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Priority Area: Clean Energy and Building Decarbonization
Barrier: Assistance Coordination

Challenge/Local/State

Description

Local Solution
(Type of Activity: Community Program Implementation )

Provide Concierge-Style, Project-Specific Technical Assistance. Local implementers can offer hands-on, concierge-style technical assistance to help households and small businesses interpret requirements, navigate compliance, and complete applications—reducing abandonment of complex retrofit and electrification projects.

Existing Examples of Progress: 1. South Coast Air Quality Management District is focusing on reducing ozone emissions and particulate matter by controlling NOx emissions, working on regulations to require zero emission space and water heating technologies, and will launch a Go Zero program in early 2025 to help bridge the cost barrier for zero emission transitions. The program will target overburdened communities with rebates, stack incentives, and assistance on finding funding. 2. Basset Avocado Advanced Energy Community Pilot – Provides comprehensive homeowner navigation for retrofit incentives and code compliance; participants recommended replication across the region.3. Silicon Valley Clean Energy has a one-on-one “concierge service” model to navigate incentives and retrofits.
Region: San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Inland Deserts, San Diego, Statewide

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