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EA01: C-PACE Quick Reference for Energy Auditors

C-PACE is the financing mechanism your audit feeds. This is the short version: what it is, why the structure matters to your work, and where your report sits in the chain. The point that changes practice is the term. A five-year equipment loan forces every measure to justify itself on a five-year payback; a twenty-year assessment does not, which makes envelope work, full mechanical replacement, and controls integration — the measures you routinely flag and routinely watch get deferred — exactly the measures this structure supports. Includes the five-step dependency chain, read in reverse: nothing downstream is stronger than the baseline it rests on.

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