What You Missed At The ZNE Retreat
It’s amazing how many energy efficiency conferences and workshops have surfaced recently. The Redwood Energy Zero Net Energy Retreat, which takes place twice a year, is one of the best conferences. Our Executive Director Charley Cormany, with help from EFCA’s Board Member Debra Little give their perspective of the conference for this month’s blog.
Read MoreOn-The-Job Experience: Why Electrification Is Better And Cheaper
Sean Armstrong is the Managing Principal of Redwood Energy, one of the nation’s leading ZNE design firms and an Efficiency First California board member. His argument for electrification is based on his extensive experience in multifamily housing. The conventional wisdom is that when it comes to home heating, gas is cheap. So why is the…
Read MoreTEDx HPC Conference 2018
This year, the Home Performance Coalition hosted it’s first annual TEDx event at its national conference in Philadelphia. The room was packed, the BYOB was flowing and the energy was lively.
Read MoreThe Real Heroes Of Home Performance
When you become a business owner you quickly learn the true cost and value of employees. Good ones are hard to find, especially in tight labor markets where there are more jobs than bodies. California is experiencing a significant labor shortage in the trades right now.
Read MoreThe Best Energy Source For Our Future
When it comes to energy, society is at a crossroads. Our existing supplies are heavily based on fossil fuels, a limited and dirty solution. There are alternatives to the current system, but we need to be realistic about both the technical challenges and opposition of entrenched interests to this necessary change. What are our options?
Read MoreWhen Good Incentives Go Bad
It’s a common practice to try to encourage or change behavior with incentives. What happens when you encourage the wrong behavior?
Read MoreAdvocacy Update: The State of California
We’re taking a departure from the goings on at the state capital and will instead focus on some events that are occurring across the state of California. The landscape for energy efficiency incentive programs in California is changing. Late last year, a program in Southern California announced a funding cap for the year 2018. The…
Read MoreGet Fire Out Of Our Buildings
In today’s world fire still provides most of the heating needs in our dwellings. Why are we still burning things at all and how can we change it? It turns out the answer is pretty simple and already a part of everyday life: electricity.
Read MoreWill Data Save Home Performance?
Having a good way to measure efficiency is valuable to the home performance industry for many reasons. Until recently though, measuring energy efficiency has been easier said than done. Fortunately, there are a number of new innovations in that are changing the efficiency measurement game, creating many new opportunities for the industry.
Read MoreIs Health The Future of Home Performance?
There are always positive and negatives sides of every story. We ask this questions again: should we be driving the home performance industry to focus on promoting health benefits as a way to stimulate growth and potentially spur market transformation?
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