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2025: A Year of Energy Savings Through SNEW

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Brittney Gutierrez

Project Manager, Climate & Energy

As the 2025 year comes to a close, Sierra Business Council would like to highlight all of the important and energy-saving work the Sierra Nevada Energy Watch (SNEW) team has helped to facilitate and accomplish this year. The SNEW team worked diligently to assist public agencies and small businesses in accomplishing their energy efficiency goals and saving on utility bills.

2025 Accomplishments: 

  • Completed 8 building energy benchmarking reports for local public agencies. These benchmarking reports provide important insight into a building’s energy usage over time and show areas of improvement and inefficiencies. 
  • Facilitated energy audits of 22 small businesses and public agency buildings and connected them to energy saving programs like PG&E’s On-Bill Financing (OBF). 
  • Completed 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories. GHG inventories help public agencies identify key emissions sources, measure progress over time, and inform strategies for emissions reduction. 
  • Developed and published case studies to highlight completed projects and their associated energy and bill savings.
  • Developed and published over 20 blogs and newsletters aimed at providing energy efficiency resources, funding for energy projects, and information on upcoming events. 

 

The SNEW team will continue to carry on this important work into 2026. If you are interested in learning more about SNEW’s free services and finding out how to save energy in your building, please contact us at snew@sierrabusiness.org 

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California’s 2026-27 legislative session wrapped up September 1 after a turbulent final week of negotiations over wildfire policy, funding, and the state budget. While a last-minute proposal on wildfire liability ultimately stalled, the Legislature did restore and increase funding for climate resilience through Proposition 4 and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF)—a meaningful outcome for Sierra communities amid a challenging state budget year.

The final plan includes $329.5 million for wildfire and forest resilience through Prop 4 and $118 million for wildfire prevention through GGRF. While these investments are an improvement over the June budget, wildfire resilience funding remains near historic lows, with no clear plan for sustained investment in future years.

Read more about the final budget, Prop 4 and GGRF allocations, and what’s next for wildfire and climate resilience in the Sierra.