Sustaining ARRA Energy Efficiency Investments

Facilitator: Rob Graff

Manager, Office of Energy and Climate Change InitiativesDelaware Valley Regional Planning Commission

www.dvrpc.org/EnergyClimate

KEEA Conference 2010: The Future of Energy Efficiency in Pennsylvania

September 21, 2010

Pennsylvania Energy ARRA Funding

Category Total for PA

Miscellaneous Energy Efficiency $245,465,910

Weatherization Assistance Program $213,846,876

Research $132,449,370

EECBG (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants)

$100,934,871

Dept of Housing & Urban Development

$51,576,870

State Energy Program $42,027,030

Solar, Wind $23,279,134

Dept of Labor $5,100,658

Totals $814,680,719

Misc EE31%

Weatherization Assistance Program

26%

Research16%

EECBG12%

Solar, Wind3%State Energy

Program5%

Dept of Housing & Urban Devel

6%

Dept of Labor1%

Source: Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance (KEEA), Chennery Fife, Policy Intern Energy Coordinating Agency

Energy Efficiency Planning, Funding and Implementation in PA

Research for Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance by:Chennery Fife, Policy Intern, Energy Coordinating Agency

Presenters:• Maureen Guttman

PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Harrisburg

• Lindsay BaxterSustainability Director, City of Pittsburgh

• Katherine GajewskiDirector of Sustainability, City of Philadelphia

• Rick RothhaarDirector of Business Development, CCI, Pittsburgh

Questions:• What are we doing with the ARRA/EECBG funding?• What progress are we making towards those goals?• Once the ARRA/EECBG tap is turned off, what enduring, systemic

changes will these funds have engendered?  • How will you continue to make progress once these funds are

gone?