And, again, prescriptive components for the simple things that you know work - lighting, things like that - can be triggered late in the design process. You don't have to get involved real early. You've got custom components that are site-specific and, again, the same incentive basis typically. And you can be multiple measures, multiple systems in the building. And then there's a comprehensive approach that targets a design process.
It's the holistic look at the building and all components. And rather than incenting a lighting and an HVAC system it's, "How do you get the whole building to work together? Next slide if you would. New construction targets the lost opportunities. A big part of it is technical services. It's training. It's getting to the design-build teams. It's design assistance. Some programs you do the energy modeling that they need to do.
You may be supplementing commissioning of the building. It's in addition to the incentives for the equipment. You also look at how do you make it run right once it's in there. And now the key is keep the processes simple. And a good program will leverage green building initiatives because right now that has more to do with people moving forward on new construction projects than the incentives tend to - tend to. What do you typically have in these programs? Basically anything that uses energy.
Lighting controls, motors, HVAC. Although motors will tend to be going away at the end of this year because the new federal minimum standards. Then you have a lot of industrial. Compressed air, refrigeration, process heating and cooling. Lesser extent, building envelope.
Most of the building codes have got that to where it's difficult to make those things cost-effective. Technical assistance. You're trying to help people figure out how to save the most energy they can and use their spending wisely. It can be walk-through audits. Help 'em get their head around the things they can do.
Then you may get into individual parts of what you discover in a walkthrough audit to help 'em develop a project. Design assistance - some programs provide incentives to design teams for the extra work they have to do to develop and present energy efficiency.
Commissioning lead certification. All of these things come into good program design and tend to - you get more of them the bigger the program is because funding does matter.
In commercial-industrial programs the typical outreach channels are aimed at driving participation in the program. You've got the typical trade allies, the vendors and contractors that work in the marketplace. Your associations. Design firms. The architectural and engineering firms.
The outreach takes on a lot of different formats. One-on-one, very effective one for design community as one should learn. Quite often it is market segment-based. And you always try to leverage the utility account managers for their contacts and access. They do have relationships with the customers. And to ignore that can be counterproductive. Catul, next slide. A little bit of using the ARRA funds with programs. You've got to have different strategies for areas with and without existing utility or public benefit funds rebate programs.
Where there are - is funding available you want to compliment the program. You don't want to compete with it. Setting up a program that is in competition with a utility program by offering different incentive levels for the same things creates competition - confusion in the marketplace. And it can make the focus be not the saving the energy but, "Where do we get the bigger incentive for doing it?
And that often times will kill projects. A good way to compliment is to fill niche needs to increase participation. In the two examples that follow you'll see where working with small business or working with non-profits to overcome some of their extra needs can work well. And leveraging the existing infrastructure and resources makes your money go farther and helps you meet that 20 percent. The existing programs will handle a lot of the intake, the measurement and verification that things got put in.
Where there are no existing programs, the scope of what you do is depending on the funding you've got available. If there's not many dollars you can't do a big program. Typically simple, prescriptive rebate programs will work well. They've got lower costs. Helps you get under the administrative percentage hurdle.
And you can get larger benefits for the dollars spent. Another program that - methodology that's used quite often in these situations is an RFP or a grant format where you offer funding and let people bring you projects to evaluate for it. Good example of a program that works to fill a niche need is the Renew Boston energy retrofit for small business. They - the goals - they wanted to target the very small businesses, less than 20 kW, job creation in Boston, and to minimize administrative costs so that targeted participants get the most benefit.
It - they did it with the seamless integration with the existing utility efficiency programs that gave them all the benefit of the existing relationships with trade allies for job creation and a good track record of achieving program goals. The enhance - what was done was to offer to pick up for these very small customers the 30 percent of the program cost that the utility program did not cover so that the customer is getting the service, the direct install portions of the program - of the utility programs free.
There's no investment. It is done on a targeted neighborhood basis. They go in and to get maximum saturation at the lowest cost. It's been going on for a couple of months and to date they've got out of the participants they are targeting to get. They are using the utility contractors. The utility contractor is handling all the administration. All the reporting for the - that's necessary for the ARRA funds.
Basically all Boston is having to do is supply the extra money. Very effective for them. Another example is the city of Baltimore with their community energy savers grants program. And the project can either be education, neighborhood education type of a program or an energy efficiency improvement to their facilities. Their funding covers things not done under the utility program and their program interns train - were trained by the BGE programs. So maximizing what the utility program could do to help minimize the administrative costs.
This is it. Catul Kiti: Thank you, Courtney. I think we've come to the end of our presentation. Cortney: Okay. So we can take questions now from the audience. If anyone has a question you can raise your hand using the hand- raising feature in the attendee list and we will call on you and unmute you if you have a question. Catul, it also looks like a few people typed questions into the question box.
Catul Kiti: Okay. Cortney: Would you like me to read those outloud or? Catul Kiti: Sure. Cortney: We can also unmute the attendees if they still have the questions. We have our first question was from Alex. And Alex I will actually. I can unmute you if you'd like and you can ask it verbally over the phone. So Alex, are you still there? So the question from Alex is, "Which strategy would save more overall energies? Energy efficiency rebate programs or energy audits and retrofits for state-owned buildings?
But typically on the residential side we see that lighting has traditionally constituted between 60 and 80 percent of all savings from residential programs. House Bill enables the Florida Energy and Climate Commission FECC to develop and manage guidelines, consistent with federal regulations, designating eligible appliances, rebate amounts and the process for issuing rebates.
The rebate program will help Floridians buy appliances at discount rates, lower utility costs, and benefit Florida businesses by stimulating sales of energy-efficient appliances. Posted: December 1, Home Subscribe Blog Directory Blogs. What is the purpose of this program? This program was funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and is designed to stimulate the economy by encouraging consumers to purchase new appliances. Purchasing new appliances will help create jobs for appliance manufacturers and retail stores.
The program also encourages consumers to save energy, and to lower their monthly bills through the use of a more efficient appliance. A small portion will be used administer the program and the remaining will be used to provide consumer rebates on purchases of ENERGY STAR appliances and for incentives to recycle old appliances.
Tax credits for residential energy efficiency and those for builders of energy efficient homes were extended retroactively, through December 31, Tax deductions for energy efficient commercial buildings allowed under Section D of the Internal Revenue Code were made permanent under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of The tax credits for residential renewable energy products are now available through December 31, The plan will likely create a new program where private contractors conduct home energy audits, buy the necessary gear and install it, according to a staffer on the Senate Energy Committee and Nadel at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
Big-ticket items like air conditioners, heating systems, washing machines, refrigerators, windows and insulation would likely be covered, Nadel said. So far, there is no income restriction on who is eligible. It's not clear how the home efficiency plan would be administered - the government may issue rebates to consumers directly, homeowners might get a tax credit, or the program could be run via state agencies.
If consumers have to spend a lot of money up front to get the credit, it could throw a wrench in the works, David Kreutzer, an energy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, told CNN. To keep consumers from having to spend thousands of dollars before getting reimbursed, Nadel said, one idea is to have contractors or big box retailers pay part of the cost up front.
Nadel noted that as a way to guard against fraud, contractors would have to be certified to participate.
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