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Dept. of Energy

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How can you get the attention of busy

mayors and city managers to introduce

them to Rebuild America? Try bicycling

into town with 18,000 others on a crossstate ride that is the largest of its kind in

the world.

That’s what Ron Horstman,

coordinator of the Sioux Center, Iowa,

partnership, did for a week in July, when

he wore a “Team Rebuild” jersey in the

25th Des Moines Register’s Annual Great

Bicycle Ride Across Iowa®, known as

RAGBRAI®.

“When we got to host towns, I met

with the mayor or city manager to

discuss Rebuild America and present

them with a Team Rebuild jersey,”

Horstman said. He had ridden

RAGBRAI before, so “this was a perfect

opportunity.”

The bike ride, begun by two Register

columnists in 1973, covered 464 miles

this year. From Missouri Valley at the

start of the ride to Fort Madison at the

finish, the route climbed over two and a

half miles.

Each evening, a community would

host the riders from around the world, 

providing them with sleeping

accommodations, entertainment, and all

types of delicious food. Horstman talked

with city officials in all six communities,

and met with three of them.

“The neatest thing was when one city

manager met me on his HarleyDavidson, because it was the only

motorized vehicle that could get around

in the crowded community,” Horstman

said. “I gave them Rebuild America

information, including a brochure with

answers to the most frequently asked

questions about the program.”

Monica Stone, executive director of

the Iowa Department of Natural

Resources’ (DNR) Energy Bureau,

joined Horstman for part of the ride. 

“We think Rebuild America fits in 

because RAGBRAI is a great

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Fall 1997 Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy 

Changing a culture isn’t easy, but that is exactly

what Bob Housh is out to do. As Project Director of

EnergyWorks in Kansas City, Missouri, Housh

intends to generate enough interest in energy

efficiency to sustain his program after a five-year grant

from DOE ends.

He freely acknowledges this is a tough sell in a

metropolitan area with the world record for paved

highway miles yet very little mass-transit. But he

points out the area’s huge market potential for energy

efficiency services: 104 municipalities, 250 non-profit

organizations, and numerous hospitals, universities,

and schools.

EnergyWorks was founded two years ago by the

Metropolitan Energy Center (MEC) to deliver energy

efficiency services to community organizations and

public agencies. “Many groups look at energy bills as

something they have to pay, not manage,” Housh

says. “Our goal was to show them how to manage

energy and help them divert their resources to what

they were chartered to do in the first place.”

Housh came to the MEC in 1985 to start a

precursor to the EnergyWorks program. He had

specialized in community studies at Baker University

in Kansas, earning a degree in sociology, and worked

with various community service agencies after

graduating. “I got hooked on energy and how it

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Energy Bills Earth Day 

in Atlanta Partnerships

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Atlanta &

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Inside This Issue

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“Team Rebuild” Rides

“EnergyWorks” Across Iowa By Bicycle

For Bob Housh

Horstman (right) meets Steve Green, water

utility manager for 13 Iowa communities.
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Partner Update is the quarterly newsletter from Rebuild America, a program of the Office of

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the

U.S. Department of Energy.

Rebuild America projects improve the energy

efficiency of buildings to save money, create jobs, promote growth and protect the environment through cooperative partnerships with America’s communities.

To submit an article to Partner Update, contact Lani MacRae, Editor, 

at the U.S. Department of Energy, Mail Stop EE-421, 1000 Independence 

Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20585; or e-mail lani.macrae@hq.doe.gov.

Housh Shows That

“EnergyWorks”

Continued from page 1

View From D.C.

by Lani MacRae

Have you begun making plans for the

Rebuild America 1998 National Conference? 

We have, and next year’s conference promises

to be the best ever. From March 10-12, 1998,

the Rebuild America community will gather in

San Antonio, Texas, to share success stories, learn

about new ideas, and get to know more than

130 partners from throughout the country.

The two and one-half day conference will be

packed with opportunities to learn things you

can put to work immediately in your

partnership. 

