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Evaluation & Data Collection – Develop Resources

Identify and implement systems and tools that will support data collection and data quality necessary for effective evaluation.
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Financing – Develop Evaluation Plans

Establish an evaluation plan that will allow you to determine how your financing activities are impacting the market.
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Program Design & Customer Experience – Overview

Design a residential energy efficiency program that integrates marketing and outreach, contractor coordination, incentives, financing, and program evaluation to provide customers with the products and services they want through a customer-centric process.
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Financing – Overview

Ensure that your program’s customers will have access to affordable financing, so they can pay for the services you offer.
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Evaluation & Data Collection – Overview

Develop evidence-based insights into your program’s performance through third-party process and impact evaluations. Learn how to develop effective data collection strategies and timely evaluations to identify important program achievements as well as opportunities for making program improvements.
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Contractor Engagement & Workforce Development – Develop Implementation Plans

Develop contractor engagement, quality assurance, and workforce development plans that include strategies, workflow, timelines, and staff and partner roles and responsibilities.
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Evaluation & Data Collection – Develop Evaluation Plans

Identify the right questions to ask, appropriate metrics to collect, and the processes needed to initiate third-party impact and process evaluations.
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Contractor Engagement & Workforce Development – Make Design Decisions

Solidify your program strategy and decide which customers you will focus on; what products, services, and support you will provide; and how you will partner with contractors and others to deliver services to your customers.
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Contractor Engagement & Workforce Development – Overview

Support and partner with the workforce who will deliver your program’s energy efficiency services by understanding their capacity, recruiting contractor partners, enabling technical training and business development support, fostering clear communication, and refining program processes over time, in partnership with your workforce.
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Use compatible formats for data sharing and reporting, and work with partners to implement standard data exchange protocols

Many Better Buildings Neighborhood Program partners found that it was critically important to use compatible formats for data sharing and reporting with partners. Aligning data formats and collection plans with national data formats (e.g., Home Performance XML schema (HPXML), Standard Energy...
Tips for Success

Overcoming the Home Upgrade Tower of Babel with HPXML

Author(s)
Dale Hoffmeyer, U.S. Department of Energy,
Gavin Hastings, Tierra Resource Consultants,
Julie Caracino, NYSERDA,
Cynthia Adam, Pearl National Certification,
Greg Thomas, Performance Systems Development
Publication Date
2015

Home Performance (HP) XML is transforming the way home energy upgrade programs collect and transfer information from one software system to another, leading to improved contractor satisfaction, lower administrative costs, and technological advancements in the home performance industry. This presentation provides an overview of HPXML and its benefits, and discuss how the data standard is facilitating technological and process improvements among home energy upgrade programs and software developers in the United States.

Resource - Topical Presentations

HPXML Implementation Possibilities and Experiences

Author(s)
U.S. Department of Energy
Publication Date
2015

This is a recording of a webinar from August 2015. Home Performance with ENERGY STAR hosted a panel on HPXML; the value it can bring to businesses and implementation methods. Interested organizations can use this resource to learn more about HPXML and its potential benefits.

Resource - Topical Presentations

HPXML Online

Author(s)
Home Performance Coalition
Publication Date
2017

Home performance extensible markup language (HPXML) is a national Building Performance Institute Data Dictionary and Standard Transfer Protocol created to reduce transactional costs associated with exchanging information between market actors. This website provides resources to help stakeholders implement HPXML and stay updated on its development.

Resource - Tools & Calculators

Building Energy Data Exchange Specification (BEDES)

Author(s)
U.S. Department of Energy
Publication Date
2016

The Building Energy Data Exchange Specification (BEDES, pronounced "beads" or /bi:ds/) is designed to support analysis of the measured energy performance of commercial, multifamily, and residential buildings, by providing a common data format, definitions, and an exchange protocol for building characteristics, efficiency measures, and energy use.

Resource - Tools & Calculators

HPXML Implementation Guide

Author(s)
ENERGY STAR
Publication Date
2015
Organizations or Programs
Home Performance with ENERGY STAR

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR’s new HPXML Implementation Guide helps energy efficiency program administrators and software developers overcome fragmented data exchange by integrating HPXML (home performance extensible markup language) into their operations and products. HPXML is a set of common definitions for the attributes of home systems based on Building Performance Institute data standards and the computing language that facilitates the quick and easy transfer of home-related data between different markets.

Resource - Publications

Residential Home Upgrades in California: Process improvements, HPXML, IT software

Author(s)
Torsten Glidden, Build It Green
Publication Date
2016
Organizations or Programs
Energy Upgrade California

This presentation discusses how Energy Upgrade California streamlined its program through improvements in its HPXML and IT software.

Resource - Program Presentations & Reports

Deploying HPXML: Building a Framework for the Future

Author(s)
Gavin Hastings, Arizona Public Service
Publication Date
2014

This presentation describes how APS' decision to switch to flexible requirements for energy assessment and modeling software and data transfer using HPXML standards reduced administrative time and improved contractor satisfaction.

Resource - Program Presentations & Reports

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Program Components

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  • Financing (2)
  • Contractor Engagement & Workforce Development (4)

Program Design Phases

  • Overview (5)
  • Strategy Development (3)
  • Planning (8)
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States or Territories

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