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2 XCEL ENERGY PARTNERS IN ENERGY Memorandum of Understanding Implementation Phase • Create content to promote in City communications (e-newsletters, social media) to share audits as the first step to energy efficiency. • Create a campaign to promote building energy assessments to businesses. • Create content on business energy resources to have City share with Chamber of Commerce communication channels. Find speakers and create presentations for business meetings. • Share best practices for City to partner with business groups to share resources. Help identify champions in the business community to highlight and create success stories for marketing. • Coordinate a door-to-door businesses campaign with a program implementor and City to share about energy efficiency assessments and recommendations for projects. • Share energy efficiency resources, funding, and programs to help residents reduce energy use, including those experiencing high energy burden. • Help identify grants and funding sources to have City provide free or reduced home energy audits. • Share best practices for City to cultivate partnerships with local organizations, food shelves, libraries, schools, and parks. • Create content and materials on energy efficiency and ways to reduce energy burden to share in joint communication channels and at events. • Support communication with rental property managers about energy efficiency improvement opportunities for facilities and residents. • Identify resources for the City to share with multi-family building owners and managers, retail spaces, nonprofits, and senior living facilities to promote energy assessments. • Help coordinate the creation of energy kits to distribute to residents of multi- family buildings and create materials to support energy education of items. • Create mailers and utility bill inserts for renters to learn energy-saving tips and programs. Help facilitate translation of materials into other languages when appropriate. • Create content for the City to include in property license renewal channels. Support funded by Xcel Energy for this strategy is not to exceed 74 hours. These hours will include those provided through the Partners in Energy team from Center for Energy and Environment and does not include support provided by Xcel Energy internal program staff. Renewable Energy • Create a targeted campaign for residents to partake in utility renewable energy subscription programs and community solar gardens. o Use mapping tools and data to identify where people have not installed solar and target those areas. o Create a guide that shares available programs and renewable options, and best practices for residents to select programs that fit their needs.