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Paying for Green Government Course:
Financing and Implementing Environmental Sustainability Initiatives
April 24, 2009, Raleigh, NC

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This course provided an in-depth introduction to planning and funding greener government operations. The Environmental Finance Center led this participatory workshop that focused on the finance and policy challenges that arise when local governments consider implementing energy efficiency, green building, fuel efficiency, waste reduction, alternative energy projects, and other sustainability initiatives.

Participants in attendance included Sustainability Managers, Contract Coordinators, Energy Managers, Planners, Finance Directors and more.

Tuesday, April 24
8:30   Registration
9:00   Introduction and objectives
9:30   Choosing the right green projects (pdf)
Mary Tiger, Environmental Finance Center
10:00   Funding options and financial analysis (pdf)
Jeff Hughes, Environmental Finance Center
11:00   Break
11:15   Buying and selling renewable energy attributes (pdf)
Martha Gettys, NC GreenPower
11:30   Leveraging third-party equity
Brownie Newman, FLS Energy (pdf)
Blair Kendall, Souther Energy Management (pdf)
12:30   Lunch
1:30   Guaranteed energy savings contracts process and procedures
Len Hoey, State Energy Office (pdf)
Glenn Barnes, Environmental Finance Center (pdf)
2:15  

Case studies of energy performance contracts (pdf)
Butch Shumate, City of Greensboro
Steve Randall, City of Greensboro
3:00   Break
3:15   Understanding building energy use: The UNC case study (pdf)
Daniel Arneman, Energy Services Office, UNC - Chapel Hill
4:00   Using federal stimulus money for a greener government (pdf)
Glenn Barnes