The 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?
Read MoreAdvocacy Update: EM&V 2.0
The conversation at the CPUC this month has been focused on Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification or as it is more commonly referred to
Read More3 Myths About Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
Our Executive Director, Charley Cormany lives and works in Sonoma. In last months blog, he recounted his experience with the Northern California wildfires. During the fires and the dealing with the aftermath, he noticed misconceptions many people have about air quality and home performance.
Read MoreFire, Smoke, and N-95s
When there is a wildfire the air quality suffers greatly. Unfortunately, people affected by the Northern California fires had to learn about PM2.5 and N95s ratings on face masks. Perhaps this presents the opportunity to further educate the public on other building science principles and practices too.
Read MoreAdvocacy Update: September 2017
California is well on the way to having a residential performance based rebate program.
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