Energy Efficiency Finance Programs: Use Case Analysis to Define Data Needs and Guidelines
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
There are over 200 energy efficiency loan programs—across 49 U.S. states—administered by utilities, state/local government agencies, or private lenders.1 This distributed model has led to significant variation in program design and implementation practices including how data is collected and used. The challenge of consolidating and aggregating data across independently administered programs has been illustrated by a recent pilot of an open source database for energy efficiency financing program data. This project was led by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the Investor Confidence Project, the Clean Energy Finance Center (CEFC), and the University of Chicago. This partnership discussed data collection practices with a number of existing energy efficiency loan programs and identified four programs that were suitable and willing to participate in the pilot database (Diamond 2014).2 The partnership collected information related to ~12,000 loans with an aggregate value of ~$100M across the four programs. Of the 95 data fields collected across the four programs, 30 fields were common between two or more programs and only seven data fields were common across all programs. The results of that pilot study illustrate the inconsistencies in current data definition and collection practices among energy efficiency finance programs and may contribute to certain barriers.
- Research Organization:
- US Department of Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network (SEE Action) (State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network (SEE Action) Corporate)
- OSTI ID:
- 1331051
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/EE-1097; 7512
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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