Research and Reports

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.

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 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.

From Market Innovation Forum 2015

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

Despite the growth for energy efficient characteristics in existing homes, energy efficiency improvements are not typically recognized or valued in the real estate transaction for three major reasons. - By Julie Caracino, Director of Research and Standards, July 2016 Data Standards

Public Utilities Fortnightly article on how energy efficiency can help with 111(d) compliance, and how cost-effectiveness reform is crucial for realizing energy efficiency's full potential.

A presentation which discusses the National Efficiency Screening Project (NESP) and the Resource Value Framework (RVF). Presented by Tim Woolf (Synapse Energy Economics, Inc.) at the 2014 ACEEE Summer Study in Pacific Grove, CA.

The National Efficiency Screening Project (NESP) developed recommendations for using the Resource Value Framework (RVF) to improve cost-effectiveness testing. NESP, coordinated by NHPC, is a group of organizations and individuals that are working together to improve the way that utility customer-funded electricity and natural gas energy efficiency resources are screened for cost-effectiveness.

Given by Tim Woolf of Synapse Energy Economics, Inc. at the 2014 ACEEE Summer Study in Pacific Grove, CA. Cost Effectiveness Testing

The National Home Performance Council released a report which argues that the smart grid and home performance industries would benefit from a clearer understanding of the connections and points of intersection between whole-house upgrades and detailed information about energy consumption. The paper also identifies four ways that the smart grid and home performance industries could mutually benefit from further integration.

The National Home Performance Council (NHPC) with Efficiency First (EF) released comments to the forthcoming CO2 emissions requirements for existing power plants in support of the inclusion of energy efficiency as a compliance mechanism for meeting state requirements for carbon dioxide standards under Clean Air Act Section 111(d).