to a good job
Targeted hiring from disadvantaged communities
Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership Entry Level
Construction Skills (ELCS)-Weatherization Certificate
Initial Assessment and Community Partners
Employer-Driven Training
Leveraging Resources for Training
Mentoring and Worker Support
More Information:
Efficiency Cities Network
www.efficiencycities.us
Satya Rhodes-Conway
608 262 5387
Available at http://cows.org/pdf/rp-retrofit.pdf
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