Research and Publications
Our advocacy work includes written research, policy papers, and comments that provide recommendations to policymakers and bring important issues to their attention. Browse the Association's position below on a variety of topics.
HPC Comments on the 2030 Target Scoping Plan Update, November 2016
As advocates for residential energy efficiency, the Building Performance Association is writing today to emphasize that promoting energy efficiency policies in existing homes is a key aspect to carbon reductions strategies and to bring your attention to a Report we released last week A Policymaker’s Guide to Incorporating Existing Homes into Carbon Reduction Strategies and Clean Power Plan Compliance. This report outlines ways in which existing homes are a key aspect to carbon reductions strategies, with details on how they complement the Clean Power Plan (CPP) and how it is imperative that residential energy efficiency become an integral part of state and local carbon regulation strategies.
HPC Signed On With Other Efficiency Groups Ask for Shaheen-Portman Language in Energy Bill
Key stakeholders—including energy efficiency advocates, businesses, and trade associations, along with representatives of the homebuilding industry—negotiated this language. This stakeholder engagement process was robust, and many accommodations and concessions that endure today in the Senate provisions were made to address concerns of the homebuilding industry. We are very concerned that weakening these provisions would unravel this hard-fought compromise and severely jeopardize the opportunity to enact meaningful energy legislation this year.
HPC Comments on Six Maryland Public Service Commission Cases + First Half of 2016
The Building Performance Association’s general comments on Public Service Commission Cases 9153, 9154, 9155, 9156, 9157, 9362 and general comments on the 1st Half of 2016 seek to highlight three fundamental issues that should inform the Commission as it continues to develop energy efficiency guidance for Maryland’s utilities and formulate a three-year strategic plan.
HPC Comments on EPA’s Proposed Rule on the Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP) Design Details, September 2016
HPC releases comments on EPA’s Proposed Rule on the Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP) Design Details along with three other home performance industry leaders; the Building Performance Institute (BPI), The Energy & Environmental Building Alliance (EEBA) and Efficiency First (EF). Download
HPC & Efficiency First Comment on EPA’s Proposed Clean Energy Incentive Program, December 2015
HPC and EF thank the EPA for this opportunity to provide comment on the CEIP. This important program has the opportunity to help transform the way that save energy in this country and give homeowners the opportunity to be a part of American’s clean energy solution.
HPC Comments On and Summarizes Actions We Can All Take to Scale Our Industry, November 2015
From Market Innovation Forum 2015
EPS, HERS, HES…OMG!: BPI-2101: Standard Requirements for a Certificate of Completion for Whole-House Energy Efficiency Upgrades
Presented by Robin LeBaron at the 2012 ACI National Conference.
Where Does All the Data Go?
Presentation by Robin LeBaron on the new BPI-2100 and BPI-2200 data standards.
Why HPXML is Your New BFF
An overview and benefits of HPXML. Presented by Robin LeBaron, David Wolpa (EnergySavvy) and Cynthia Adams (LEAP) at the 7th Annual Rocky Mountain Utility Efficiency Exchange in Aspen, CO.
BPI-2101-S-2013 Standard Requirements for a Certificate of Completion for Residential Energy Efficiency Upgrades
This data sheet identifies a standard set of data elements for certificates that document the completion of a whole-house energy upgrade (HEU) or individual energy conservation measures (ECMs) in existing homes.
Addendum A: Changes to Standard Vocabulary of Data Elements
A list of recent changes to the BPI-2200-S-2013 Standard for Home Performance-Related Data Collection data sheet.
BPI-2200-S-2013 Standard for Home Performance-Related Data Collection
The data collection standard is designed to facilitate communication and the exchange of information and data among all actors in the home performance industry by providing a standard vocabulary for describing terms related to buildings, energy consumption and energy conservation measures (ECMs).
BPI-2100-S-2013 Standard for Home Performance-Related Data Transfer
BPI-2100 is designed to facilitate communication and the exchange of information and data among all actors in the home performance industry by providing an extensible mark-up language (XML) standard for transferring information related to whole-house energy efficiency upgrades.
Overview of Residential Energy Efficiency Programs
An overview of the universe of whole-home energy efficiency retrofit programs in the U.S. The study provides information on 126 programs across the U.S. that promote a whole-home approach to residential energy efficiency through subsidies, technical assistance and other resources, and provides basic data about a number of key program characteristics.
HPC & E4TheFuture Testify at House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Fiscal Year 2018 Department of Energy Funding for Residential Energy Efficiency Programs
Brian T. Castelli, President & CEO of the Building Performance Association, along with Stephen Cowell, President of E4TheFuture; Tom Carter, Executive Director of Efficiency First and Larry Zarker, CEO of the Building Performance Institute (BPI) testify in front of the House Appropriations Committee: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development offering our collective support for DOE’s residential efficiency programs and initiatives.