About CCE Energy
CCE-Tompkins supports the county's comprehensive plan goal to reduce energy use by 80% in 50 years. We are "walking the talk" through energy efficiency and conservation improvements within our own office building and by moving to install solar panels on our roof.
We are providing education and fostering learning to address issues of energy affordability, energy independence and global climate disruption. Energy efficiency and energy conservation are a key strategy for addressing each of those issues and education has a prominent role to play. For simplicity, these web pages use the term energy efficiency to include both improved efficiency and conservation.
Our work emphasizes improvements to the heating and lighting of buildings - residential, business and institutional--especially at the scale of whole-buidling retrofits. This focus benefits the individuals making the improvements and and the economic benefits to the whole community can be huge as more money stays local and recirculates. Nation-wide trillions of dollars can be saved, even after the costs of efficiency upgrades are factored in.
CCE energy programs are organized into three broad components of energy efficiency that all need to be in place to succeed with large-scale energy efficiency:
- generate interest in energy improvements
- provide adequate financial resources
- have the capacity to do quality work
