Energy Efficiency

The Bay Area Regional Energy Network (BayREN) is sponsoring an online Earth Day program Thursday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.: Everything you should know about home energy in 30 minutes. Read More

BayREN is now assisting residents understand energy efficiency in their homes with a goal of saving energy. Read More

ABAG’s BayREN program has launched the Bay Area Energy Atlas. The tool, developed by the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA, in partnership with BayREN, is a large database of PG&E account-level electricity and natural gas consumption linked spatially to building characteristics and sociodemographic data. Read More

Residents in the Bay Area and across the state will have more access to energy-saving programs after the California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposed decision this month expanding Regional Energy Networks. Read More

Bay Area multifamily housing affordability issues have been eased for some through BayREN's multi-family energy rebate program – known as BAMBE. Read More

Yesterday, we shared the top Top 10 "greenest" vehicle list produced by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. Now here's the group's "meanest" in terms of impact on the environment for 2019 — the "dirty dozen." Read More

As the San Francisco Bay Area’s council of governments, ABAG supports regional planning and cooperation among the 101 cities and nine counties that make up the region. Generally, this has meant research, planning and projects related to land use, housing, environmental and water resource protection, and disaster resilience. What is perhaps not as well-known is that this broad portfolio of work also extends to energy and energy efficiency. Enter the Bay Area Regional Energy Network (BayREN), a collaboration of the nine Bay Area counties led by ABAG that implements energy saving programs on a Read More