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This document reviews multiple energy efficiency financing programs across North America, providing details on the success and challenges from each. It was prepared with funding from the SeaChange Foundation, for the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project.

This document provides an analysis of renewable energy and electricity transmission issues in Colorado. Matthew Brown was overall project manager for a team of consultants that produced this report for the Colorado Governor’s Energy Office.

This presentation describes approaches to using energy efficiency as an alternative to building new transmission facilities.

This document, prepared for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, examines information sharing practices and ways to protect security sensitive information while still maintaining an open public process for consideration of utility rates and related issues.

This document is a summary of a larger project prepared for the International Energy Agency. It offers an overview of Canadian policies that promote renewable energy.

This document, prepared for the Midwestern Governors Association, is a primer on smart grid policy and technology issues.

This brief, prepared for the Alliance to Save Energy, describes in detail several options for states seeking to implement long-term energy efficiency campaigns, as well as the lessons learned from experimentation with such programs in four states: California, Colorado, New York, and Vermont.

This report, completed for the ASE, addresses state tax polices that encourage energy efficiency. The brief breaks down all the components to consider for developing such state policies, providing examples of existing policies within the United States.

This brief on building energy codes, prepared for the Alliance to Save Energy, discusses options for facing the challenge of adopting and complying with energy codes. It addresses ways to enforce more uniformity of codes among and within states without compromising other necessary codes (ie safety, plumbing, electrical).

This brief, completed for the Alliance to Save Energy, discusses various options for models of rate-payer funded energy efficiency. We cover three ways to create such a model: the first would be run by the government; the second, run by the utility at hand; and the third, by a non-profit organization.