Knowledge-Sharing Network

American Cities Climate Challenge Renewables Accelerator Funding Guidance
This American Cities Climate Challenge tool allows users to search for funding opportunities, tax credits, and resources for electricity, transportation, buildings, and resilient energy systems.

DSIRE: Available Incentives
The North Carolina Clean Energy Center provides the DSIRE database as a source of information on incentives and policies that support energy generation and energy efficiency in the United States.

Federal Emergency Management Agency National Risk Map
The Federal Emergency Management Agency National Risk Map illustrates the risk for 18 types of natural hazards for U.S. communities.

Guide to Developing Resilience Hubs
The Urban Sustainability Directors Network developed the Guide to Developing Resilience Hubs as a resource for communities considering hubs for energy resilience.

Requests for Proposals: RFP Template Best Practices
This NREL presentation provides an overview of the request for proposals process and outlines best practices.

Energy Integration Best Practices
This Alaska case study documents lessons learned to address potential energy and storage integration issues in remote Alaska communities.

Power Cost Equalization Overview
This guide and overview of the power cost equalization program from the Alaska Energy Authority provides basic information on the program and how it works.

Railbelt Energy Glossary
The Railbelt Energy Glossary defines key terms relevant to Alaska’s Railbelt region.

Tribal Independent Power Producer Development in Alaska—Opportunities, Challenges, and Community Benefits
This document discusses efforts to develop a Tribal independent power producer in Alaska, defining opportunities, presenting challenges, and outlining community benefits.

For more resources and community support in Alaska, contact Haleigh Reed or Savannah Crichton at Renewable Energy Alaska Project, ETIPP's regional partner for Alaska.

Puerto Rico

Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction, and Resiliency Transparency Portal
This Transparency Portal documents federally funded recovery programs available since 2017 in Puerto Rico, including financial analysis of federal disaster grant assistance.

LUMA System Overview
This dashboard includes information about energy demand, reserves, and supply, with filters available by geography base, peaking, and energy generation.

PREPA: Our Operation
This dashboard includes information about energy by fuel, total generation, generation and frequency, and type of generation.

Puerto Rico Electric Power and Renewable Energy Dashboard, Transmission and Distribution System
The Puerto Rico Public Service Regulatory Boards dashboard showcases transmission and distribution system information for the island with information on power outage duration, power interruption numbers, and average interruption duration.

Ruta Energetica Para Puerto Rico
Ruta Energetica provides information about Puerto Rico's progress improving the reliability of the energy system and investment of federal funds.

U.S. Virgin Islands

University of the Virgin Islands—Caribbean Green Technology Center Projects
The University of the Virgin Islands' Caribbean Green Technology Center houses information on projects developed to enhance island energy security and reliability.

U.S. Virgin Islands 2023 Energy Baseline Report
NREL’s U.S. Virgin Islands 2023 Energy Baseline Report summarizes energy sources, consumption, and the energy sector in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Virgin Islands Energy Office
The U.S. Virgin Islands Energy Office website provides information about the office, resources, energy programs, rebate program details, and news.

Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority
The U.S. Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority website provides bill payment, office information, educational and opportunity resources, and news.

For more resources and community support in the Carribean Territories region, contact Juan Carlos Castro at the Hispanic Federation, the ETIPP Regional Partner for the Caribbean Territories.

Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative
The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative supports local leaders along the coastline of the Great Lakes to improve energy reliability, access to water, and economic development for blue economy communities.

Great Lakes Islands Alliance
The Great Lakes Islands Alliance provides resources and shared learning for the unique challenges and culture of Great Lakes island residents.

Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
The Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance provides information about energy efficiency initiatives and building codes, state energy policies, and trainings and workforce development programs for states in the region.

Midwest Renewable Energy Association
The Midwest Renewable Energy Association provides resources on energy generation installations and best practices and guidance on energy reliability in the region.

Midwest Tribal Energy Resources Association
The Midwest Tribal Energy Resources Association website houses resources available to Tribes as they work for Tribal management of energy resources.

For more resources and community support in the Great Lakes region, contact Lonna Berg or Rob Kline at Slipstream, ETIPP's regional partner for the Great Lakes.

Community Voices in Energy Survey Report—Texas Gulf Coast
This report includes feedback from low-to-moderate income Texas Gulf Coast households on their experiences with energy affordability and reliability.

