Efficiency First

Please join Efficiency First for our annual meeting on Friday, April 1, 2011  in San Francisco. The meeting will be conducted in coordination with the annual Affordable Comfort Conference (ACI) this year which is taking place at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. When: Friday April 1 , 2011 from 11 am-1 pm (PST) Where: [...]

From our family to yours, we wish the best this holiday season.

This past week, I got to visit our chapter out of Seattle, Washington otherwise known as Home Performance Washington. During my day long trip, I gained a better understanding of local utility programs and heard success and failures of different contractors. One member spoke to me about the need to work with real estate professions [...]

EXPANDING MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES In order to ensure that Efficiency First truly represents the entire Home Performance workforce and at the request of our regional chapter chairs; this past week the Board of Directors and the membership committee made some strategic steps forward. These steps include the creation of new member categories: Energy Audit Company members [...]

Join Efficiency First National Policy Chair Matt Golden and National Director Jared Asch this Friday, November 12th for an update on national Home Performance policy priorities. On the call, we will discuss the impact of last week’s elections, talk about the latest on national legislation like HOME STAR and energy efficiency tax credits and go [...]

At a Middle Class Task Force event held yesterday at the White House, Vice President Joe Biden announced a series of federal actions designed to grow the home energy retrofit industry and help American families save money on their  utility bills. The announcement follows an 18-month interagency effort to address recommendations the task force made [...]

Another great place to connect with home performance professionals: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Home Energy have teamed up to create Home Energy Pros. Please join the conversation. “Welcome to Home Energy Pros – the unique digital community by and for those who work in the home energy performance arena. It is no secret that [...]

Daniel J. Weiss of the nonpartisan Center for American Progress has published a thought-provoking analysis of how the Obama administration and the newly elected Congress can work together over the next two years on policy initiatives related to clean energy and climate change. “Now that Republicans have won control of the House and dramatically narrowed [...]

The Home Performance Resource Center (HPRC) has appointed two new members to its board of directors: Lori Collins and Amy Fazio. Lori is the Director of Program Development at Abundant Power and Amy is the Executive Director of ACI. Lori Collins Lori Collins is responsible for building out environmental financing programs for consumer and commercial [...]

With financial support from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Earth Advantage Institute and the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) are planning a multi-state pilot program focused on the Energy Performance Score residential labeling system, or EPS. This miles-per-gallon-style labeling tool was developed to enable home-to-home comparisons of energy consumption and related carbon [...]