Equity 4 Energy: Equity, empowerment, and energy reduction through community engagement and behavioral interventions

While energy efficiency programs can be beneficial to those that participate, low-income customers have historically been a harder-to-reach segment of a utility customer base.

As the Streetwyze web-based platform, paired with a train-the-trainer approach, had not been applied previously to energy efficiency, Slipstream and Streetwyze partnered on this Equity 4 Energy (E4E) project to research if the approach within this project would increase energy savings more equitably and inclusively among low-income households in urban communities of color and rural communities.

The findings in this report include lessons learned for both the engagement process and the research design approach for others who would embark on work to increase energy savings more equitably and inclusively through studying community-based interventions and data collection.