Research and Reports

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.

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

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.

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).

This position paper introduces a new framework efficiency screening designed to address the challenges of current efficiency screening practices and realizing the full potential for cost-effective energy efficiency.

A list of recent changes to the BPI-2200-S-2013 Standard for Home Performance-Related Data Collection data sheet.

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 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.