The Inland Regional Energy Network (I-REN) is creating synergies across programs to support equity communities. This session highlights how I-REN is increasing access to local green jobs, satisfying local capacity needs, and completing energy projects at critical community facilities to achieve local and state energy/climate goals. I-REN’s public sector programs help public agencies identify, implement, and fund energy efficiency projects to save energy and money and meet their energy/climate goals. Agencies need resources to achieve these goals, which is especially challenging within the I-REN territory, where the vast majority of public agencies are equity communities. Many I-REN agencies also lack the capacity/expertise to implement energy projects. I-REN’s Energy Fellowship addresses this barrier by placing local Fellows to support energy efficiency project identification, benchmarking, energy action planning, and other sustainability initiatives. Attendees will learn best practices for identifying and implementing energy efficiency projects, cross-sector program collaboration, and synergistic program design.