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Advancing Home Energy Labeling through Data Standardization
Julie Caracino, Director of Research & Standards at HPC
Making energy efficiency features visible at the time of home sale is a strategy with transformational potential. If homeowners know that the value of their home is increased by energy efficiency improvements, in the same way that it is enhanced by more visible amenities such as granite countertops, they will be much more likely to invest in those improvements. [continue reading]
How Cities Can Ensure Better Rentals for Everyone
Alisa Petersen
Today, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) released a new report, Better Rentals, Better City: Smart Policies to Improve Your City’s Rental Housing Energy Performance, which aims to inform city leaders on mechanisms that can boost energy performance improvements in rental housing that benefit tenants, landlords, community leaders, and the environment. [continue reading]
HPC18 - In Review
Lindsay Bachman, HPC Director of Marketing & Communications
At this year's national conference and trade show we networked, learned, laughed and grew! Thank you for sharing your week with us. [continue reading]
Pearl’s CEO Receives the Industry’s Highest Award
pearladmin
On April 24, 2018, Pearl CEO Cynthia Adams received the prestigious Linda Wigington Leadership Award at the 2018 National Home Performance Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Cynthia was introduced to the audience as a change agent, community advocate and industry mentor. [continue reading]
Highlights from the 2018 HPC National Home Performance Conference in Philadelphia
Jim Gunshinan
This year’s HPC National Home Performance Conference was a rich ground for learning, meeting old friends and new, and gathering good blog material! [continue reading]
The Silver Bullet to Zero Energy Affordability, by Paul Springer
Leslie Jackson
Hint: It’s not solar or storage... [continue reading]
Look for Us and Win: Faces of EE
Carol Harley, E4 the Future
Getting ready for HPC18? Plan to stop by the Faces of EE photo booth on April 24 to receive a FREE portrait by a top rated photographer. By participating, you will also be entered in a drawing to win a 2019 national conference registration. [continue reading]
The Business Sessions at the National Conference Will Help You Become a Leader in the EE Industry!
Bethany Dittmer, Director of Conference Education
The National Home Performance Conference is where home performance and weatherization professionals gather to gain skills and tools to improve their current job performance- and to take their careers to the next level. The Business tracks at this year’s conference will explore strategies to grow and diversify your home performance contracting business- and to become a leader in the industry. [continue reading]
Rebuild Green Expo, Santa Rosa: Advice Freely Offered, and well taken
Leslie Jackson
I was spending a month in Oregon (in an off-grid community of mud huts and organic food) when the fires began raging in Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino Counties. Driving home to the Bay Area, I put on my N95-rated dust mask in Fairfield (60 miles from Santa Rosa). Following my first reactions about my friends who live there, my thoughts were of the smoke’s contents. Mass-produced building materials, fiberglass, refrigerators, halogenated flame retardants, ... [continue reading]
PECO & CLEAResult to Host the 2018 HPC National Home Performance Conference & Trade Show in Philadelphia
Lindsay Bochman
March 21, 2018 – Philadelphia, PA – Today we are proud to announce that PECO and CLEAResult will host the 2018 HPC National Home Performance Conference & Trade Show at the Philadelphia Downtown Marriott, April 23-26, 2018. PECO and CLEAResult play important roles in the energy efficiency community and have demonstrated their commitment to home performance and weatherization through many years of involvement. [continue reading]
