EECBG Technical Assistance

Through the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG), CEDI supports design and analysis technical assistance to building energy improvement projects to cities, counties, native nations, school districts, and low to moderate income multifamily and single-family properties within our eligible energy districts.

The Clean Energy Districts of Iowa (CEDI) is a nonprofit consortium of Energy Districts in 15 counties across Iowa and 1 county in Wisconsin. CEDI's mission is to support clean energy transition in its member districts by supporting their individual initiatives; advocating for state-level energy policy that facilitates fair and just ratemaking and energy infrastructure; and by providing low-cost technical assistance to Districts and individual businesses, municipalities, and organizations in accessing state and federal funding.

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Meet Our EECBG Team

Abby Steffens

Grant Program Manager

abby.steffens@cleanenergydistricts.org

Abby Steffens, an Eastern Iowa native, has joined the CEDI team as our EECBG grant program manager. She holds a bachelor's degree in human health science from the University of Dubuque and a master's in sustainability from the University of South Dakota. Abby brings experience in nonprofit management, sustainable community building, and residential energy assessment. She worked with public utility commission all-electric incentive programs in California, in addition to full-time energy auditing as a past Green Iowa AmeriCorps volunteer.  Having relocated back to the Midwest, Abby is excited to guide this program to support communities in her home state seeking to strengthen their building efficiency, resiliency, and energy-generation opportunities.

Gerald Robinson

EECBG Renewable Energy Analyst

gerald.robinson@cleanenergydistricts.org

Gerald Robinson has been working in commercial and institutional energy management since 1992 and recently served as Program Manager and Principal Investigator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is also an affiliate researcher with the University of Louisiana. Gerald graduated with an MBA from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School Of Business--Los Angeles and a BA in Environmental Studies from the College of The Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine. He is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) and a Certified Building Commissioning Professional and has received the Advanced Solar PV Design Certification through Solar Energy International. We are excited to have his expertise guiding our client's projects toward potential resilient energy systems and energy improvement projects.

This is an Equal Opportunity Program. Discrimination is prohibited by Federal Law.

 

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