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Homeowners want a comfortable indoor environment whether they live in Buffalo, New York or Santa Fe, New Mexico, but constantly adjusting the thermostat to achieve comfort quickly gets old. With today’s consumers growing increasingly health conscious, many want to let more natural light in their homes for its ...

Sam Rashkin is a chief architect for the Building Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy. He's also one of our featured Legends of Home Performance.

Compelling. That’s what the stories behind the Solar Decathlon represent to me. Normally, I am focused on the current competition – working with the university teams and our partners to host the Energy Department’s largest public event showcasing student-built solar houses. But lately, I’ve ...

One look at the phone book or online listings of HVAC contractors these days and you will see that there are dozens, even hundreds of service companies vying for a share of the HVAC pie in one area. Considering the competition, it could get tough trying to stand out from ...

Julie Michals is the Director of Clean Energy Valuation at E4TheFuture. In this role, her focus is on initiatives that improve approaches to measuring and evaluating clean energy program implementation. Prior to joining E4TheFuture, she spent 14 years with Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, most recently as director of the ...

The Department of Energy's Housing Innovation Awards recognize the nation's top builders taking housing to the next level through our Zero Energy Ready Home program.

The stories of positive impact on the lives of people who receive assistance from LIHEAP is only one part of the contribution of LIHEAP to our communities. In 2010, as the economy was recovering from the recession, Stacie Bagnasco began what has now become a career at Central Coast Energy Services (...

The National Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (NREL) has been researching the penetration of the HERS Index Score in the U.S. housing market and discovered that in 2016, 22% of all completed new homes in the U.S. were HERS rated, according to David Roberts, NREL Residential Buildings Research Group Manager.

Since 2009, Connecticut utilities Eversource and United Illuminating have provided a stage for builders to compete and showcase their newly-constructed super energy-efficient homes through Energize Connecticut’s Zero Energy Challenge (ZEC).

Looking to get involved in the second annual Energy Efficiency Day on October 5th? Last year's first-ever national event was a big success, and we welcome your help in expanding the reach of this year's event. Energy Efficiency Day is a collaborative effort of regional and national organizations that promote ...

In 2008, California set a bold new goal for its homebuilders. The California Long Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan makes it clear that the state intends for all new homes to be Zero Energy homes in the future. Nine years later, De Young Properties is putting that plan into action.

RESNET and the New Buildings Institute have joined forces to promote net zero energy homes and develop an American consensus standard on a multifamily Energy Rating Index standard.

Download RMI’s latest report, An MPG for Homes: Driving Visible Value for Home Energy Performance in Real Estate.

The Jon Siemen Memorial Scholarship has been developed to honor the life, memory, and work of Jon Siemen, who passed away in March 2015. Jon started his career in weatherization in the late 1970s, when he began working at Community Action in Southwestern Vermont (BROC). Around 1993/1994, Jon and his brother started ...

Energy and water resources have long been recognized as interdependent, but policymakers have rarely addressed their interaction in any formal way. The energy-water nexus has increasingly attracted the attention of researchers and practitioners. Their goal is to better understand how water is used to produce energy and generate electricity; how ...

Creating a collaborative online community for home energy professionals, the Home Performance Coalition unites two premier communities into one dynamic, global social network.

HPC is proud to announce that the premier online community for the home performance and weatherization industry – the Home Energy Pros Forum – is now live and active.

Today, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) revealed a $33 billion market opportunity in the U.S. for new net-zero energy (NZE) homes that can be scaled across the country with a special application of residential property assessed clean energy (R-PACE) financing.

Water utilities have been slower to adopt smart meters and related infrastructure than their electric and gas counterparts. A smart water meter typically consists of a small device called a meter interface unit (MIU) attached to a traditional water meter to record and send detailed water flow measurements to the ...

For more than a decade studies have consistently shown that homebuyers want energy efficient features, but few are actually aware of the impact those features have on energy cost. The average U.S. homeowner spends more on energy than property taxes and insurance, but energy is the only one of ...

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