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Illinois Home Performance
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Organizations or Programs
Illinois Home Performance with Energy Star

This calendar provides Illinois Home Performance's participating contractors with information on upcoming residential energy efficiency trainings or events on topics such as HVAC quality installation and an introduction to building science.

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Illinois Home Performance
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Organizations or Programs
Illinois Home Performance with Energy Star

This free hotline is provided by Illinois Home Performance to help homeowners and energy professionals find quick answers to building science questions.

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U.S. Department of Energy
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Organizations or Programs
Denver Energy Challenge,
Efficiency Nova Scotia,
Energize Delaware,
Watt Watchers,
Empower Chattanooga,
Energy Upgrade California

This presentation includes examples of 16 programs' creative marketing materials.  The Better Buildings Residential Network held a March Madness tournament to find the most creative residential energy efficiency messages during March Peer Exchange Calls. Sixteen marketing campaigns were featured in a bracket challenge on the calls, and participants made their picks. Residential Network member the Fuel Fund of Maryland was chosen as the winning message for its Watt Watchers campaign.

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Arizona Public Service (APS) Company
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Organizations or Programs
Arizona Public Service (APS)

This example home performance scorecard shows how a contractor compares to anonymized top and bottom scoring companies, based on their quality of measured installations, scope of work, customer satisfaction, and energy savings achieved.

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Chris Baker, Arizona Public Service
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Organizations or Programs
Arizona Public Service (APS)

This presentation discusses process management improvements that Arizona Public Service made to streamline their program and advance home energy upgrades.

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U.S. Department of Energy
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Organizations or Programs
Illinois Home Performance with Energy Star

This report builds and expands off of previous research by collecting and evaluating data from 800 Illinois Home Performance (IHP) retrofits. This study investigates homeowner measure package choices in the Illinois Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® (IHP) program compared to cost-optimal choices determined through Building Energy Optimization (BEopt™) modeling software.

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Illinois Home Performance
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Organizations or Programs
Illinois Home Performance with Energy Star

Illinois Home Performance provides co-branding opportunities for participating contractors, including co-branding on program marketing materials.

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New Jersey Clean Energy
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Organizations or Programs
New Jersey Home Performance with ENERGY STAR

This presentation provides an overview of New Jersey Clean Energy's approach to contractor engagement, including contractor participation requirements, procedures for quality assurance and quality control, production incentives, training procedures, and an online contractor portal.

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Cynthia Adams, Local Energy Alliance Program,
Larry Earegood, Consumers Energy (MI),
John Schott, NYSERDA,
Gavin Hastings, Arizona Public Service,
Emily Salzberg, Washington State University Energy,
Adam Buick, Community Power Works (WA),
Bob Knight, BKi
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Organizations or Programs
Arizona Public Service (APS),
Community Power Works,
Energy Upgrade California,
Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP),
Michigan Home Performance with ENERGY STAR,
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA),
RePower Kitsap

Quick summaries of strategies various programs have used to improve the efficiency of delivering efficiency.

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Will Baker, Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
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Organizations or Programs
Illinois Home Performance with Energy Star
This presentation describes the Illinois Home Performance program and marketing strategy lessons learned.
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Maryland's Home Performance with ENERGY STAR
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Organizations or Programs
Maryland Home Performance with ENERGY STAR

On Maryland's Home Performance with ENERGY STAR website, homeowners can review their contractor and experience. These customer reviews, along with contractors' accreditations and services, are published on the website as part of each contractor's information page. Users of the website can search for contractors and sort the results based on homeowner ratings and by geographical location.

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Arizona Home Performance with ENERGY STAR
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Organizations or Programs
Arizona Home Performance with ENERGY STAR,
Southwest Gas,
Arizona Public Service (APS),
Salt River Project (SRP)

The AZ Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program (AZHPwES) requires that participating contractors demonstrate a high level of building science knowledge and maintain the highest standards of technical performance and customer service as described in the contractor requirements.