We will have:

• sessions devoted to topics like project design,

implementation, financing, and promotion;

• discussion roundtables;

• showcases of successful partners;

• plenty of opportunities for networking; and

• renowned speakers from the worlds of energy,

environment, government, and the private

sector.

Registration and agenda information will be

posted on the Rebuild America website

(www.eren.doe.gov/buildings/rebuild) in

December, where you can register online.

Printed registration packets and information will

automatically be mailed to every partnership at

the start of the new year.

We welcome your input and ideas to make

this conference a rousing success. Please let us

know who we should be inviting to the

conference. Who are your local partners? What

private sector businesses, government agencies,

and community groups are you working with?

They are all welcome to attend.

You can contact Rebecca Penovich of D&R

International at (301) 588-9384, or e-mail her at

rpenovich@aol.com. 

Thanks, and see you in San Antonio.

could help the community when I ran a neighborhood weatherization program for

Della C. Lamb Community Services,” Housh said.

“Energy efficiency is a tool to help improve communities and make them

sustainable,” Housh explains. The goal of EnergyWorks is to achieve a 25% savings

in energy use in 56 million square feet of non-profit and local government building

space. Housh estimates $30 million will be invested in retrofit projects in the

community over the five-year program.

Housh is energetic when he describes what his EnergyWorks staff of three has

accomplished so far. “We’ve already identified over $2.5 million in annual savings

in about 6.5 million square feet of space,” he said. In Jackson County, Missouri, for

example, Housh expects retrofits to begin this Fall. And the City of Kansas City

recently signed on as a partner.

In addition to EnergyWorks, Housh is now serving as acting executive director

of the MEC. Peter Dreyfuss, who founded the MEC, has come to the U.S.

Department of Energy to work with the Office of Energy Efficiency and

Renewable Energy, where Rebuild America is based.

Serving the Community

Working with non-profits presents different challenges than local governments,

Housh said, noting that “their prime motivator is not simply to cut energy costs.”

EnergyWorks retrofitted the headquarters of the local United Way, a renovated

turn-of-the-century building being used as an example of what is possible for other

United Way member agencies.

A key part of the retrofit process for non-profits, financing, is arranged through a

$750,000 revolving loan fund set up by Hallmark Foundation, United Way and

Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Housh is also exploring ways to

leverage that fund with the primary source of funding for government projects, the

Missouri Environmental Improvement & Energy Resources Authority.

The MEC itself is housed in a super-efficient renovated house, which originally

was an example and source of information on energy efficiency. “We show [clients]

that by improving their equipment they can solve some building problem like

maintenance and help manage their budgets at the same time.”

When he’s not working, Housh relaxes in a small rural

community north of Kansas City. His two kids help take care 

of their part-Arabian horse, Big Boy. “I’m very involved, with

school activities, coaching sports, Cubmaster,” Housh says. 

“My priority in my life is my family.”

Bob Housh (right) is congratulated by Mark Ginsberg, the deputy assistant secretary 

for building technologies at DOE, at the 1996 Rebuild America Fall Forum.
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. Energy professionals are taking a new look at the possibilities

chillers present to save money and improve buildings as part of

comprehensive energy-efficiency building retrofits.

In addition to the traditional systems explored for retrofits —

such as lighting, ventilation and control systems — the cooling

system, comprised of the chiller, cooling towers, fans and pumps,

is a prime candidate for inclusion. It typically uses 15% of the

energy consumed in a building, with chillers responsible for 60%

of that.

Most chillers now in place use chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as

the working fluid to cool the air or water flowing through them.

But in an effort to halt depletion of the ozone layer and prevent

global warming, Congress mandated the phaseout of CFCs as

part of the Clean Air Act of 1990. Production ceased on January

1, 1996.

This has created a boom of interest in chiller retrofits. In part

that is because it is becoming harder to obtain replacement CFC

refrigerants, which are becoming more expensive as they get

increasingly scarce. In addition, the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency has laid down tough rules governing the

handling, replacement and disposal of CFCs, including strict

requirements for record-keeping. As a result, facility managers

have seen a steady rise in the costs to maintain their CFC-based

chillers.

