Building Partnerships for Inclusive Home Electrification

Date: November 19, 2024
Time: 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.
Time Zone: Pacific
Location: (Virtual)

Join our Quick Start Grant webinar with Viridis Consulting and the City of Sacramento on November 19, who will highlight the importance of community-led efforts to electrify aging housing stock and low-income communities. This webinar is designed for anyone working to advance equitable electrification in hard-to-reach communities.

Featured Projects:  

Sacramento Home Energy Equity Pilot: Learn how the City of Sacramento and SMUD developed partnerships to layer existing energy equity initiatives and identify a viable approach for holistic home electrification. The pilot’s model demonstrates how to integrate electrification with housing stabilization to ensure low-income homeowners benefit from clean energy technologies without the risk of being pushed out of their homes.

Decarbonizing a Multi-Owner Equity Community: Discover how Viridis Consulting collaborated with a homeowner association to take on the challenge of electrifying an entire multifamily community. This pilot offers best practices for leveraging community governance structures to drive decarbonization in older multifamily buildings, including strategies for securing funding, addressing infrastructure challenges, and building resident buy-in.

What You’ll Learn:  

Overcoming Technical and Financial Barriers: Gain insights into how both projects navigated the high costs of electrification and the technical complexities of aging housing stock by leveraging partnerships, incentives, and phased implementation.

Creating Long-Term Community Benefits: Discover how these projects fostered community trust and awareness of heat pump technologies, resulting in long-term reductions in energy costs, improved comfort, and enhanced housing conditions for residents.

Maximizing Co-Benefits for Vulnerable Communities: Understand how electrification initiatives, when coupled with whole-home retrofits, can deliver additional community benefits, including reduced energy bills, improved thermal comfort, and increased trust in clean energy technologies.

This webinar will provide valuable insights for anyone working to advance equitable electrification in hard-to-reach communities. Please reach out to tech-clean-ca@veic.org with any questions you may have.