 As you'll see from this edition's articles, over the past few months NEEP has continued the work of making energy efficiency matter, count and happen. There has never been more awareness of and commitment to making energy efficiency a ‘first fuel' across the Northeast.
As always, NEEP is at the front lines of this endeavor - we hosted our Annual Summit in March where a diverse group met to discuss how the power of efficiency is being unleashed across the Northeast through the vision and commitment of state, community, and business leadership. The conversations at the Summit were designed to inform efforts to meet aggressive energy savings goals, and we're excited to see where these ideas will lead. We're also excited to watch efficiency happen in our own office - our recent move gave NEEP the opportunity to design a space that allows us to ‘walk our talk' from high-efficiency lighting, occupancy in an Energy Star labeled building, and a robust building recycling program.
As you read through NEEP Notes you'll learn about the leading-edge work of NEEP, our Partners and Sponsors to advance efficiency - including collaboration to introduce new cool products, set new minimum efficiency standards, develop common methods to measure and evaluate program impacts, and adopt the latest in building energy codes. We also invite you to read about the work that our groups are doing - from commercial lighting to high performance buildings to public policy, NEEP staff are busy putting the pieces together to reach the goal of accelerating energy efficiency.
Thanks for reading!
Sue Coakley
Executive Director
| 2010 Summit: Accelerating Energy Efficiency |
 On March 30 & 31 NEEP hosted its fifth Annual Northeast Energy Efficiency Summit in Boston. Despite record breaking rain, the two day event drew a record crowd just shy of 500 program administrators, policy makers, business leaders and efficiency advocates who convened to discuss the 2010 theme of ‘Delivering on the Promise.' The Summit featured an in-depth conference, two topical workshops, efficiency exhibits and awards presentations honoring regional organizations that have demonstrated their commitment to energy efficiency.
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NEEP Moves into an Office of the Future!
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NEEP is so pleased to have moved into our new greener office space at 91 Hartwell Avenue in Lexington, MA. NEEP's Director of Financial Services, Jim Godkins, Sr. Program Manager, Carolyn Sarno and the rest of our design team worked closely with building operators, Boston Properties, and NSTAR and National Grid to develop an architecturally beautiful and energy efficient office space that allows us to ‘walk our talk' even more.
An exciting feature of our new space is a state-of-the-art lightingsystem, comprised of only CFLs or LEDs, that is 46 percent more efficient than what the Massachusetts State Energy Code requires. To enhance the efficiency of our lighting system even further, automatic occupancy sensors in the lighting controls help us control energy use when a room is not in use.
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Change Is in The Air!
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 Over the past few months, the Regional Deployment Initiatives (RDI) group focused much of its work on a restructuring strategy initiated at the end of 2009.
The restructure resulted in a name change; Regional Initiatives is now Regional Deployment Initiatives, a name which emphasizes its focus on execution and implementation.
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