This ACEEE policy brief from November 2020 estimates the volume of residential and commercial energy efficiency financing from five programmatic sources. Energy-efficiency financing programs typically aim to increase the scale of investment in energy efficiency, as grants, rebates, and other incentives alone will not be enough to reach efficiency goals and targets, the authors. Due to the decentralized nature of energy efficiency financing programs and the dearth of publicly available data, there has been a lack of sufficient information on the volume of recent annual lending to energy efficiency from programmatic sources. This brief aims to fill this knowledge gap and provide a baseline for future research.
Key words: automated meter reading (AMR), energy management, lighting systems/controls, HVAC, protocols/standards, research & development, smart grid, large building controls/automation