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Clean Energy Works Portland Innovative Solutions to Climate Change: Green Jobs and Energy Efficiency. February 16, 2010 Switzer Fellows Webinar Jeremy Hays – Green For All. Overview. Revolving Loan Fund with on-bill repayment Now: 500 home pilot
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Clean Energy Works PortlandInnovative Solutions to Climate Change: Green Jobs and Energy Efficiency February 16, 2010 Switzer Fellows Webinar Jeremy Hays – Green For All
Overview • Revolving Loan Fund with on-bill repayment • Now: 500 home pilot • Mid-2010: Scale up 100,000 homes (10,00 Jobs) Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. and Irvington Covenant Pre-apprenticeship Program are partners in the innovative Community Workforce Agreement
Partners • City • State Energy Trust • County • Shorebank • Utilities • WIB • Green For All • (Broad Array of Stakeholders)
How CEWP Works Pool of Contractors #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 Revolving Loan Fund $2.5 Million from ARRA and City Later: Investors Loan Agreement Contract for Work
How CEWP Works Pool of Contractors #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 Revolving Loan Fund $2.5 Million from ARRA and City Later: Investors Loan Agreement Utilities On-bill repayment Contract for Work
Community Workforce Agreement • Goals and Targets + Strategies • Workforce diversity, local hire, family-supporting jobs, diverse business participation, highly-skilled workforce • Stakeholder Committee leading implementation
Job Training • Designated Training Programs • Provide essential skills • Provide opportunities to disadvantaged groups • Training utilization requirement • All contractors in the program pool must hire their new workers from these programs • Results: more skills, more opportunity
Business Support Services • Goal – grow a strong, diverse, local base of retrofit contractors • Support for pre-application, application, implementation phases • Technical assistance, working capital, reporting, prime-sub relationships, etc
Performance Monitoring • Ongoing evaluation and adjustment • Reporting schemes • Pioneering software
Replication & Scale • Replication of this model • Other cities across the country • Scaling up • Rental housing, multi-family, and commercial • Expanding statewide
Thanks! Jeremy Hays Green For All Switzer Fellow 2001 jeremy@greenforall.org More info: www.greenforall.org/portland