The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has just released a Tentative Implementation Order for the second phase of Act 129.
The Order does not create any specific funding or savings targets for multifamily housing, but does recognize the arguments of several groups, including RHLS, that multifamily housing is an area where energy-efficiency investments should be targeted.
The Order states that “multifamily housing [should] be given special emphasis and consideration within the government/educational/nonprofit sector”. The PUC also “encourages the EDCs [electric distribution companies] to recognize the available potential for energy savings present in multifamily housing and develop strategies and programs to sufficiently address this opportunity within their Phase II EE&C plans”.
Read the Tentative Implementation Order.
Read RHLS’s Comments to the Secretarial Letter (PDF).