247131 Resource 233684 212598 212598 1260901483438 1260901483438 Controlled Regional Approach to Climate and Energy Planning

Significant economies of scale can be achieved by collaborating at the regional level on climate and energy planning

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> <div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0.5em; "> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; ">A new report by Urban Sustainability Associates describes an approach to building capacity for regional collaboration on municipal energy efficiency and climate action. This approach is informed by the pioneering design and implementation work of the Center for Neighborhood Technology (<a href="http://www.cnt.org/" style="color: #ce683e; text-decoration: none; ">www.cnt.org</a>) and its affiliate CNT-Energy (<a href="http://www.cntenergy.org/" style="color: #ce683e; text-decoration: none; ">http://www.cntenergy.org/</a>) in the Chicago and northern Illinois region, and by the national consultancies of CNT-E and its network of partners.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; ">The base platform for regional collaboration is a regional Data Center that integrates multiple sources of energy usage data (e.g. utilities at the address level; transportation data) for easy baseline analysis and forecasting. Connected to this information platform is a set of regional services that bring national-class energy efficiency planning, implementation, and creative financing capacity to municipalities that would otherwise not have the resources to develop or purchase such capacity.</p> </div></span> 10 application/xml false project:community energy systems sector:urban sustainability Report on how to build a regional infrastructure that supports collaborative planning and implementation of climate action and energy efficiency strategies. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.33 Safari/532.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 johncleveland 75.192.126.80 false true false false true 233684 blog blogsite/NupolisUSA/web