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Community energy leadership series

As part of the Midwest Efficiency Cities project, we presented four webinars and a workshop designed for community leaders who want to incorporate clean energy strategies and opportunities into their sustainable community planning efforts.

The Midwest Efficiency Cities project recognized that cities are better positioned to achieve accelerated energy efficiency goals than other levels of government because of their population density, their independent regulation of land and buildings, the speed with which they deliver services, the high visibility of local leadership, and their tendency to be more progressive than higher levels of government.

Energy Center resources and other links

• Energy Independent Communities Tool
  Published: 2011. This tool is designed to assist a community in assessing its current energy usage and developing a plan to have renewable energy account for 25% of its projected energy consumption by 2025 ...
• Achieving 25x'25 Goals for Energy Independent Communities: Results from the 2009 Pilot Program
  Published: 2010. Ten Wisconsin communities have completed plans for meeting 25 percent of their energy usage from renewable sources by 2025 ...
• Green jobs: connecting supply and demand
  Published: 2010. In this webinar, Marge Anderson presents the Energy Center's analysis of training and workforce development in the Midwest and shares information to help program planners prepare for the boom—and the workforce capacity challenges—ahead ...
• Where's the Waste? An Introduction to Auditing Community Energy Use
  Published: 2010. This webinar presents some best practices for discovering the biggest opportunities to save energy in your community ...
• Community Energy Leadership Series
  Published: 2010. This series presents four webinars designed for community leaders who want to incorporate clean energy strategies and opportunities into their sustainable community planning efforts ...
• Assessing Your Impact: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Community Energy Initiatives
  Published: 2010. Watch this webinar to learn how to evaluate and measure the success and effectiveness of community energy initiatives ...
• Energy Efficiency Guidebook for Public Power Communities
  Published: 2009. This web-based resource serves as a roadmap for energy efficiency program planning and provides step-by-step recommendations for program design, implementation, tracking and evaluation.
• Least-Cost Paths to Energy Independence at a Midwestern University
  Published: 2008. This paper identifies and analyzes several approaches and combinations of technologies to determine the best path for achieving energy independence at a Midwestern college ...
• Midwest Efficiency Cities
  Published: 2008. This regional project demonstrated the unique and essential role of cities in achieving significant improvements in energy efficiency ...
• Achieving Energy Independence at UW River Falls
  Published: 2008. This Energy Center newsletter article highlights an analysis that points the way to reducing UW River Falls' dependence on fossil fuels ...
• Integrated Energy Communities: Making a Plan
  Published: 2007. At a forum at Northland College, Ingrid Kelley discussed the idea of integrated energy communities ...
• Organizational Background and Integrated Energy Communities
  Published: 2007. At a forum at Northland College, Joe Kramer discussed the idea of integrated energy communities ...