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represent potential that is underrepresented in both the current offerings of PG&E programs and underrepresented in the past CPUC potential studies. Increased Use of Market Ready Funding and Financing Products. A CCA may be an effective platform from which to increase awareness and use of a broad array of market ready funding and financing mechanisms, some of which are designed specifically to achieve sustainability goals. Expanding the use of these mechanisms has several benefits, including an existing market capacity to lend, along with the potential for very cost effective delivery of energy efficiency without the need for rebates or other financial incentives. In general, funding and financing may be defined in two categories including 1) infrastructure and public facilities projects and 2) customer market financing. The following provides a brief description of each, and a list of over 50 currently available financing and funding tools can be found in Appendix B: • Infrastructure and Redevelopment Public Funding and Financing. These are the mechanisms that will be selected by city planners and financiers to accomplish large redevelopment and water projects and generally include grant funding, land based financing tools such as tax increment financing, and usage fees. • Residential and non-residential funding and financing. These are the tools that will be used to implement sustainability projects in the residential and non-residential facilities that are included within priority areas, and community wide in both existing building and new construction applications through these mechanisms. These include commercial loan products such as home equity lines and utility on bill products, targeted federal agency products such as VA or HUD loans, state agency products such as SAFEBIDCO and COIN, and tax increment financing products such as PACE financing. More aggressive use of these market ready funding and financing programs to implement sustainability projects may offer the opportunity for a CCA program that leverages private capital in lieu of rebates to achieve various County sustainability goals. High Opportunity Programs and Projects (HOPPs). In October 30, 2015, an amended scoping memorandum expanded the `Rolling Portfolios' proceeding scope to include the implementation of AB 802. It established a process specifically for addressing"High Opportunity Programs or Projects" (HOPPs). HOPPs expanded to target increased energy efficiency of existing buildings, including"stranded potential"via AB 802's new approaches to valuing and measuring savings. HOPPs are intended to focus on interventions (and associated intervention strategies and savings measurement regimes that program administrators could not previously undertake). The following outlines some of the HOPPs currently being proposed or deployed as pilot programs at the time of this analysis. • The Residential Pay-for-Performance(P4P) HOPP (PG&E). This pilot seeks to develop a scalable model for residential retrofits that leverages rapidly emerging market actors and products while minimizing administrative and implementation costs. The program will seek out parties referred to as "Aggregators"who will either directly or through a network of contractors perform energy efficiency interventions in customers' homes with the goal of maximizing measureable savings. Aggregators may consist of existing energy efficiency market participants, such as Property Accessed Clean Energy(PACE) loan providers, smart thermostat vendors, vertically integrated contractors,program implementers, and/or new F-25 l -