Boosting Energy Efficiency and Economic Development Through Chambers of Commerce Award Number: DE-EE0007557 CX(s) Applied: A9, A11 Building Technologies Program Date: 7/26/2016 Location(s): DC Office(s): Golden Field Office
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
August 15, 2016
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Boosting Energy Efficiency and Economic Development Through Chambers of Commerce
Award Number: DE-EE0007557
CX(s) Applied: A9, A11
Building Technologies Office
Date: 7/26/2016
Location(s): DC
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the Institute for Market Transformation to utilize a business-to-business (B2B) model to work with small business landlords and tenants to help drive the uptake of energy assessments, implementation of energy conservation measures, green leasing, and energy efficient tenant spaces in three markets (Cleveland, Ohio; Traverse City, Michigan; and Carrboro-Chapel Hill, North Carolina). This DOE project is fundamentally about the B2B model itself. While DOE does expect to see a certain level of energy savings from the installation of energy conservation measures (ECMs) that may follow from project activities, no project funding is going toward the installation of ECMs and the DOE has no control or discretion over which ECMs may be selected for installation or which business owners or commercial facilities may choose to install those ECMs. As such, DOE’s NEPA review is limited to the scope of the DOE funded project which involves the B2B model effects in helping to address the following issues regarding information, technical, transaction, and incentive barriers associated with: education and outreach, energy assessments and lease reviews, financing and retrofitting, lease enhancements, and impact measurement and scaling.