Home energy assessments and upgrades can offer more than just energy savings benefits. They can make homes safer, enhance home value, and reduce health risks for residents. Better Buildings Neighborhood Program partners found that emphasizing the full range of benefits that upgrades offered helped...
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Your program will rely on its contractor base in order to succeed, so take steps to ensure that the capacity of the workforce is sufficient to launch your program and to maintain it as it grows. An evaluation of over 140 programs found that successful programs fostered and maintained relationships...
Early on, many Better Buildings Neighborhood Program partners focused on providing customers with a range of contractors to choose from, while providing contractors with access to customers. Customer feedback received by some programs, however, indicated that customers were confused or overwhelmed...
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New Mexico Energy$mart,
Energy Trust of Oregon,
Community Power Works
This summary from a Better Buildings Residential Network peer exchange call focused on strategies for contractor training.
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EnergySmart,
Bend Energy Challenge,
Energy Upgrade California
This summary from a Better Buildings Residential Network peer exchange call focused on community-based outreach and organizing strategies to market home energy assessments and upgrades.
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Austin Energy,
MPower Oregon
This summary from a Better Buildings Residential Network peer exchange call focused on introducing and building interest in multi-family energy efficiency.
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Efficiency Maine,
Indianapolis Better Buildings Program,
Enhabit
This summary from a Better Buildings Residential Network peer exchange call focused on gathering and communicating loan performance data.