| Resource | Source and Description | Audience | Topic | Type | Additional Tags | File |
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| A Guide to Community Solar: Utility, Private, and Non-Profit Project Development |
Through practical tools, tips and case studies, this guide addresses issues common to community solar projects in order to help communities plan successful projects. |
Report Guide or Toolkit |
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| Better Buildings Financing Navigator |
The Better Buildings Financing Navigator includes financing primers, factsheets, overviews and guides to area-specific policies and programs. |
Guide or Toolkit |
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| Better Rentals, Better Cities |
Smart policies to improve your city's rental housing energy performance |
Guide or Toolkit |
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| 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. |
Tool or Calculator |
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| 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. |
Guide or Toolkit |
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| Community Solar Business Case Tool |
The Community Solar Business Case Tool provides a flexible financial model that projects the costs and benefits to the system developer and subscriber of a single community solar project. |
Tool or Calculator |
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| Cost of Renewable Energy Spreadsheet Tool (CREST) |
CREST models are designed for use by state policy makers, regulators, utilities, beginning developers or investors, and other stakeholders to assess project economics of solar, wind, geothermal, anaerobic digestion and fuel cell technologies. |
Tool or Calculator |
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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. |
Service |
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| Energy Efficiency—Jobs and Investments |
Factsheet describing the economic benefits of energy efficiency investments and number of jobs created |
Factsheet |
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| Energy Savings Potential State Fact Sheets |
These factsheets present the potential for economic, energy and utility bill savings for each state, as well as a list of the top ten energy savings home improvements. |
Factsheet Map |
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| Executive Energy Leadership Academy |
The Executive Energy Leadership Academy provides industry and community leaders an opportunity to learn about advanced energy technologies to guide their organizations in energy-related decisions and planning. |
General |
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| Housing Matters: Mapping Energy Burden |
This blog post by NC Housing Coalition explains the problem of energy burden in NC and includes snapshots of state energy burden numbers and maps of the counties most affected. |
Report Map |
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| Jobs and Economic Development Impact Models (JEDI) |
The Jobs and Economic Development Impact (JEDI) models are user-friendly screening tools that estimate the economic impacts of constructing and operating power plants, fuel production facilities, and other projects. |
Tool or Calculator |
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| Low-Income Energy Affordability Data (LEAD) Tool |
Created as a part of Better Building’s Clean Energy for Low Income Communities Accelerator (CELICA), this tool provides data for low- and moderate-income community energy expenditures across all 50 states, census divisions and tract levels and may be utilized in determining energy policy and program planning. |
Tool or Calculator |
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| Model Wind Ordinance for Wind Energy Facilities in North Carolina |
The Model Wind Ordinance for Wind Energy Facilities in North Carolina is intended to provide assistance to communities designing a local wind ordinance. Each community is encouraged to modify the model ordinance to meet their needs. |
Policy or Regulation |
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| Multifamily Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Barriers and Opportunities for Deep Energy Savings |
This product of the Regional Energy Efficiency Organizations (REEO) was developed to inform national stakeholders about strategies used to achieve deep energy savings in the multifamily housing sector through energy efficiency upgrades. |
Report |
Download (1.48 MB) |
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| One in Three U.S. Households Faces A Challenge in Meeting Energy Needs |
This 2018 article from the EIA describes energy burden and energy insecurity in the U.S. |
Report |
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| Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) and Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) |
An overview of the property assessed clean energy (PACE) model, an innovative mechanism for financing energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements on private property |
General |
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| Small Community Wind Guidebook |
A guide for communities, nonprofits, businesses, farms, municipal utilities and electric cooperatives to decide whether small community wind projects are right for them |
Guide or Toolkit |
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| Solar Cost-Benefit Studies |
A collection of state-by-state and national studies on the value of solar and renewable energy technologies |
Report |
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| SolSmart National Designation Program |
The SolSmart solar program is a national designation program, funded by the Department of Energy, to recognize communities removing barriers and promoting solar by making it easier and more affordable to install systems. |
Guide or Toolkit Service |
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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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| System Advisor Model |
The System Advisor Model (SAM) is a techno-economic model designed to facilitate decision making for people involved in the renewable energy industry. |
Tool or Calculator |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Why Wind Power for North Carolina? |
An outline of the policy and public opinion landscapes surrounding wind power in North Carolina, as well as facts about the state's wind capacity and the economic potential of the energy source |
Factsheet |
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| Wind Energy in North Carolina |
Find wind data and information in North Carolina, including maps, capacity, ordinances, and more. |
Map General |
