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Under funding provided by the U.S. Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission, the NECSC is currently developing two reference documents on energy-efficient community design and development. These are the:
- Reference Guide for Private Development Professionals – The first guide is being written specifically for private developers and builders. The guide will include commercially viable, integrated energy technology and community design options for high-efficiency, low-impact community development. The guide will contain specific recommendations for energy technology applications and energy-efficient development strategies for residential, commercial and institutional structures and for supporting municipal infrastructure for planned communities;
- Reference Guide for Financing Institutions & Public Agencies – The second guide is written for development and finance entities, State agencies, and local governments and will contain strategies to assist them in conditioning the marketplace to support energy-efficient community development. Specifically, the guide will contain innovative public policy, incentive & market mechanisms to accelerate investment in and use of advanced energy technologies and enabling community design options in development projects.
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The NECSC is developing an outreach plan for the dissemination of these resource guides to these targeted audiences and for follow-up activities that will encourage their use.
As funding becomes available, the NECSC plans to produce additional resources, including:
- A Reference Guide to Sustainable Community Energy Best Practices – fashioned after the acclaimed U.S. Federal Energy Management Program guide;
- A Guide to Sustainable Community Energy Baseline Assessments and Benchmarking;
- An Online Information Clearinghouse – with links to the leading sustainable community energy resource organizations worldwide;
- Indicators and Metrics – suggested standards for the design of energy-efficient, environmentally benign buildings, transportation and environmental systems and other community infrastructure;
- Managers Guide to Sustainable Community Energy Technologies – designed to introduce non-technical audiences to advanced, energy-efficient technologies for infrastructure and building facilities, industrial manufacturing processes, and commercial, institutional and residential operations.