Brendle Group worked with the City of Greensboro, North Carolina to develop an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy (EECS) and a Sustainability Action Plan for the community. Collaborating with City staff and a Community Sustainability Council (CSC), Brendle Group developed and evaluated energy efficiency and conservation strategies for City operations and the community including building energy retrofits, micro-hydro applications at the City’s water treatment facility, the potential for solar PV applications and proposed changes to the City’s comprehensive plan.  Through increased energy efficiency and conservation opportunities, Brendle Group identified annual cost savings to the Greensboro community of $450,000. 
 
Building off extensive community outreach and development work by the CSC, Brendle Group developed a comprehensive Sustainability Action Plan that provided polices and strategies for energy, land use and transportation, waste reduction, water conservation and other topic areas, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  The Plan quantified greenhouse gas emissions as well as costs and cost savings for each package of policy measures so that policies could be evaluated on both a quantitative and qualitative basis.