| Resource | Source and Description | Audience | Topic | Type | Additional Tags | File |
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| What is an Energy Burden? |
Learn about the physical, economic and health impacts of high energy burdens. RETI also explores the link between high energy burdens and renewables in North Carolina. |
General |
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| Western NC Energy Cost-Share Assistance Program (Energy CAP) |
Energy CAP provides opportunities for renewable energy production and improved energy efficiency for WNC farms and small businesses through free grant application assistance, site assessments, consultations and energy audits. |
Service |
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| Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) |
Department of Energy program designed to help reduce energy costs for low-income households by funding local weatherization agencies to conduct energy audits and provide no-cost weatherization services. |
Service |
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| W.A.M.Y. Community Action, Inc. - Weatherization Assistance Program |
W.A.M.Y. is a community action organization administering heating appliance repair (HARRP), emergency bill assistance (LIHEAP), the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) and more to low-income households in Watauga, Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties of North Carolina. |
Service |
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| 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. |
Factsheet |
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| 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. |
Guide or Toolkit |
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| The 2019 Housing Need in Watauga County |
A 2019 factsheet describing housing need and energy burden in Watauga County |
Report Policy or Regulation |
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| 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. |
Report Policy or Regulation Map |
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| State and Local Solution Center |
Explore resources that enable strategic investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies through the use of innovative practices across the United States by a wide range of stakeholders, in partnership with state and local organizations and community-based nonprofits. |
Guide or Toolkit |
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| Southeast Multifamily Market Assessment |
The Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA) has prepared this assessment of the Southeast’s multifamily sector to better understand the current stock of multifamily units, regional and state multifamily construction trends, utility multifamily energy efficiency programs, and state and local policies and programs focused on the multifamily sector. |
Report |
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Energy Efficiency & Conservation News
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Events
Sustainable Energy Speaker Series
Jan 3, 2024
Sustainable Energy Speaker Series
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