What Is CFEEA?

CFEEA is the Central Florida Energy Efficiency Alliance.  Net Impact Orlando is a founding member of this alliance aimed at rapidly accelerating sustainability Central Florida sustainability.

Topics Discussed On This Page:

CFEEA Members
Why is CFEEA with Kilowatt Crackdown Challenge a Priority Program for Net Impact Orlando?
Value to Members
CFEEA members Commitments
CFEEA Mission:
Underlying Vision/Goal
CFEEA Selected Activities
Who is Supporting CFEEA?
CFEEA Initial Focus and Funding.
Why?
Joining CFEEA.

CFEEA Members:

All Central Florida governments, utilities, schools, universities/colleges, professional, trade, business, and community associations.

Why is CFEEA with Kilowatt Crackdown Challenge a Priority Program for Net Impact Orlando?

This is the first true, Central Florida community-wide Alliance focused on sustainability.  The energy use reduction of 30% by 2012 is a stretch goal, but doable with existing technologies and the most critical aspect of becoming more sustainable.  The underpinning of CFEEA’s first Challenge, the Kilowatt Crackdown, using the EPA’s Energy Star Portfolio is brilliant because it gives businesses and institutions a straightforward, no cost way to measure, baseline, benchmark, track, and manage their energy and water use online.  Businesses and institutions need a simple path to begin the sustainability journey.

Not only can Net Impact Orlando broaden membership in CFEEA, but it can engage employees in CFEEA and the Challenge.  The best way to have impact on accelerating sustainability in Central Florida is to have a doable project that can inspire an employee to work the project with support from Net Impact Orlando whether in education, providing interns, coaching, high level presentations/proposals, etc.

The value to adding more CFEEA members is truly get the Alliance broadened to all of Central Florida for regional momentum and to get more ‘feet on the street’ to work the Challenge(s), i.e., demonstrate the value for a CFEEA member to involve its members/employees to get buildings signed up to take the Kilowatt Crackdown Challenge.

Value to Members

• Enhance sustainability/green leadership visibility, including free promotion
• Use CFEEA and its challenges to identify new business opportunities for members
• Provide opportunities for professional and career development of members
• Be connected to stimulus monies and other grant monies available or becoming available
• Connect with other sustainability business and government leaders in Central Florida to share and learn
• Contribute to accelerating Central Florida sustainability progress
• Increase collaboration on Central Florida sustainability

CFEEA Member Commitments:

• CFEEA founding members form the alliance management team and are required to attend management team meetings.  CFEEA management team meetings are open to all. 
• All CFEEA members are required to participate on a CFEEA subcommittee (e.g., Marketing, Membership) and add value to that committee.
• All CFEEA members commit their assets (e.g., building, fleet) to CFEEA initiatives.
• All CFEEA members must have a goal for each CFEEA initiative.
• All CFEEA members promote CFEEA and alliance initiatives prominently on their Web sites.

CFEEA Mission:

Provide unified sustainability voice for organizations, local government, and utilities; committed to research, education, and implementation of environmentally and socially responsible energy and building management practices that conserve energy and natural resources.

Underlying Vision/Goal:

Radically accelerate application of leading edge energy, water, and waste efficiency technologies, processes, best practices and behavior, including driving toward Mission Zero, i.e., 100% Renewable Energy, Radical Water Conservation and Zero Waste for a sustainable CF.

CFEEA Selected Activities

• Works to attract, apply, and win Federal and State funding opportunities to enable sustainability initiatives, e.g., EECBG
• Defines, promotes and tracks community-wide challenges to drive sustainability
• Provides education and supports leading edge technology application
• Works through the member organizations of the alliance to connect with CF business (residential to follow) for challenges and enroll other CFEEA potential members

Who is Supporting CFEEA?

CFEEA  Founding and New Member Examples

CFEEA Initial Focus and Funding

• Initial Focus
  • Large Central Florida Buildings
  • Business, Government, and School

Why?

• Buildings contribute over 30% of GHG Emissions
• All the technology needed to decrease energy use 30% by 2012 is broadly available
• Initial Funding
  • Some Federal ERA Funding through Department of Energy Program
  • Other Grants

Joining CFEEA

Net Impact Orlando members have access to presentations, they can tailor to inspire new CFEEA membership, as well as a tracking sheet to help them ensure the new member engages.  See Net Impact Orlando CFEEA/KWCC Program.

For direct information on CFEEA or to Register as CFEEA member at www.ocfl.net/cfeea and send signed commitment letter.