Home Performance Policy Toolkit Now Available Online
Delivering On Our Promise is the title of a new Efficiency First PowerPoint presentation that lays out the nuts and bolts of Home Performance retrofitting and makes a convincing case for rethinking public funding and incentives for residential energy improvements. The presentation is designed to help all of us better explain the practical benefits of Home Performance remediation, and spread the word about public policy changes that will favor cost-effective performance-based solutions to our national carbon reduction and economic stimulus goals.
- The presentation begins by defining our industry and the problems we face, both economic and environmental.
- The next section emphasizes the need to tackle these problems with systematic performance-based solutions, not individual products or technologies.
- We then use concrete examples to illustrate the “Reduce Then Produce” approach to building retrofitting, and show how savings from affordable energy efficiency improvements can be used to pay for more costly renewable power generation technologies.
- Next we highlight the disconnect between sound strategy and current energy policy, and analyze the ways in which existing programs tend to favor a less effective approach to achieving our energy goals.
- The final sections show how a combination of performance-based incentives, consumer financing and sensible industry standards will deliver a sustainable, market-based solution to reducing residential carbon emissions.
Two versions of the presentation are available online at http://www.efficiencyfirst.org/take-action/, including a multimedia presentation with audio narration by Matt Golden, president of Efficiency First. We invite you to view the audio version online, then download the non-audio PowerPoint file and use it in your own presentations to colleagues, professional associations and government or community groups.
We also plan to create a more national version of the presentation – or a series of regional versions –– so we are actively looking for geographically diverse public policy and home retrofit examples. We invite all Efficiency First members to send feedback on the presentation and provide additional material to include in future versions.
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I am unable to download the “Delivering on Our Promises” presentation from the above link (I get an error 404-not found message). Please let me know how I might get a copy. Thank you.
Hello EF,
I would like to help the cause.
I have been in the energy saving lighting business for 20+ years, and estimate I have reduced about a billion watts. Starting in 1982 as a pioneer turn key distributor installer and then as mfr’s rep for 15yrs I educated, specified, designed and sold ES lighting to commercial, residential and government channels on benefits of retrofiting.
I have taken the CBPCA/HERS/BPI training and would like to get into the business selling, help educate the public and lobby the appropriate local county government agency officials for more efficiency $ money $ and promote the AB811 model.
What can I do to help?
Eric
Matt,
I’m sure that you have heard of the LI Green Homes Program here on Long Island New York by now. Anybody can find out more by going to the web-site.
http://www.thebabylonproject.org
Thanks
Rich
Thanks Matt,
This the kind of tool we need as we get a collective voice using the right terminology and story.
I now serve as the Sustainability Advisor for a Business Organization in Seattle WA (GSBA)with over 1000 membersn and to our Sustainable Seattle organization(s). I would love to present something to these groups that “each” individual can take to their homes to review or implement
Vicki:
We appreciate the support. Have you gone to Efficiency First’s Take Action Page http://www.efficiencyfirst.org/take-action/
It will allow you to download the recent Webinar in a presentable form. Contact me at info@efficiencyfirst if you have further questions.
Harris:
Sorry for the delay in response, I just saw this. Did you get the link working again. We corrected the error.
Rich:
Thanks for the information. We are in the process of trying to launch our New York State and Local Action Chapter, would you be interested in helping us get organized? If so contact me at jared@efficiencyfirst.org – thanks for the help.
Linda:
You should have seen this corrected by now. Is it working? If not please E-mail me at info@efficiencyfirst.org and I can try to help walk you through it.
Eric:
We appreciate your support. Check out our Web site under the “To Join” section. I will also contact you directly.