The most common replacements for CFCs are

hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and hydrofluorocarbons

(HFCs). But also as part of the Clean Air Act, a phaseout of

HCFCs will begin in 2003.

Money-Saving Alternatives

To help out the facility managers, engineers and auditors 

who have to deal with this issue, Dale Sartor, of DOE’s 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, created Cool 

Sense, a nationwide network to promote integrated chiller

retrofits. It serves as a clearinghouse for technical, design and

financing information.

Since the chiller is a very expensive piece of equipment, it

makes financial and managerial sense to look at the CFC

phaseout as an opportunity to do a wide range of energy

efficiency upgrades at the same time. Other energy efficiency

measures (EEMs) not only reduce energy use and cooling loads

on buildings, but they generally have lower costs and shorter payback periods and help to finance more expensive chiller work.

The benefits of conducting integrated chiller retrofits include:

• new chillers, which use 0.6 kilowatts/ton or less at full loads,

are at least 30% more efficient than older ones, which used 0.9

kilowatts/ton;

• an appropriately sized chiller, often much smaller, since all

the EEMs taken together will reduce the building’s cooling

needs, can add to the energy savings; and

• higher building value to owners and occupants, thanks to

increased comfort, more efficient operation and lower energy

bills.

Robert Rowan, assistant VP of Facilities Management at the

University of Maryland at Baltimore, recently oversaw the

change out of three aging 1,200 ton chillers, due to the CFC

phaseout and an overall program of energy efficient upgrades.

“[Energy efficiency] has to be an integrated process,” he said,

“because capacity issues are driven by the size of equipment and

its efficiency. It’s an all-inclusive methodology.”

Lisa Gartland is the director of the Cool Sense program at DOE’s

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She can be reached at (510)

486-7334, or e-mail lmgartland@lbl.gov.

How Harmful Are Refrigerants?

This table shows the environmental impacts of 

common refrigerants, including their Ozone Depletion 

Potential and Global Warming Potential. HFCs are harmless to

the ozone layer because they don’t include highly reactive

chlorine. Meanwhile, CFC-12 is a prime contributor to global

warming, as it is 7,100 times more effective at trapping heat in

the upper atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

Learn more about integrated chiller retrofits by exploring

web sites for EPA (www.epa.gov/ozone) and Cool Sense

(eande.lbl.gov/cbs/ateam/COOLSENSE/coolsense.html).

Cool Off Energy Bills 

With Chiller Retrofits By Lisa Gartland, Ph.D.

CFC-12

HCFC-22

HCFC-123

HFC-134a

ODP

(CFC-12=1)

1

0.05

0.02

0

GWP

(CO2=1)

7,100

1,600

90

1,200

Refrigerant
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Atlanta Proclaims Earth

Day With Energy Savings

Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell

celebrated Earth Day this year by

delivering a keynote address at the

CNN Center, visiting the City Zoo,

and issuing an Earth Day

proclamation.

This year’s proclamation (right) was

special because it recognized the city’s

Rebuild America partnership, and the

role that energy savings play in helping

the environment.

According to Janet Boykin, the city’s

Rebuild America coordinator, 1997 is

the year of energy savings for Atlanta.

“In his State of the City address in

January, Mayor Campbell focused on

energy and the environment. He then

got us involved with Rebuild America.”

Mayor Campbell has charged

Atlanta’s Department of Administrative

Services and Department of Planning,

Development & Neighborhood

Conservation to work with the

International Council for Local

Environmental Initiatives to recruit

industries and manufacturers to the

Climate Wise pledge. 

They will also work with the

Climate Institute on planned

renovations to lighting and HVAC

systems to make them more energy

efficient.

The message sent by Atlanta’s Earth

Day proclamation is an important one.

Buildings are a leading source of

environmental pollution in the United

States, according to the Energy

Information Administration and the

U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency. 