Electric Reliability Council of Texas Grid and Market Conditions
These dashboards provide a real-time overview of supply and demand, grid conditions, prices, outages, fuel mix, storage resources, and ancillary services across the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

Florida Municipal Power Agency—Electric Utility 101 Training
The Electric Utility 101 Training from Florida Municipal Power Agency—a wholesale power agency owned by Florida’s municipal electric utilities working to provide reliable, low-cost power and shared services—gives new or transitioning utility staff a basic, customizable overview of how electric utilities work, in an interactive and flexible format.

Gulf Coast Energy Network
This website provides background on the Gulf Coast Energy Network, which promotes efficient use of water and energy resources in the Gulf Coast region.

Solar Incentives and Financing in Florida
An overview of incentives available in Florida to help with residential and commercial solar installation.

For more resources and community support in the Gulf Coast region, contact ETIPP's Regional Partners for the Gulf Coast: Jake Leech at Southeast Sustainability Directors Network, or Valeria Bermudez at STEM NOLA.

American Samoa: Energy Baseline Report
This U.S. Department of Interior report provides a baseline for the energy infrastructure, priorities, and policies that impact American Samoa's energy use and can inform future programming and priorities for American Samoa's energy security and reliability.

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Energy Baseline Report
This U.S. Department of Interior report outlines energy sector data, including energy consumption, end uses, energy production, policies, and challenges for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Guam: Energy Baseline Report
This U.S. Department of Interior report summarizes the energy consumption, end uses including transportation and electric power, energy production, policies, and challenges for the energy sector in Guam.

Hawaii State Energy Office Energy Data
This portal includes information on fuel imports, an energy flowchart, and an outline of the generation used across the islands.

Hawaiian Electric Company: Integrated Grid Planning
The Integrated Grid Planning page from Hawaiian Electric includes actionable steps for Hawaii to meet the state's reliability goals.

How the Hawaiian Power Grid Works
This YouTube video from Practical Engineering offers an overview of the complexities of managing Hawaii's power grid.

For more resources and community support in Hawaii and the Pacific Territories, contact Eric Sippert at the Hawaii State Energy Office, ETIPP's Regional Partner for the Hawaii and the Pacific Territories.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management: Atlantic Region
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Atlantic Region webpage provides regional guidelines, energy project information, and relevant resources for communities along the Atlantic coast of the Outer Continental Shelf.

Northeast Ocean Plan
The Northeast Ocean Plan is a guide for stakeholders to advance progress toward managing public ocean resources.

Northeast Region Ocean Council
The Northeast Region Ocean Council's website offers an overview of the state and federal partnership's priorities, projects, and news.

For more resources and community support in the Northeastern Seaboard, contact Brenna Cohen or Kate Klibansky at the Island Institute, ETIPP's Regional Partner for the Northeast.

Emerald Cities Collaborative: Northwest
Emerald Cities Collaborative Northwest features regionally specific energy resources and showcases the network's efforts to involve various organizations in environmental leadership and to build energy, infrastructure, and development projects.

Introduction to Workforce Development
This NREL presentation covers an introduction to best practices for workforce development programs and defines workforce development, impacts of energy investments on employment, and resources.

Oregon Biennial Energy Report
The Oregon Biennial Energy Report informs local, state, regional, and federal energy policy development, energy planning, and energy investments.

For more resources and community support in the Pacific Northwest, contact Mia Devine at Spark Northwest, ETIPP's Regional Partner for the Pacific Northwest.

Community Solar: Best Practices for Utilities in the South
This Southern Environmental Law Center policy brief outlines best practices for community solar development in the region.

Resilience Training for the Southeast
This training for the Public Service Commission of South Carolina by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory covers resilience training for the Southeast, including planning, causes and impacts of grid outages, threats, and best practices.

Southeast Electric Transportation Regional Initiative
The Southeast Electric Transportation Regional Initiative is working to accelerate the growth of transportation electrification in the Southeast and includes updates on its progress, access to relevant electrification resources, and data and maps that can be leveraged by communities.

Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance
The Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance implements energy efficiency efforts in the region, and communities can leverage research and reports in energy efficiency policy, the built environment, energy-efficient transportation, and regional investments.

Stakeholder Recommendations for Reducing Energy Insecurity in the Southeast United States
This publication from Duke University provides recommendations for reducing energy costs and improving reliability in the southeastern United States.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Climate Impacts in the Southeast
This webpage discusses the potential impacts of natural weather hazards in the Southeastern region of the United States to help communities prepare.

For more resources and community support in the Southeast, contact John Roberts Jr. or David Wright at Groundswell, ETIPP's Regional Partner for the Southeast.