Program Design

Blue Tree specializes in public-private partnerships that require innovation and collaboration to catalyze change in emerging industries.  Blue Tree has built an expertise in clean energy program design through its engagement in the development and implementation of Clean Energy Works Oregon.  

The greatest opportunity for value creation with programs like this exists across traditional sector and jurisdictional boundaries, where collaboration is required to capture it.  Blue Tree specializes in facilitating such partnerships through the entire process of opportunity identification, steering committee formation, stakeholder engagement, program development, financial analysis, pilot testing and commercial implementation. 

Case Study: Clean Energy Works Oregon

Clean Energy Works is a leading national model on deployment of public investment dollars available from the Energy Efficiency Block Grant (EECBG) made available through the American REcovery & Reinvestment Act.  The program delivers economic stimulus and job creation through a service delivery platform enabling homeowners to make their house more energy efficient. 

Clean Energy Works is backed by a below market rate financial product that is repaid on a participants utility bill with the energy savings generated from the energy efficiency retrofit work.  The goals of the program are job creation, energy use and carbon emissions reduction, and market transformation of the energy efficiency industry. 

Blue Tree helped launch the program by collaborating with key program stakeholders in the design of the fund structure, on-bill utility repayment mechanism, financial product and overall program implementation.