In 1993, buildings were 

responsible for:

• 50 percent of total U.S. emissions of

sulfur dioxide;

• 35 percent of carbon dioxide

emissions, which is a leading

greenhouse gas; and

• 25 percent of nitrous oxide

emissions.

By joining the Rebuild America

program, however, the City of Atlanta

will be helping partners across the

country reduce greenhouse gas

emissions by 1.6 million tons a year by

the year 2000, an amount equal to

removing 1.2 million cars from the

road.

But, “energy is more than a policy

issue,” Mayor Campbell says. “It’s

about the future for children and the

environment.”

New Clean Air Standards

President Clinton recently signed new clean

air standards proposed by the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). These

new National Ambient Air Quality Standards,

for ground-level ozone (smog) and particulate

matter (soot), will protect 125 million

Americans. The new ozone standard, set at 0.08

parts-per-million (ppm), won’t go into effect

until the current standard has been met.

Counties will be in attainment under the new

ozone standard when the three-year average of

the annual 4th-highest daily maximum 8-hour

concentration is below 0.08 ppm. For

particulate matter, EPA is adding a new PM2.5

(measured as particles 2.5 micrometers in

diameter or smaller) standard set at 15

micrograms per cubic meter and a new 24-hour

PM2.5 standard of 65 μg/m3. EPA is also

retaining the current PM10 standard of 50

μg/m3.

For more information on the new clean air

standards, visit the EPA website at

www.epa.gov/ttn, or call (919) 541-5551.

Reicher Nominated For EE Post 

Dan Reicher, a longtime Department of

Energy official, has been nominated by President

Clinton to serve as the assistant secretary for

energy efficiency and renewable energy. Reicher

is currently a senior advisor to Secretary Peña on

legislative and program initiatives. He also served

as former Secretary O’Leary’s chief of staff and

deputy chief of staff, from 1993 to 1997. Before

coming to DOE Reicher was a senior attorney

at the National Resources Defense Council. As

assistant secretary, Reicher will oversee programs

to increase energy efficiency, renewable energy,

and energy conservation, including the Rebuild

America program. The U.S. Senate must

confirm Reicher for this post.

News Briefs
5

Partnerships Work 

for America’s Communities By Mark Ginsberg

In this unprecedented era that is redefining the energy industry, it

is important that we keep our focus on energy as a business. The

next few years will provide opportunities for those who

understand energy’s importance. There are profits to be had.

Businesses can reduce costs and sell products the whole world is

looking for.

DOE will continue to promote sound investments in energy

efficiency and renewable energy. That’s good for business, good for

consumers, and yes, good for the environment. DOE’s strategy

relies on building partnerships to accomplish this, whether it’s

R&D on a new lighting technology like the sulfur lamp, or in

working with local government, energy providers, community

groups and businesses to implement community-wide retrofit

projects.

We want to give customers tools and information to help them

make smart choices concerning products, services and projects,

and work toward transforming the market for energy efficiency.

Partnerships Work!

We hear about “Partnerships”a lot these days. There’s a good

reason — Partnerships Work! Partnerships build capabilities.

Congress willing, my office will spend $90 million next year

developing new technologies, and providing tools and information

to help building owners reduce energy costs.

That’s just a small down payment on the future. This is too big

a job to do alone. We need partners to accomplish our goals. 

And one of the model partnership programs within my office is

Rebuild America.

Rebuild America is about local priorities, not the federal

government’s — and you’ve told us that key among those

priorities are more affordable housing, economic development,

leaner operating budgets, better environmental quality, and access

to investment capital. We have designed the program so that you

can address those priorities, and we continue to focus on what’s

important to you.

There are over 135 partnerships underway in over 35 different

states and territories. The common thread throughout them is the

diversity of their approaches. While they all improve energy

efficiency, they all choose the approach that will work best in their

communities.

Rebuild America is about choices. Community leaders choose

which buildings to retrofit, who to partner with, and what kind of

financing will work for them. The community ultimately chooses

the direction to take based on local priorities. You tell us what’s

important, and develop action plans that make sense for you.

