More and more communities are realizing energy planning plays a critical role in helping them reach their goals. The benefits of wise energy choices are diverse. By working with citizens, businesses, and even their own government facilities, a community can shave dollars off utility bills, promote renewables, drive resource conservation or contribute toward greenhouse gas reduction goals. Partners in Energy helps address the challenge of identifying local priorities and then structures a path that leverages all resources available.
As part of this offering, we have developed several toolkits that focus on unique sectors often identified as a focus for Partners in Energy communities. These toolkits are intended to help walk users through the process of engaging with these sectors to realize energy and cost savings.
For more information about available toolkits or to customize any of the resources with your community’s unique brand identity, contact your Partners in Energy facilitator or email PartnersinEnergy@xcelenergy.com.
The Partners in Energy Advanced Grid Community Playbook identifies steps to educate and engage communities on the Advance Grid Initiative. This is Xcel Energy's effort to build a smarter and more resilient energy grid that will better serve customers for decades to come.
Beneficial Building Electrification Toolkit
This toolkit focuses on the beneficial electrification of buildings, which seeks to reduce direct fossil-fueled appliances at the same time the electric grid is decarbonizing with wind, solar, and other cleaner forms of power. The goal of this toolkit is to provide background, information, and resources for communities seeking to move toward beneficial building electrification.
Energize Giving is the name we’ve given to our Partners in Energy toolkit for faith-based organizations. This toolkit is ideal if you would like to help faith-based organizations and members save money on utility costs and promote stewardship of earth’s resources. This kit will help you understand the benefits of partnering with faith-based organizations and how to develop long-term relationships and energy actions.
Electric Vehicle Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to support local government planners or other staff, nonprofit organizations, and volunteers in identifying electric vehicle (EV) priorities for their community and identifying the appropriate strategies to support this vision. These goals might involve engaging with local fleet operators, employers, policy makers, or residents.
Energy resilience is the ability of communities to withstand and rapidly recover from shocks and stressors that impact community energy supply and use. This toolkit covers ways that communities can become more energy resilient, with a range of efforts from "first step" measures like weatherization and energy use to more ambitious projects like establishing microgrids.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the most significant climate bill in American history. It contains $369 billion in climate and clean energy investments. Xcel Energy’s Partners in Energy has developed this Resource Guide to help local governments, residents, and businesses navigate what IRA resources are available to them and how these resources could stack with Xcel Energy incentives and other resources.
Xcel Energy’s Multi-family (5+ Unit) Toolkit will guide you through step-by-step instructions and resources to engage property owners and tenants, including owner-occupants, as well as management companies in energy conservation.
New Construction & Redevelopment Toolkit
Xcel Energy’s New Construction and Redevelopment Toolkit will guide you through step-by-step instructions and resources to educate and engage developers in energy conservation and
renewable energy.
This toolkit provides resources for Partner in Energy communities to connect remotely with residents to build resilience and drive impact for energy campaigns.
Renewable energy is a rapidly changing topic. New technologies, lower prices, new legislation, and broader acceptance of wind and solar energy are continually emerging. This toolkit is designed to support local government staff, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and volunteers in identifying renewable energy priorities and strategies for their community - to drive actions that support their vision.
Small & Medium Business Toolkit
This kit is designed to help local governments connect businesses with energy resources. Most of the materials were developed to support outreach to small and medium-sized businesses that don’t have dedicated facility managers.
Underserved Communities Toolkit
Xcel Energy’s Underserved Populations Toolkit will help you leverage resources to engage and communicate with underserved populations to promote energy efficiency activities. It includes a step-by-step guide on developing and implementing strategies to engage these populations.
Xcel Energy’s Workforce Development Toolkit can help your community provide underrepresented and disadvantaged groups with job training and resources in the energy industry, while also providing local businesses and residents with energy savings.
Xcel Energy’s 1–4 Unit Toolkit will guide you through step-by-step instructions and resources to engage property owners and tenants, including owner-occupants, as well as management companies in energy conservation.