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Resource Source and Description Audience Topic Type Additional Tags File
Tools to Build Local Power - Clean Energy

Browse a list of the proven resolutions, actions, and rules cities can adopt to promote local economic development from clean energy.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Factsheet
The Carbon-Free City Handbook

The Carbon-Free City Handbook is designed to help city staff implement climate policies and actions that resolutely place their communities on an aggressive path toward sustainable, low-carbon economies.

Rocky Mountain Institute
Guide or Toolkit
State Community Power Score Map

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance's Community Power Score map assigns points to each state based on its policy environment for supporting local energy action.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Report
Policy or Regulation
Map
NC Project Green

NC Project Green serves as a tool to share resources for NC agencies and local governments including case studies, Cool Cities resolutions and toolkits, U.S. Mayor's Climate Action Handbook, webinars, meetings, legislation and more.

NC Department of Environmental Quality
Report
Policy or Regulation
Guide or Toolkit
Service
NC DEQ Conservation Resources

A collection of energy efficiency and conservation fact sheets and assessment guides for business, industry and public facilities, including information on North Carolina's Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC) financing programs

NC Department of Environmental Quality
Factsheet
Guide or Toolkit
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Resources for Rural K-12 School Energy Managers and Educators

This 8-page guide offers tips for implementing energy efficiency measures in K-12 school districts and includes numerous case studies and resources for benchmarking, implementation, financing and behavior change programs.

U.S. Department of Energy, Better Buildings
Factsheet
Guide or Toolkit
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DEQ Energy, Water, and Waste Reduction Assistance

No-cost, non-regulatory, on-site assessments are available from the NC Department of Environmental Quality for North Carolina businesses and public facilities.

NC Department of Environmental Quality
Service
Community Power Interactive Toolkit

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance's Interactive Community Power Toolkit provides examples and case studies of actions that local governments, communities and electric providers can take to expand access to local clean energy.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Guide or Toolkit
Co-Digestion Economic Analysis Tool

The Co-EAT tool is intended to provide an initial economic feasibility assessment for co-diegestion of organic wastes, to compare the relative merits of three uses of biogas and provide a clear cost comparison of the economic implications of co-digestion.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Tool or Calculator
Better Rentals, Better Cities

Smart policies to improve your city's rental housing energy performance

Rocky Mountain Institute
Guide or Toolkit
Better Buildings Financing Navigator

The Better Buildings Financing Navigator includes financing primers, factsheets, overviews and guides to area-specific policies and programs.

U.S. Department of Energy; Better Buildings Initiative
Guide or Toolkit
ACEEE's Fourth National Review of Exemplary Energy Efficiency Programs

ACEEE's review of 53 selected energy efficiency models worthy of emulation in 14 categories includes a two-page profile of each program.

American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
Report