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CEC promotes the transformation of the marketplace for clean energy technologies and practices. Our ongoing programs include:
Energy Outlet
CEC's Energy Outlet is a retail and educational space, offering the latest and greatest energy and conservation products. Consumers, contractors, and business owners can access resources and products in order to decrease their energy use, improve their efficiency, and increase their use of clean energy.
Customers will have access to CEC’s own experts, including on-staff commercial and residential energy auditors. Monthly and bi-weekly classes in the Energy Outlet’s Green Classroom will be available to the public on topics such as building weatherization, solar power options, utility bill reduction, and more.
The result is a one-on-one conversation with each customer who walks in the door, helping each of them meet their own unique needs. From CFL’s to home energy audits to solar information and referrals, the Energy Outlet takes you to the next level.
Rebuild Ypsilanti
Rebuild Ypsilanti is part of Rebuild Michigan, a network of community partnerships, made up of local organizations and businesses, that save money by saving energy. These voluntary partnerships, working with the State of Michigan Department of Energy, Labor, & Economic Growth's Energy Office, choose the best ways to improve the energy efficiency of commercial, government, and apartment buildings. Rebuild supports them with business and technical tools and customized assistance.
To date, over 540 organizations across the State have become Rebuild partners. Enrolled partners have pledged more than 100 million square feet to energy efficiency projects and to date have invested more than $69 million in efficiency projects, with first year savings totaling more than $9 million.
Solar America Cities
The Ann Arbor Solar America Cities program works to integrate solar technologies into city energy planning, zoning and facilities, to streamline city-level regulations and practices that affect solar adoption by residents and local businesses, and to promote solar technology among residents and local businesses.
Michigan Energy $ense
CEC's Michigan Energy $ense program is designed to encourage comprehensive, whole-house energy retrofits in existing homes, as well as the construction of new homes built to the Energy Star TM standard. Energy Star TM is a government backed program that helps businesses and individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency.
This program leverages the nationally recognized Energy Star TM name, marketing tools, and technical excellence to help achieve cost-effective energy savings in the residential housing market.
Ann Arbor Area Clean Cities Coalition (AACC)
AACC is a public/private partnership formed to initiate the infrastructure and increase demand for alternative fuel fueled vehicles within Washtenaw County, Michigan, with the goals of improving air quality, reducing dependence on foreign oil, and empowering the businesses and residents of the community to move towards creating a more sustainable community.
To learn more about AACC, visit the program page.
Biofuel Infrastructure Grants Program (BIG)
The Biofuels Infrastructure Grants Program provides funds to Michigan public service stations to install or convert fuel delivery systems to sell high blend ethanol E85 and/or biodiesel blends of B20 or higher. The goal of this program is to increase biofuels infrastructure and availability throughout Michigan. The BIG program was initiated by P.A. 274 which was signed into law July 7, 2006. The program is funded through a grant from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth's Energy Office.
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