A special feature of the 2011 RESNET Building Performance Conference will be a Comprehensive Retrofit Track. The track has been put together by the Building Performance Institute, Efficiency First, Home Performance with ENERGY STAR, and Affordable Comfort. Sessions that are being offered at the Comprehensive Retrofit Track are: Combustion Safety: Do No Harm Presenter: Joe
Obama Administration’s New “Recovery Through Retrofit” Program to be Featured at the 2011 RESNET Building Performance Conference
On November 9, 2010, Vice President Joe Biden announced the new Recovery Through Retrofit Program. The program has the following key features: New Home Energy Score survey for existing homes New FHA PowerSaver loan program to finance energy upgrades through the mortgage loan New Workforce Guidelines for home energy upgrades The 2011 RESNET Building Performance
Obama Administration’s New “Recovery Through Retrofit” Program to be Featured at the 2011 RESNET Building Performance Conference
On November 9, 2010, Vice President Joe Biden announced the new Recovery Through Retrofit Program. The program has the following key features: New Home Energy Score survey for existing homes New FHA PowerSaver loan program to finance energy upgrades through the mortgage loan New Workforce Guidelines for home energy upgrades The 2011 RESNET Building Performance
Vice President Biden Announces Federal Existing Homes Energy Upgrade Effort
On November 9, 2010, Vice President Joe Biden announced the Obama Administration’s new initiative to foster the improvement of existing homes energy performance. The initiative was developed as part of the Recovery Through Retrofit initiative launched in May 2009 by Vice President Joe Biden’s Middle Class Task Force to develop federal actions that would expand
Hope Still Alive for Extension of Energy Efficiency Tax Credits
RESNET Executive Director Steve Baden has recently returned from Washington, DC where he met with staff of the House Ways and Means Committee and Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME). There is still a chance that the new and existing homes tax credits could still be extended by Congress in the upcoming “lame duck session” after the
Senate Majority Whip Casts Doubt of Passage of Any Energy Legislation in This Congress
Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) cast doubt Tuesday on the prospects for energy legislation during an expected lame-duck session. “I think it’s a long shot,” Durbin, was quoted in CQ, noting that action on appropriations, taxes and an arms control treaty could consume most of the chamber’s time after the November elections. “It’s
When Selling Energy Efficiency, Don’t Say ‘Retrofit,’ Say ‘Upgrade’
The New York Times reported that according to a recent study conducted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that the truisms of “Give the people what they want,” “Know your customer,”and “Make it easy to do the right thing” works. For starters, the researchers said, don’t offer “audits” or “retrofits” — customers shy away from
