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Should the home performance industry be driving a focus on promoting health benefits as a way to stimulate growth and potentially spur market transformation?

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Performing a residential energy audit can be time-consuming and not always get you a new client. Are you giving away a service for free?

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The combination of the reduced cost of solar panels along with advances in energy efficiency means the potential for ZNE is growing more attractive.

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It’s time to embrace the future and stop relying on “fire” as the go to energy solution in our homes. How can we ensure the homeowner’s safety, save utilities money,…

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The energy efficiency industry in California is tangled with regulation. How can this regulation be better enforced, without wasting time and money?

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The California Home Performance industry is starving for workers. How did we get here and what are we going to do about it?

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Comprehensive industry tools like HERS have their place. But if we need a way to measure home efficiency at time of sale, a simpler tool would be better.

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California has made a lot of progress in its energy saving goals, but there’s one big roadblock to bigger gains in residential energy efficiency.

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Trump thinks global warming is a hoax, wants to promote coal and gut the EPA. Does energy efficiency have a chance in this new era? We think it does.

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PG&E has sent out an RFP to create a residential pay-for-performance pilot program for energy efficiency. Is it more of the same, or a game changer?

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