Model Progressive Building Energy Codes Policy

Progressing Efficient Building Energy Codes

NEEP's Model Policy gives a set of interconnected recommendations aimed at ensuring that states adopt progressively more efficient building energy codes. It also offers recommendations for improving the rate at which buildings and dwellings comply with the code and measuring the actual building energy performance of buildings and dwellings to see how they compare to predicted energy savings.

The Policy is for code officials, advocates, utilities and other energy codes related stakeholders in creating and/or adopting building energy policies that will lead to large-scale energy and carbon emissions savings in the built environment across the Northeast.

Key Concepts

The stretch code provides municipalities the option of using the current statewide code or adopting the more stringent Informative Appendix. Adopting the Informative Appendix will help municipalities qualify for funding under requirements spelled out in the Green Communities Act.

The Informative Appendix is an element of the Model Progressive Energy Codes Policy recently released by Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnership (NEEP). The policy offers recommendations to adopt progressively more efficient building energy codes, improve the rate at which buildings and dwellings comply with the code and measure the actual energy performance of buildings and dwellings. It provides guidance to states in creating and adopting building policies that will lead to large-scale energy and carbon emissions savings across the Northeast.

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