Menu of Efficiency and Electrification

Building Owners and Managers: Continue your building’s sustainability journey

The Efficiency and Electrification Project Pathways menu presents three options that multi-family property owners can explore to enhance the efficiency, comfort, and cost-effectiveness of their buildings. This menu highlights resources for buildings categorized by system type, including utility programs, rebates, incentives, and financing opportunities.

High Performance

This pathway focuses on building envelope improvements and energy efficiency upgrades that target reducing the largest energy uses in the average building.

Set your building project’s foundation for the Electric-Forward or All-Electric Pathway.

Pathway Goals

Return on investment
Reduce onsite water consumption
Meet corporate sustainability mandates
Protect occupant health and improve comfort
Minimize tenant complaints and turnover
Improve resilience during extreme weather
Minimize out-of-pocket costs

Upgrade Opportunities

Insulation in walls, attics, and crawl spaces
High-performance windows
High-performance faucets and showerheads
LED lighting
High-efficiency water heating
And more

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Electric-Forward

This pathway builds on the building and efficiency improvements from the High-Performance Pathway. The focus of the Electric-Forward Pathway is on preparing the electrical infrastructure to handle the increased loads that come with the All-Electric Pathway.

Pathway Goals

Future-proof against new solar and efficiency code requirements
Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
Improve the electrical system’s resilience
Reduce risks of electrical fires and failures
Increase property value

Upgrade Opportunities

Electrical panel upgrades
Prepare roof for solar
Prepare electrical distribution for the added loads of EV chargers
Reservation of space for batteries
Install property-level wifi network
And more

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All-Electric

This pathway builds on the improvements made under the High-Performance and Electric-Forward Pathways. The All-Electric Pathway focuses on maximizing the return on investment from operating a high-performance building by fully electrifying all systems, adding onsite renewable energy generation and storage, and adding electric vehicle charging for an additional source of revenue.

Pathway Goals

Maximize return on investment
Significantly reduce onsite greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
Increase property value
Take advantage of attractive state and federal tax incentives before they sunset
Pursue sustainable design certification(s)
Create jobs
Electrify transportation as another revenue stream