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The current issue of Home Energy magazine features an article by Efficiency First board member Doug Donovan and Jared Asch, the association’s national director, summarizing a number of alternative financing options now that the Federal Housing Finance Agency has forced most of the nation’s Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing programs to suspend operations. The [...]

Is your company hiring? Here is a resource for you: Efficiency First’s online job posting board. Click here to begin posting your job openings. The job board is open to the general public to post resumes and browse job openings. The job opening list is populated exclusively with employment offers from Efficiency First members. We hope [...]

CHICAGO Last week the Home Performance Resource Center and Efficiency First joined the Clean Economy Development Center to host recipients of the DOE Better Building Program and additional energy efficiency grant winners. There are hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding that the attending organizations will need to allocate and spend over the next [...]

According to a report distributed today via E&E Publishing’s Greenwire news feed, a bipartisan group of Senators may be preparing to introduce a stand-alone bill on Tuesday that would establish a national renewable electricity standard (RES) for U.S. utilities. The report cites an unnamed lobbyist who supports RES legislation indicating that Sen. Jeff Bingaman, chairman [...]

What our nine Best Practice working groups have been working on.

In a move designed to create tens of thousands of living-wage jobs for American construction workers sidelined by the recession, the U.S. House of Representatives has revived the Home Star Energy Efficiency Loan Program previously struck from the House version of the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010. The Rural Energy Savings Program Act, [...]

We all know that the Home Performance industry is still young and growing, which means that many consumers have never heard of who we are and the work that we do. And let’s face it – our companies are not like advertising giants Apple or Anheuser Busch – who have virtually unlimited funds for marketing. [...]

Efficiency First and the HOME STAR Coalition Applauds Efforts of the House of Representatives on Rural Energy Star: H.R. 4785 – Rural Energy Savings Program Act and the Inclusion of the Home Star Energy Efficiency Loan Program

Efficiency First has partnered up with some really fantastic companies that offer generous discounts exclusively to our members on training, tools, office supplies, job referrals, business insurance and much much more.

For those of you who could not make the HOME STAR Conference Call With Congressman Peter Welch this morning, click on the link below to hear a recording of the call: Listen to the recording.