Mark Ginsberg is the deputy assistant secretary for building

technologies, state and community programs at the U.S. Department

of Energy. This article is excerpted from his speech at the National

Business Energy Forum in June, 1997.

opportunity to talk to people in

communities about how we can help

them.” She joked that the original intent

of the ride was “to prove that Iowa isn’t

flat. Everyone who’s ridden agrees.”

The Rebuild Iowa and Sioux Center

partnerships intend to keep in touch with

the community leaders they met with.

“We want to develop partnerships with

them, to match up our technical resources

with their community resources,” 

Stone said.

In Sioux Center, Horstman is working

with a partnership team that includes the

local utility, Chamber of Commerce and

city government. Together with the Iowa

DNR and U.S. Department of Energy,

they are aiming for a 25% reduction in

energy use in participating buildings.

“Those are dollars that will stay in the

community and roll over a few times. And

that creates more jobs,” Horstman said.

Stone and Horstman agree they will 

be back for the 1998 RAGBRAI. “It’s a 

lot of fun, but it takes a lot of planning,”

Horstman said. “We want to get some

press coverage and have a booth set up 

in each community to give 

out information.”

RAGBRAI Brings 

Iowans Together

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Partner Briefs

In the Boston region, five partnerships

in Connecticut will receive $150,000 each

from Connecticut’s Office of Policy and

Management. “As soon as the

communities receive the grants, they will

begin implementing their action plans,”

says John Ruckes, the Connecticut

program representative. The Town of

Cheshire, for example, will be focusing on

the area’s booming greenhouse industry.

Also in the region, the Rhode Island

Energy Efficiency Partnership will be

weatherizing six publicly assisted housing

duplexes. They are co-sponsoring a

workshop in October for

partners who are also DOE

low-income weatherization

assistance providers, with the Boston

region and ORNL. According to Christine

McKay, regional representative, “We did a

status survey of partners this summer, to

see how they’re doing and where we can

provide more assistance.”

For more information, contact Christine

McKay at (617) 565-9711, or e-mail

christine.mckay@hq.doe.gov.

The new Atlanta Regional Support

Office representative for Rebuild America

has big plans for the coming year. Program

Manager Yolanda Jones says she will be

working closely with existing partners and

state energy offices to “identify their needs

and assist in marketing initiatives.” A key

focus will be on helping partners in the

planning phase complete their action plans

and begin to implement them. Jones

serves as the point of contact for partners,

arranging technical assistance and helping

with action plan development. She came

to Atlanta from DOE’s Savannah River

office, where she was a general engineer

working on pollution prevention

initiatives. Joining Jones is Traci Goins,

who will also work with partners and the

Atlanta RSO as a program representative.

For more information, contact Yolanda Jones

at (404) 347-2386, fax (404) 347-3098,

or e-mail yolanda.jones@hq.doe.gov.

The City of Cuyahoga Falls in Ohio

recently installed a HVAC energy

management system in its City Hall. The

65,000-square-foot building, built in

1952, previously had HVAC systems that

ran 24 hours a day. Mayor Don L. Robart

put together a team that included Comse

Energy Managers, a subsidiary of Ohio

Edison Company and also a Rebuild

America partner. According to Project

Engineer George Locher, Jr., “We’re

already seeing that our estimated annual

savings of $13,000 are on target. The City

will recoup its investment in two and a

half years.”

For more information, contact George Locher,

Jr., project engineer, at (888) 429-7283, or

Valerie Waxcarr, the City’s deputy service

director, at (330) 971-8204.

The South Carolina Energy Office

will celebrate its one-year anniversary in

October with four local partners.

According to Project Administrator Rick

Baldauf, “That’s half of our goal of eight

partners in two years, and we have three

more on the way.” The Energy Office has

already identified and auditing has begun

on over 360,000 square feet of space in the

County of Berkeley, City of Charleston

and Charleston County Housing

Authority. “We are targeting government

buildings,” Baldauf said, “like city halls,

courthouses, a convention center and a 13-

story apartment building.” The plan,

Baldauf says, is to retrofit high energy use

buildings as examples, to show the benefits

of energy efficiency and train others to

expand the program.

