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Two new NASEO reports can help states, localities, and others to advance grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) and demand flexibility to save money, reduce emissions, strengthen energy reliability and resilience, and deliver other benefits that support policy objectives.  

• Wringing More Value from Building Energy Operations and Upgrades: Monetizing Demand Flexibility in Public and Institutional Buildings outlines opportunities to include and encourage use of time differentiation and demand flexibility in public and institutional building operations, procurement, Energy Savings Performance Contracting, and emerging Energy-as-a-Service arrangements to save money and help meet public policy goals.
• State and Local Building Policies and Programs for Energy Efficiency and Demand Flexibility examines ways to include demand flexibility in state and local building policies and programs, such as benchmarking and transparency, ratings and labeling, and building performance standards. It also discusses potential avenues via building codes, appliance standards, and zoning and land-use regulation.

These reports were developed in association with the NASEO-NARUC GEB Working Group that, with U.S. DOE Building Technologies Office and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory support, is helping states with resources, exchange, and technical assistance to explore GEB benefits and opportunities as well as to inform their development of energy policies, plans, programs and regulations.

Please contact Rodney Sobin (rsobin@naseo.org) or Ed Carley (ecarley@naseo.org) with any questions about these reports, demand flexibility and GEB, or the Working Group.