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Location Efficiency: The Energy Efficiency Opportunity of “Where” Is Here
Author: Eric Mackres How does where we build our homes, businesses, and transportation infrastructure impact our energy use? A recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report attempts to tackle...
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Neighborhood Outreach for Energy Efficiency: Finding Homes that Need It and...
Author: Eric MackresIn the world of energy efficiency, market segmentation and other methods of generalization are used to design programs and marketing. While every home is different, just as each...
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Chicago House Hunters Poised to Become More Savvy Homebuyers
Author: Rachel CluettChicago is making an existing energy-use disclosure ordinance more user friendly for citizens. In the 1980s, the city passed a law allowing potential homebuyers and renters access...
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Legislation As a Team Sport: Can Shaheen-Portman Score a Win?
Author: Lowell UngarIn the Winter Olympics that just concluded in Sochi we saw amazing examples of coordination and synchronization in event after event, from bobsled to ice hockey to pairs figure...
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50% Energy Savings in the Residential Sector? Deep Energy Retrofits Are...
Author: Rachel CluettThe need for innovative ways to reduce residential energy use is growing. States are setting increasingly aggressive energy savings targets for utilities and program...
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The “whole elephant” method for commercial building retrofits
Author: Sameer KwatraCommercial buildings consume 20% of the total energy used in the United States---more than the energy consumed by all the nation’s cars, trains, and airplanes put together. A...
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Tracking a home's energy fitness
Author: David RibeiroIf you’ve gone for a jog or visited your neighborhood gym recently, you may have noticed new accessories popping up amid the sea of iPhones and earbuds. There’s a good chance that...
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So you think you can aggregate data: The reality show of energy usage
Author: Virginia Hewitt After work, to unwind, I like to turn on the TV. There is just something about watching people escape from zombies or write 1960s advertising slogans that takes my mind off my...
View ArticleAre building codes the key to unlocking zero net energy buildings?
Author: Jennifer Thorne AmannA zero net energy (ZNE) building is a home or commercial building that on average produces as much energy as it uses, achieved through energy efficiency and renewable...
View ArticleMy New Year’s resolutions: get SMART, travel more, use less energy
I start thinking about my New Year’s resolution earlier than most. I like to think ahead and know what I’m getting into before committing. This year I could go to the gym more, eat fewer hamburgers, or...
View ArticleCongress just passed an energy efficiency bill
Author: Steven Nadel Today, the House of Representatives passed S. 535, a modest energy efficiency bill sponsored by Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). This follows Senate passage a...
View ArticleEnergy-Efficient Affordable Housing Can Dramatically Improve Residents’...
Patrick Kiker Energy-efficient manufactured homes, commonly known as mobile homes, can save consumers $4.6 billion in energy costs over the next 20 years according to a new study released today by the...
View ArticleACEEE Statement on the Passage of the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of...
Today 191 Republican and 184 Democratic members of the House joined to pass the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2014 (HR 2126), sponsored by Representatives David McKinley (R-WV) and Peter Welch...
View ArticleEnergy-Efficient Affordable Housing Can Dramatically Improve Residents’...
Energy-efficient manufactured homes, commonly known as mobile homes, can save consumers $4.6 billion in energy costs over the next 20 years according to a new study released today by the American...
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Why Increasing Information on a Home’s Energy Use Will Help Homebuyers Make...
What if people could have access to a piece of valuable information that they don’t currently receive about the house they are considering for purchase? What if this could happen with very little...
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