RMI's Community Energy Opportunity Finder : Welcome

Welcome to the Community Energy Opportunity Finder 2.0
This interactive tool will help you determine your community's best bets for energy solutions that benefit the local economy, the community, and the environment.

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Find Your Community's Hidden Potential
The Energy Finder is an interactive, web-based tool that enables communities to explore untapped opportunities for economic development, pollution prevention, and risk reduction through energy efficiency. It helps any community estimate these benefits and provides details to get them started on their own energy projects.

Since approximately 40 percent of the energy consumed in the U.S. is for the building sector, and about 90 percent of that energy comes from fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), increasing energy efficiency in a community can go a long way towards saving money and reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions.

The Energy Finder mimics an expert consultant’s preliminary analysis of what a community can do to save money and create jobs through energy efficiency, but costs the community nothing.

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Energy Finder 1.0 Users
Users of Energy Finder 1.0 — We are in the process of flowing your community's data into the Energy Finder 2.0 database. Please fill out this short form and we will prioritize the recovery of your data.

Who Should Use This Tool?

The Energy Finder was designed to be used by anyone wanting to learn about community opportunities for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and economic growth, such as:

• People who want to put energy on their community's economic-development radar;

• Economic-development advocates seeking solutions that improve the community and the environment;

• Business people who want to reduce operating costs;

• People who think it's foolish to pay so much for energy when there are simple and inexpensive ways to reduce costs;

• Communities that want to ensure that their economic development is compatible with smart growth and sustainable development principles;

• Local leaders seeking a sustainable future for their community.