Division of Energy
Services
Business, Industry, and Agriculture
- Assists businesses, agricultural operations and industries to better understand energy use and energy-efficiency measures that save money and improve their competitive position
- Advocates renewable energy development and use throughout the state
- Provides consistent and accurate information about the impact of business and industry energy use throughout the state
- Explores and promotes financial incentives for businesses, agriculture and industries to encourage the use of energy-efficient technologies
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Residential
- Promotes energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy in Missouri homes through sharing of information and partneships among diverse interests
- Manages the statewide Low-Income Weatherization Assistance Program; works in partnership with 18 community-based agencies to increase home energy efficiency, reduce utility bills and improve health and safety of citizens served
Public Benefits of Low-Income Weatherization
- Reduces energy consumption and utility bills for those served, particularly the elderly, the disabled and families with small children
- Keeps money in the local economy
- Allows more families to pay energy bills and reduce utility arrearages
- Improves comfort, health and safety for low-income households
- Reduces environmental pollution associated with generation of electricity and production of fossil fuels
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Schools and Local Governments
- Guides local governments and public schools in developing and implementing energy-efficiency and renewable-energy projects
- Helps finance energy-efficiency projects through loans from the division's Energy Revolving Fund
- Teams with community projects such as Clean Cities in St. Louis and Kansas City to increase the use of cleaner-burning alternative fuels for vehicles
- Information on Energy Efficiency Loans to Schools and Local Government is available here
State Government
- Helps state agencies perform energy audits, accomplish energy-efficiency retrofits, and create energy-efficiency plans for state buildings
- Provides information about cost-reducing, energy-efficiency strategies to the state
- Helps state agencies incorporate fuel-efficient and alternative-fuel vehicles into their fleets
Energy Policy and Analysis
- Develops, analyzes and recommends policy options on various energy subjects
- Develops proposals to use energy efficiency and renewable energy as part of the solution to environmental problems
- Provides data, information and analysis of energy use, sources, prices, supply and air emissions related to energy production and use to state leaders and the public
Public Information and Education
- Disseminates extensive consumer and technical energy information
- Informs the public about opportunities in energy efficiency and renewable energy to save money and help the environment
- Provides communications expertise for the division's informational efforts
Additional Public Information and Education
Division Links
Contact
Division of Energy
P.O. Box 176
Jefferson City, MO 65102
800-361-4827
573-751-3443
E-mail: energy@dnr.mo.gov