The Community Partner Offering (CPO) provides enhanced incentives to affordable housing providers, community-based organizations, and other housing partners serving environmental justice communities. The offering provides these incentives to eligible organizations who own, manage, or work with eligible multifamily properties and are installing qualifying energy-saving equipment.

To be eligible to participate in the Community Partner Offering, participating organizations must verify that a participant’s site meets the following criteria prior to submitting enrollment forms:

• Property must receive utility service from Portland General Electric, Pacific Power, NW Natural, Cascade Natural Gas or Avista in Oregon.
• Customers must reside in multifamily properties to participate. Eligible multifamily properties are defined as properties with 5 or more dwelling units in a stacked configuration. This may include affordable housing, market rate, assisted living and campus living properties.
  • Housing sites with mixed building types, multifamily and  attached residential properties (i.e. fourplex, triplex, duplex and side-by-side properties such as townhomes) may qualify. Please contact the program for pre-approval before beginning any project that includes attached residential properties
• The property must be located in or serve at least one of the following environmental justice community categories::
  • Communities of color
  • Rural, remote or micropolitan communities
  • Communities experiencing lower incomes
  • Tribal communities
  • Coastal communities
  • Communities experiencing health inequities
  • Communities with limited infrastructure and other communities traditionally underrepresented in public processes or experiencing environmental and health hazards, including seniors, youth and persons with disabilities.

For questions regarding customer eligibility, contact our team by emailing multifamily@energytrust.org with the subject line “Community Partner Offering”

• Step 1: Attend a CPO onboarding session with a program representative to learn about the CPO program, review program forms and learn about program participation and your organizations expectations.
• Step 2: Determine if your multifamily property is part of an environmental justice community. Email multifamily@energytrust.org for help identifying whether your property meets the qualifying environmental justice communities’ criteria outlined above.
• Step 3: Submit a 300CPO Participation Agreement Form (provided after onboarding) for Energy Trust review and approval prior to starting your project. Properties may be ineligible to receive CPO incentives without first completing a Participation Agreement prior to the purchase and installation of qualifying energy-saving equipment or upgrades.
  Note: All enhanced incentive offerings require additional pre-approval from Energy Trust to qualify for incentives.
• Step 5: Use the CPO Program Information Sheet to estimate incentives and review equipment requirements.
• Step 6: Once your project is completed, submit  Form 320CPO-LMF: CPO Standard Incentive Application to multifamily@energytrust.org.