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Middleton secures BlockPower mapping tool to prioritize neighborhood decarbonization; staff eyes ARPA and TIF funding
Summary
City staff reported completion of a BlockPower mapping tool license to identify high energy-burden blocks and prioritize heat-pump and efficiency work; committee discussed using the data to support federal grant applications and bridge funding for the Efficiency Navigator program as ARPA winds down.
Kelly, Middleton’s sustainability coordinator, told the committee the city has obtained a license for BlockPower, a mapping and analysis tool that layers public datasets (building age, heating fuel, census data, energy bills) to identify neighborhoods with high energy burden and to prioritize decarbonization strategies such as heat-pump retrofits.
Kelly said the tool is already available to staff (three logins) and can support grant…
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