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New website helps communities pursue economic development.(News)
SNOWMASS, CO -- Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) announced the launch of the Community Energy Opportunity Finder, an interactive website that calculates potential energy and dollar savings, air pollution emissions reductions, and potential jobs a community could create by implementing an energy-efficiency program.
"Economic development professionals tend to focus exclusively on recruiting new businesses," said Michael Kinsley, founder of RMI's Community Services team. "Most simply don't know that there are business development and job creation opportunities in energy efficiency and renewable energy." The Finder will give community members or leaders a tool to link changes in a municipality's energy use to economic impacts.
Users of the Finder website enter basic information about their city or town, its energy use, and its physical characteristics. The Finder then allows the user to create and save multiple scenarios for the community, using different economic assumptions. Finder users don't need a lot of technical expertise to take advantage of its planning features, so active community groups can use it as easily as community officials.
According to RMI, the Finder doesn't take the place of an economic development consultant, but can provide the equivalent of an energy consultant's preliminary analysis.
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