ENERGY * ENVIRONMENT * POLICY * STRATEGY * FINANCE

Publications

Our clients are often engaged in complex strategy sessions where they are tasked with relaying abstract, detailed information to multiple stakeholder groups. Below are some of the presentations and publications we’ve produced for our clients to help them navigate these sessions accurately and confidently.

Midwestern Governors Association Energy Efficiency Strategy for the Midwest [ View ]

Matthew H. Brown made this presentation the Midwest Energy Efficiency Exchange as a keynote address in September, 2009.

Models for Financing Clean Energy [ View ]
Financing Clean Energy    [ View ]

This presentation to the Keystone Energy Board describes innovative public private partnership approaches to financing energy efficiency and renewable energy for homes. It describes several new approaches that ConoverBrown is pioneering to leverage private and public capital in innovative ways. The approaches described here are being adopted in Colorado, but could be replicated elsewhere.

Canadian Renewable Energy Policies    [ View ]

This document describes federal and provincial policies in Canada that promote renewable energy.

State-Sponsored Energy Efficiency Grant, Loan and Tax Credit Programs    [ View ]

This document examines state energy efficiency loan programs and provides a discussion of best practices and lessons learned in such programs. (Prepared for the Energy Programs Consortium)

Energy Efficiency in Multi-Family Housing:
A Profile and Analysis    [ View ]

This document examines the United States multi-family housing stock and describes the potential for and policies to address energy efficiency in this sector. (Prepared for the Energy Programs Consortium).

Income, Energy Efficiency and Emissions -
The Critical Link    [ View ]

The document examines emissions from the residential sector and the role that energy efficiency may play in reducing those emissions. (Prepared with the Energy Programs Consortium).

The New Energy Efficient Mortgage    [ View ]

This document describes a new energy efficient mortgage product being designed by the Energy Programs Consortium.

Electricity Transmission: A Primer    [ View ]

This document, prepared for the National Council on Electricity Policy, provides an overview of electricity transmission technologies and policy.

Information Sharing Practices in Regulated Critical Infrastructure States    [ View ]

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.

Renewable Energy Policy Options: The U.S. Experience    [ View ]

This presentation offers an overview of renewable energy policy in the United States, with a focus on the renewable energy portfolio standard.

Energy Efficiency Financing: Leveraging Public Funds    [ View ]

This presentation describes a financial model for leveraging of public funds to support energy efficiency in the residential sector.

Non-Wires Alternatives to Building Transmission    [ View ]

This presentation, developed for the National Council on Electricity Policy, describes state activity related to alternatives to building transmission lines, including energy efficiency and distributed generation resources.

This document reviews the linkage between small businesses, greenhouse gas emissions and an innovative financing technique known as on-bill financing. The document describes ways in which small businesses have benefited from on bill financing approaches and describes a number of on bill financing approaches and examples across the United States. [NSBA On bill financing final>View ]

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