August 2024 - We’re thrilled to announce a groundbreaking new project that brings together Greenlink Analytics and the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) to make building decarbonization more fair and community focused. Thanks to funding from the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Resilient and Efficient Codes Implementation program, we’re working together on the Supporting Equitable Building Performance (SEBP) initiative.
Buildings are major energy consumers and play a critical role in climate action. Improving their efficiency can significantly reduce energy demand, carbon emissions, and health impacts. But changes to building policy impact the very communities who rely on them for residential and business purposes. That’s why our approach is centered around ensuring that these policies are developed with community needs at the forefront.
“At Greenlink, we envision a future that delivers the health and wealth opportunities of the clean energy transition, communities drive policy making, and our society becomes more fair,” said Greenlink’s CEO Matt Cox. “The SEBP project aligns perfectly with this vision.”
The project seeks to develop and robust equitable policies across multiple locations by forging intersectional partnerships and pinpointing the climate action solutions communities currently prioritize, all funded through federal climate funding. The locations are the states of California and Washington, and the cities of Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Washington DC.
Greenlink will assist IMT in finding local partners in each city involved in this project. These community-based organizations will act as a bridge between IMT and the communities, making sure that as new building performance policies are developed; key community stakeholders have a voice. We’re providing all partners with access to our equity mapping tool, GEM. This tool helps people see differences between neighborhoods in terms of social, economic, and environmental factors, including energy burden and heat levels.We will also conduct heavy modeling and analysis to evaluate how building carbon emissions reductions might affect utility bills and energy grid capacity.
“This project represents the perfect opportunity for Greenlink to deploy all of our skills across a wide range of topics: data analytics, modeling, participatory process, policy analysis, equity analysis, and more,” said Cox. “These are the types of opportunities that will leverage Greenlink’s capabilities to benefit and elevate the quality of life of people and communities for years to come.”
Acknowledgment: “This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Building Technologies Office Award Number DE-EE00010929.”
Legal Disclaimer: “The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department of Energy or the United States Government.”
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