Equitable energy-efficiency (EE) retrofit programs are a logical response to three intersecting crises: energy affordability, climate change, and housing affordability. Unfortunately, these programs can inadvertently displace the very populations they are designed to help.

Energy efficiency programs are a unique win-win service. You send a pack of LED lightbulbs to an apartment building, residents install them, and electricity bills go down. Electric grid load and fossil fuel emissions go down, too. Everyone benefits.

Climate change and damaging weather events such as droughts and wildfires are happening more often, causing utility bills to rise with them. Combined with surges in energy prices residents of California, most notably low-income earners, are having trouble making ends meet.

Local governments are leading the world in climate and energy programs that protect the environment and grow their economies. Res-Intel brings decades of transparent, microeconomic cost modeling for governments to quickly design, analyze and implement climate action and energy programs through the Turnkey Government Resiliency and Energy Efficiency Toolkit (TurnKey GREET) program.

Res-Intel announced today that it is helping the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) create a multifamily residential property inventory to support NYSERDA’s Statewide Multifamily Baseline Study, its RetrofitNY initiative, and other state programs and initiatives.

Most building energy benchmarking projects are stuck in the stone age: crude, inaccurate and inefficient. Res-Intel’s Benchmark.AI™ toolset uses artificial intelligence to generate precise energy efficiency recommendations at a fraction of the cost of prior-generation benchmarking tools. See how Res-Intel can help your energy efficiency program evolve.

Along with the Electric Power Research Institute, Hitachi, and Berkeley Labs, Res-Intel presented its tools for reducing greenhouse gas emissions through Artificial Intelligence at the virtual Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) forum

Utilities can now easily identify opportunities in multi-family buildings to reduce electricity consumption through demand response programs and simple efficiency upgrades. Res-Intel’s Benchmark.AI™ toolset can audit thousands of residences in just a few seconds; a traditional energy audit for a multi-family building can take weeks. See how it works.

Low-income and historically marginalized households have much higher energy burdens than other households. With Res-Intel’s Benchmark.AI toolset, utilities and governments can easily identify low-income apartments that are predicted to qualify for subsidized energy efficiency retrofits. We’re making energy justice easier, learn how.

Res-Intel’s Energize! energy efficiency (EE) solution utilizes data-driven outreach and best-in-class behavioral strategies to optimize EE program results and save energy in the residential building sector. The combination of information and motivation is designed to dramatically increase program participation and deliver deep energy savings.

Res-Intel is working with Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the largest electric utilities in the country, to benchmark the electricity consumption of its multi-family residential properties.

Res-Intel beat out considerable competition to become San Diego Gas and Electric’s (SDG&E) net metered energy consumption (NMEC) program evaluator.