Municipalities and their partners joined the Energy Efficiency Alliance for a webinar that explains how energy assessments work and how they can lower municipalities’ energy bills during historic cost surges.

Energy efficiency measures offer permanent utility bill reductions—but only if municipalities can accurately identify and prioritize energy-saving opportunities in the first place. Watch to learn how municipalities have risen to meet these challenges in the past and how state funding can help. We’ll learn how municipalities utilized funding opportunities like the MORE (Municipal Opportunities for Retrofits and Energy Efficiency) grant program administered by the PA Department of Environmental Protection to establish baseline energy usage, and how this assessment provided actionable insights on creating future savings.

Who should watch?

• Municipal staff
• Municipal program designers and managers
• Policymakers
• Organizations that work with municipal governments

What did we cover?

We heard from Oakmont Borough, Newport Borough, Braddock Borough, and building performance data science experts who completed MORE-funded energy assessments at AUROS Group.

Specifically, we’ll learn more about:

• How energy assessments actually work and why they’re essential to the energy efficiency project planning process
• Why continued state and federal funding for energy efficiency at the local level is more valuable than ever and how program developers can learn from municipalities’ experience with the MORE program to plan
• Measures that municipalities have found are enormous savings opportunities and how they used these insights to better plan for the future
• Funding opportunities that are still available to help defray the cost of energy assessments and project implementation