The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP), with support from the Energy Foundation (EF), offered this webinar at no charge to EF grantee participants as part of a series of training courses on energy efficiency program design and implementation.

Moderator:   Chris Neme, Energy Futures Group

Instructors:  Peter Adamczyk,
Vermont Energy Investment Corporation
Dennis O’Connor, United Illuminating

When:             July 27, 1 pm Eastern Daylight Time

Length:           Approximately 2 hours
The instructors will cover:

• Why financing is necessary, but not sufficient for enabling energy efficiency on a massive scale;
• Why most financing offers to date have not succeeded in significantly increasing efficiency investments or efficiency program participation;
• The promise of new approaches, including utility on-bill financing, PACE and others;
• The barriers to making these new approaches work, and how they might be overcome; and
• How one utility has successfully used on-bill financing for small commercial customers.