For more information, contact Rick Baldauf

at (803) 737-8030.

Planning is underway in the City of

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for two projects.

The 35,000-square-foot Excelsior Hall will

be renovated to showcase the adaptive

reuse of a historic building. Excelsior Hall

is listed on the National Register of

Historic Places. An RFP has been sent out

to solicit developers interested in carrying

out the project. According to Charles

Maneval, the City’s director of economic

development, the second project will be

even larger. “A nationally known

consultant is beginning work on a strategic

plan for downtown and a major northsouth corridor,” he said. “The City of

Lancaster will be looking to Rebuild

America for technical assistance.” The

multiyear project will benefit the Lancaster

economy.

For more information, contact Charles

Maneval at (717) 291-4779.

Regional Roundup
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The Remodeler’s Show. October 17-19,

1997 in Kansas City, MO. Contact the

National Association of Home Builders at

(800) 368-5242, ext. 111, or e-mail

nahbexpo@nahb.com.

Sustainable Building Technology

Conference. October 27-29, 1997 in

Seattle, WA. Contact O’Brien & Company

at (206) 842-8995, or e-mail

obrien@halcyon.com.

1997 Green Building Conference. October

31-November 2, 1997 in Austin, TX.

Contact Nick Denner at (512) 264-0004,

or www.greenbuilder.com/conference

/aus97.html.

Excellence in Building Conference &

Exposition. November 5-8, 1997 in

Denver, CO. Contact the Energy Efficiency

Building Association at (612) 851-9940, or

www.eeba.org.

HERSC-FREE ‘97. November 14-16,

1997 in Indianapolis, IN. Contact the

Home Energy Rating Systems Council at

(202) 638-3700, or e-mail

hers@aecnet.com.

NAESCO Annual Conference. November

19-21, 1997 in New Orleans, LA. Contact

NAESCO at 1615 M Street, NW, Suite

800, Washington, DC 20036, or phone

(202) 822-0950.

Rebuild America 1998 National

Conference. March 10-12, 1998 in San

Antonio, TX. Contact Rebecca Penovich of

D&R International at (301) 588- 9384,

or e-mail rpenovich@aol.com.

Calendar

Worthwhile Web Sites

Thousands of web sites have information useful to Rebuild America partners. 

Here are a few that stand out for the breadth or depth of their resources.

Rebuild America

www.eren.doe.gov/buildings/rebuild

The Rebuild America Home Page introduces potential partners to the program,

provides a useful on-line application form, and has links to other helpful sites.

EERE

www.eren.doe.gov

The Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network [Partner Update, Spring

1997] offers timely news, “Ask an Energy Expert,” and information about DOE’s

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy programs and offices.

Solstice

solstice.crest.org

The Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology provides a 

wealth of material dealing with energy efficient building practices, discussion

groups and software.

The Utility Connection

www.magicnet.net/~metzler/index.html

The Utility Connection provides links to just about everything related to electric,

gas and water utilities, including organizations, news, magazines, resources, and

federal and state regulatory sites.

BuildNet

www.abuildnet.com

BuildNet connects to over 3,200 pages of building industry resources, 

companies, links and listings.

Mention of a site here does not confer or imply U.S. Department 

of Energy endorsement or support.

Resource Library
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U.S. Department of Energy, EE-41

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Washington, DC 20585-0121

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For information on Rebuild America, please call the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse at 1-800-DOE-EREC.

