Well-Designed Equitable Home Energy Upgrades: Best Practices and Strategies

Well-Designed Equitable Home Energy Upgrades: Best Practices and Strategies

Date: August 20, 2024 1 PM EST | Register Here

Description: Using R2E2’s Playbook – which was created to help local energy upgrade program administrators, government officials, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders design best-practice, high-impact, equitable energy upgrade programs serving low- and moderate-income housing – this workshop will explore specific best practices for program design.  

New and experienced single and multi-family efficiency programs should find this workshop useful for learning best practices and examples from the field. We will have some program managers from featured case studies facilitating breakout groups so participants can ask practical questions about real programs and get answers from the experts themselves. 

Target Audience: Community-based organizations (CBOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Non-profit Organizations, small businesses, local governments, state governments, Tribes

Workshop Agenda: 1:00-3:00 – Introduction, audience polls, presentation, Q&A, and a short break 3:00-4:00 – Interactive small group time, audience polls, wrap up, and next steps  

1-3 p.m. ET/Presentation and Q&A: During the first part of the workshop, we will introduce equitable efficiency program guidelines and strategies, share best practices and program examples, and highlight existing resources on low-to-moderate-income energy upgrade programs. We will break at 3 and participants that do not wish to participate in the interactive session that follows may drop off. 

 3-4 p.m. ET/Interactive Small Group Time: The second section of the workshop will be an interactive session where you will be placed into smaller groups to dig deeper into specific case studies and their implementation of best practices. You will participate in discussion, ask questions, share your experiences and network with other workshop attendees. We encourage you to come to this with camera on and make connections! 

Speakers

Diana Morales 

Diana Morales leads research on equitable energy efficiency policies and programs. She also provides technical assistance to local governments and community-based organizations seeking to advance energy efficiency in their cities. Diana joined ACEEE in 2021. Before joining ACEEE, Diana worked at the U.S. Green Building Council. Diana holds a master of sustainability with a focus on urban and energy systems from Chatham University.

Ian Becker

Ian Becker serves on the Residential Retrofits for Energy Equity (R2E2) team, where he conducts research and manages projects, provides technical assistance related to federal funding opportunities available to states and localities, and otherwise helps local governments and private sector stakeholders develop programs to improve the energy efficiency of affordable housing. He joined ACEEE in 2023. Ian holds a master of science in community and regional planning from The University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor of arts in English literature from McGill University.

Jasmine Mah

Jasmine is a member of ACEEE's behavior, health, and human dimensions research team. She studies policies, programs, and funding sources that simultaneously improve human health and energy efficiency. She also cooperates with researchers across different programs, including the utilities, buildings, state policy, and local policy teams. She has a Master of Science in environment and development from the University of Leeds, and a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts from UC Davis.