Full Title: Community Energy Resource Guide
Author(s): Kaitlyn Bunker, Stephen Doig, Erik Fowler, James Mandel, and Christa Owens Michelet
Publisher(s): Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
Publication Date: December 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):
Communities are at the forefront of the energy transition: citizens are increasingly asking their cities to develop and act on ambitious plans, and community leaders are seeing the social, political, and economic benefits of doing so. Even so, no standard roadmap or methodology exists to help communities transform their energy use. The purpose of this resource guide is to be that roadmap, and provide that methodology.
This guide is meant to help those U.S. communities with a desire to create a comprehensive energy action plan that will accelerate the use of cost effective renewable energy resources and energy efficiency while significantly reducing climate impacts and fossil fuel-related emissions. Such a plan can enhance resiliency, reduce fuel-import risk, provide primary-fuel cost hedging, improve environmental performance and public health, and increase local investment and job opportunities. These plans can be effective in the domains of building efficiency, transportation and land use, and electricity and energy supply.