ALASKA

Rural Alaskans Conserve Energy

ARIZONA

City of Chandler

City of Tempe

Rebuild Arizona

ARKANSAS

City of Fayetteville

City of Little Rock

State of Arkansas

CALIFORNIA

City of Los Angeles

City of Petaluma

City of San Diego

ReEnergize East Bay Consortium

State of California

COLORADO

Rebuild Colorado

CONNECTICUT

City of Bridgeport

City of Hartford

City of Meriden

City of New Haven

City of Stamford

City of West Haven

State of Connecticut, Hartford

Town of Cheshire

Town of Colebrook

Town of East Hartford

Town of Ellington

Town of Fairfield

Town of Manchester

Town of Newington

Town of Stonington

Town of Vernon

Town of West Hartford

Town of Westbrook

Town of Windham

Town of Windsor

Town of Wolcott

GEORGIA

City of Atlanta

GUAM

Territory of Guam, Tiyan

HAWAII

County of Hawaii

County of Kauai

County of Maui

Hawaii State Public Library System 

State of Hawaii

IDAHO

State of Idaho

University of Idaho

ILLINOIS

Chicago Housing Authority

City of Chicago

Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority

INDIANA

Job Source

IOWA

Chamber of Commerce, Des Moines

City of Sioux Center

Hancock County

Ottumwa Area Chamber of Commerce

Rebuild Iowa

City of Webster

KANSAS

SE Kansas Education

Service Center

LOUISIANA

Central Health System, Baton Rouge

City of New Iberia

City of New Orleans

MAINE

Community Concepts Inc

York County

MARYLAND

Chesapeake Sustainability

Historic East Baltimore Community 

Action Coalition

Southeast Development Inc

University of MD at Baltimore

MASSACHUSETTS

Center for Sustainable Building

City of Cambridge

City of Newton

City of Springfield

Hampden County

NESEA

Rebuild Boston Energy Initiative

Renewable News Network

MICHIGAN

City of Ann Arbor

City of Berkley

City of Dearborn 

MINNESOTA

City of St. Paul / Minneapolis MN

MISSISSIPPI

City of Meridian

City of Natchez

MISSOURI

City of St. Louis

EnergyWorks,The Metropolitan Energy Center,

Kansas City

Missouri Energy Resources Project (MERP)

MONTANA

Montana Partners for Energy Efficiency

NEBRASKA

State of Nebraska

NEW HAMPSHIRE

State of New Hampshire

SW Community Services/Energy & Housing

Collaborative

NEW JERSEY

Bergen County Improvement Authority

City of Newark

Rebuild Camden County

Township of Gloucester

NEW MEXICO

City of Roswell

NEW YORK

City of Albany

City of Binghamton

City of Troy

Energy Services Associates, Inc.

Rebuild New York

Rebuild Western NY

NORTH CAROLINA

Duke University

NC Dept of Commerce, Energy Division

NORTH DAKOTA

State of North Dakota 

OHIO

1500 Days, The Central Ohio Energy 

Efficiency Project

Alois Alzheimer Center

American Electric Power Service Corp.

CEC Consultants 

City of Cuyahoga Falls

City of Kettering

City of Toledo

Comse Energy Managers

J. Rossi Engineering 

Kreeger & Associates, Inc.

Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority

Ohio Dept. of Aging, Columbus

Ohio Foundation for Independant Colleges

SEED Ohio

Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority

State of Ohio

OREGON

P2E2 Portland Partners for Energy Efficiency

PENNSYLVANIA

City of Lancaster

City of McKeesport

City of Philadelphia

Pittsburgh Housing Authority

State of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg

RHODE ISLAND

Rhode Island Energy Efficiency Partnership

SOUTH CAROLINA

State of South Carolina, Columbia

TENNESSEE

State of Tennessee, Nashville

TEXAS

Brazos Valley Energy Conservation Coalition

EnerSource Capital

State of Texas - Austin

Texas Christian University

Texas City

VERMONT

Burlington Energy Efficiency Project

State of Vermont, Montpelier

VIRGIN ISLANDS

Territory of Virgin Islands, St. Croix

WASHINGTON

City of Richland

Energy Outreach Center, Olympia, WA

Northwest Energy Efficiency Council

Seattle City Light

WISCONSIN

State of Wisconsin

WEST VIRGINIA

State of West Virginia

Rebuild America Partners

137 partners and counting...