B1:11 Efficiency of scale
Create group packages for efficiency upgrades within a target neighborhood or with a target audience.
Group packages
REALIZE—part of RMI’s Residential Energy+ initiative—aims to bring the the speedy, industrialized, and scalable process for Net Zero Carbon residential energy retrofits developed in the Energiesprong program in the Netherlands (and adopted in the UK and several other European countries) to the US. They are currently working on projects in Massachusetts, in California and in New York State.
Target Neighborhoods
The ACEEE did a market study of four core counties within the Cincinnati region (with the University of Cincinnati Economics Center and the Greater Cincinnati Energy Alliance) to look at questions of neighborhood targeting using analysis of ZIP code level data.