Cited by 113Energy and Environment ImpactsBuilding energy efficiency and sustainabilityEnvironmental Justice and Health Disparities

A community-based approach to low-income residential energy efficiency participation barriers

Reames, Tony Gerard·2016·Local Environment

Abstract

Financial barriers are often cited as the principle impediment to the adoption of energy efficiency measures. Since 1976, the US Department of Energy's Weatherisation Assistance Programme (WAP) has provided state block grants for no-cost, low-income energy efficiency retrofits. Yet, millions of low-income American households lack affordable, reliable, and efficient energy access. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 boosted WAP's annual appropriation from $230 million to $5 billion, requiring states to explore innovate approaches to quickly increasing programme participation. Community-based energy programmes have shown success for overcoming various barriers and increasing participation in the adoption of energy technologies. This case study explores a community-based approach to scaling WAP-funded energy efficiency retrofits in a cluster of five urban, low-income, majority African-American neighbourhoods, known as the Green Impact Zone (GIZ), in Kansas City, Missouri. Findings from interviews with GIZ stakeholders suggest that local context is important to how energy efficiency participation barriers manifest. The targeted, community-based approach to WAP created institutional capabilities for increased recognition of participation challenges and facilitated opportunities for alternative solutions that may otherwise have been overlooked under the standard self-referral implementation of WAP. Lastly, effective implementation of WAP required policy workarounds t…

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1080/13549839.2015.1136995

Cites

59 of 59 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Reames, T. G.
Affiliations
University of Michigan (US)
Corresponding author
Reames, Tony Gerard
Venue
Local Environment
Published
2016-02
Volume
21
Issue
12
Pages
1449-1466
ISSN
  • 1354-9839 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-6711
OpenAlex
W2259551314
Cited by
113
References
59
Citations by year
2026: 13 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2
FWCI
4.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Local Environment (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Building energy efficiency and sustainability
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
Keywords
low-income households, energy retrofit, financial barriers, Kansas City, Missouri, self-referral, energy access

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review