Solutions for Energy Efficiency among Small Businesses in Low-Income Communities Award Number: DE-EE0007560 CX(s) Applied: A9, A11, B5.1 Building Technologies Office Date: 6/23/2016 Location(s): NJ Office(s): Golden Field Office
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March 4, 2016
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Solutions for Energy Efficiency among Small Businesses in Low-Income Communities
Award Number: DE-EE0007560
CX(s) Applied: A9, A11, B5.1
Building Technologies Office
Date: 6/23/2016
Location(s): NJ
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Lime Energy to implement and demonstrate a performance-based, community-based, scalable, and replicable small business energy-efficiency retrofit approach; and ensure that model overcomes the unique barriers that exist in urban, low-income areas, and reaches small businesses which are most challenging to penetrate. This retrofit approach is an enhanced version of what the utility demand side management industry refers to as Small Business Direct Install (SBDI). SBDI is an integrated, turnkey delivery model aimed at mass customer acquisition and scaled delivery of fundamental, repeatable energy efficiency measures in small commercial facilities.
Activities associated with the proposed project would include design, marketing and outreach, energy auditing, sales and enrollment, equipment procurement, installation of retrofits, and data analysis and reporting. Project management, data analysis and reporting would be completed from Lime Energy’s offices in Newark NJ. Marketing and outreach, energy auditing, sales and enrollment, and equipment procurement would be orchestrated from Lime Energy field offices and community meeting facilities in Atlanta, GA, Houston, TX, and Orlando, FL.