Commercial Buildings and Technology Initiative

Strategy Development & Deployment

A critical function that NEEP increasingly fulfills for sponsors involves development of regional, coordinated strategies. By leveraging new opportunities that extend beyond the typical types of products and strategies, NEEP can share its regional expertise to encourage consistency among its sponsors.

As the energy efficiency industry responds to rapidly evolving policy and market guidance, it is more critical than ever that the players pursue regional uniformity to enable the large upstream market actors, whose businesses extend beyond any one sponsor's geographic boundaries, to easily and effectively collaborate with the region.

As NEEP's High Performance Buildings efforts evolve to include buildings in multiple sectors, significant coordination can be expected with the Commercial Buildings and Technologies Initiative. Similarly, extensive coordination to building energy rating policy development within the NEEP Progressive Building Energy Code project can be expected.

Strategic issues within the scope of the Initiative include:

• Integration of all fuels within programs
• Advanced rooftop equipment (heating and cooling)
• Existing HVAC equipment maintenance and performance-oriented servicing
• Whole buildings best practices
• Regional strategy for existing buildings
• Commercial shell and thermal opportunity scoping

NEEP's internal coordination with the Solid State Lighting Initiative in development of a qualified products list process and deploying it within the Initiative exemplifies these efforts.