SPUR's analysis of the cost-effectiveness of various options for local government to reduce carbon emissions has gotten around. Our evaluation showing that in San Francisco, a low-interest loan program to finance home energy efficiency retrofits would be more cost-effective than new incentives for renewable energy installations, was featured in an on how to use stimulus funding. The presentation is accessible on And it looks like such a program is actually being , modeled after the wildly-popular Berkeley FIRST.
