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Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Programs: Benchmarking and Emerging Trends

Author(s)

Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility

Publication Date

2017

Organizations or Programs

Energize Delaware

This report consists of a literature review and in-depth interviews with subject matter experts in the Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES) program area. The goal was to compare Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility (DESEU) HPwES Programs with peer-programs across the United States. The report also identifies key metrics and emerging trends regarding program design.

Spring Forward: Top Strategies for Growing and Scaling Your Program (301)

Author(s)

U.S. Department of Energy

Publication Date

2016

Organizations or Programs

Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E),

New Jersey Clean Energy Program,

Energy Upgrade California

This summary from a Better Buildings Residential Network peer exchange call focused on strategies for scaling up and growing residential energy efficiency programs or contracting businesses. It covered PG&E's Residential Energy Efficiency Program's Pay for Performance (P4P) program. It also covered priority areas to consider when scaling up a program, such as contractor sales and marketing training and maintaining quality.

Community Organizing and Outreach

Author(s)

U.S. Department of Energy

Publication Date

2015

Organizations or Programs

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.

Reactions to the Residential Retrofit Roundtable Recommendations

Author(s)

Richard Faesy and Chris Kramer, Energy Futures Group (Prepared for the Energy Foundation)

Publication Date

2013

Organizations or Programs

Enhabit,

Michigan Saves,

BetterBuildings for Michigan,

Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP),

NeighborWorks H.E.A.T. Squad,

Energy Works,

Keystone Home Energy Loan Program (HELP),

Efficiency Maine,

Greater Cincinnati Energy Alliance (GCEA)

This report explores the approaches and research needs identified in the Building Retrofit Industry and Market (BRIM) Initiative through in-depth discussion with residential energy upgrade experts including a discussion of Marketing & Outreach and the program/contractor interface.

Green for All Energy Efficiency Toolkit

Author(s)

Green For All

Publication Date

2012

Organizations or Programs

Enhabit,

Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation (WECC),

EnergyWorks KC,

Baltimore Neighborhood Energy Challenge,

BetterBuildings for Greensboro,

Green and Healthy Homes Initiative,

Working Partnerships USA,

NYC Apollo Alliance,

Community Power Works,

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA),

RePower Bremerton,

Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP),

RePower Bainbridge,

Better Buildings Near Eastside Neighborhood Sweeps Program,

RePower Kitsap,

Michigan Saves,

Keystone Home Energy Loan Program (HELP),

EnergySmart,

Efficiency Vermont,

Long Island Green Homes,

Energy Impact Illinois,

Energize Bedford,

reEnergize

This practitioner-focused Toolkit for Residential Energy Efficiency Upgrade Programs was created by Green For All to assist new, established, and future energy efficiency programs launch and scale initiatives that can deliver the full promise of the green economy. It is intended as a practical resource that offers examples, tools, and templates that a program manager can deploy to implement a variety of aspects of their program including best practice briefs and summary documents, RFPs, contracts, and other program design and implementation templates that communities nationwide have used to create their own efficiency programs.

Leveraging Partnerships with Faith-Based Organizations

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Author(s)

Rev. Fletcher Harper, GreenFaith,

Paul C. Raver, Jr., Green Market Solutions,

Alexis Chase, Georgia Interfaith Power & Light

Publication Date

2011

Organizations or Programs

Georgia Interfaith Power & Light's Power Wise,

GreenFaith,

Maryland Home Performance with ENERGY STAR,

New Jersey Home Performance with ENERGY STAR,

PSE&G Whole House Energy Efficiency Program

This webcast explores how faith-based organizations and their partners have used energy efficiency as an organizing motivator to upgrade the institutional building and then members' homes.

Behaving Ourselves: How Behavior Change Insights Are Being Applied to Energy Efficiency Programs

Author(s)

Kira Ashby, Consortium for Energy Efficiency,

Monica Nevius, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority,

Bruce Ceniceros, Sacramento Municipal Utility District

Publication Date

2010

Organizations or Programs

Pepco Holdings' Home Performance with Energy Audits Program,

Energy Trust of Oregon,

Public Service of New Hampshire,

PSE&G Whole House Energy Efficiency Program,

FortisBC’s 20/20 Challenge Program,

Focus on Energy

This paper describes a wide variety of behavior change insights potentially applicable to the energy efficiency program context, provides examples of efficiency programs that have applied these insights, and explores some untapped opportunities to achieve energy savings through behavior change.