Dubuque Action Plan

The comprehensive goal for E-Community Dubuque is to stimulate awareness in energy efficiency, renewable energy and environmental protection. Through collaborative efforts, the Dubuque community can recognize and strengthen wise energy management and efficiency improvements.

The 2005 E-Community Dubuque program objectives will be to decrease the community’s overall electrical consumption, according to weather-normalized usage data from 2003 by approximately 3,074,000 kWh (0.436%).

Additionally, the program will identify and then encourage having efficiency measures installed or procedures initiated to reduce energy demand by over 1100 KW.

Download the E-Community Dubuque Action Plan [PDF]

E-Community Dubuque will emphasize the importance and profitability of implementing energy-efficient procedures and provide assistance in identifying energy improvement projects and what action is required for the performance of such projects.

Specifically, the program will:

• Identify energy waste and what can be done about it.
• Explain how new technologies and renewable resources can save energy, money and improve productivity.
• Assist in developing individual energy efficiency plans.
• Facilitate locating qualified trades to help implement the energy plans.
• Describe how to utilize incentives to get energy improvements underway.
• Help realize additional savings by looking for the ENERGY STAR® label on lighting, computers, refrigeration equipment, motors, electronics and other products for homes and businesses.
• Discover new resources and information with access to training, education and other utility, state, and federal programs.

These results will be achieved through supporting and facilitating energy management, efficiency improvements and educational initiatives to support the community’s low-income, residential, commercial, industrial, governmental and agricultural consumer energy needs.

Holistic approach, long-term objectives

E-Community Dubuque offers a holistic approach, emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of all the parts, to meet our current and future energy needs.

By collaborating the programs resources and people in place with Alliant Energy, the Department of Energy, the Iowa DNR, the Iowa Energy Center and strategic partners of the Dubuque Area Labor-Management Council and E-Community Dubuque, these goals are realistic and attainable during the contract period.

The action plan is deliberately structured to accommodate revisions and updates as utility and other rebate and incentive programs are introduced and/or changed. The plan anticipates expansion. Therefore, as initiatives are completed, new projects will be integrated. The E-Community Dubuque program will adjust as the program continues to evolve and mature.

Innovation, demonstration and education

Through technological innovation, demonstration, implementation and education initiatives, E-Community Dubuque will encourage the Dubuque community to boost energy-efficiency efforts and the payback increases well into the future.

In Dubuque, as with most communities, the principal barrier is the effective distribution of information regarding the benefits of utilizing energy-efficient practices and incentive programs by consumers. Energy efficiency is the least costly and most immediate method to meet energy supply issues. By reducing the amount of energy needed to run homes and businesses, those dollars can be re-allocated to important activities within the Dubuque community.

By setting reasonable goals and taking practical first steps to realize measurable reductions in energy usage, the community will curb expenditures, improve productivity, enhance overall comfort, increase economic profitability, advance employment prospects and safeguard the environment.

Download the E-Community Dubuque Action Plan [PDF]

To learn more, contact your E-Community Dubuque Coordinator.

Brochures and fact sheets:

E-Community: Rewarding Dubuque for Energy Savings [PDF]