Summary:
Orlando was one of ten cities chosen as part of the City Energy Project (CEP). The CEP is a multi-year effort to improve commercial energy efficiency performance in commercial buildings across the United States through the creation of various policies, financial tools, and educational opportunities. The other nine cities participating are Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Salt Lake City.
The CEP is being managed by the Institute of Market Transformation and the National Resources Defense Council, with financial support of Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Dorris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation.
This MOU commits Orlando to explore a variety of energy efficiency policies, including:
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performing energy upgrades to our own buildings,
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making energy consumption data more transparent in the marketplace,
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developing financial tools, such as Property Assessed Clean Energy (i.e. PACE), to better facilitate commercial investments in cost-effective energy efficiency improvements,
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analyzing our efforts to follow existing state energy code, and
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creating opportunities for education to challenge the community to improve cost-effective energy efficiency investments.
The MOU does not commit us to enacting specific policies, but commits us to making sincere attempts at developing the policies. As part of CEP, the City will be provided a full-time staff person for up to three years that will be paid by the Institute of Market Transportation (described in the companion City Energy Project Adviser MOU agenda item).
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