New Jersey’s Clean Energy Program (NJCEP) is launched and will incorporate the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)’s Investor Confidence Project (ICP) energy efficiency protocols into the state’s Pay for Performance (P4P) program as an alternative compliance path.

The Pilot is designed to assess the benefits of adopting ICP protocols for NJCEP’s commercial and industrial projects with a goal of:

• Successfully incorporate ICP protocols into the NJCEP P4P Existing Buildings Program with minimal disruption to the current Program and its stakeholders, while facilitating access to private financing and projects through a more robust marketplace for energy efficiency services.
• Through the EDF-ICP Investor Ready Energy Efficiency (IREE™) protocols, provide to building owners and potential investors increased confidence in energy and energy cost savings. A secondary benefit is to test the market for the value of achieving the ICP IREE certification as a means to streamline financial underwriting.

The program is currently accepting projects into the P4P/ICP Pilot.

Program Offerings and Incentives
The ICP Pilot will offer up to $35,000 of additional incentives to qualifying  Investor Ready Energy Efficiency™ certified projects and conducting measurement and verification.

​Get Involved
If you are a credentialed project developer or part of the ICP Investor Network, we would love to help you get involved in this exciting new opportunity. Please contact us and we would be happy to discuss next steps, and facilitate introductions.

The California Commissioning Collaborative will be hosting a webinar on the the Investor Confidence Project on Wednesday, February 17 at the CCC's next lunch and learn webinar.

We need to talk about... The link between investor confidence and commissioning 
 
Commissioning doesn't usually arouse the interest of investors, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't. The Investor Confidence Project (ICP) provides a suite of protocols, existing industry certifications, and third party verification to support "investor-ready" energy efficiency projects. ICP is intended to attract much-needed private capital that can help grow the energy efficiency industry. And it could be great news for the commissioning industry!

ICP could help drive more demand for commissioning projects and offer new business opportunities to commissioning providers. This webinar will provide insight on how to become a credentialed provider, how to certify a project, and how ICP can be used to support commissioning projects.

Presenters:
Matt Golden, Senior Energy Finance Consultant, EDF
Tracy Phillips, Technical Lead, Investor Confidence Project
   
Wednesday, Feb. 17th 2015
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm Pacific 

This webinar is open to the public and free of charge. 

Register for the webinar 
 
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