JCI joins city for Milwaukee Energy Efficiency launch
Last spring, the city's Office of Environmental Sustainability started Milwaukee Energy Efficiency -- or Me2 -- with goals of reducing pollution, creating hundreds of private-sector green jobs, reducing energy bills and improving the commercial building and housing stock.
This community-wide effort is being accomplished without the use of any local government funds or subsidies. The innovative Me2 Clean Energy Financing Program leverages funds that it received from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to provide up to $60 million in enhanced private-sector financing for building owners. Me2 helps to link property owners to energy contractors and private lenders, while eliminating significant upfront costs associated with efficiency projects that are then paid for from savings resulting from reduced energy use.