By Chase Macpherson |
Last month, NEEP kicked off its annual Summit in Baltimore, MD against a backdrop of growing concerns around energy affordability, load growth, and pressures on energy efficiency program funding. One of the first sessions, “Big Loads, Big Opportunities,” wove all three themes together in a discussion of how energy efficiency, demand flexibility, and virtual power plants can enable new large load…
By Tasneem Osman |
Massachusetts has emerged as a national leader in high-performance residential construction. The Commonwealth uses a unique three-tiered energy code framework that allows communities to advance building performance significantly beyond the minimum state standard. For residential projects, the technical requirements of the Stretch and Specialized code are rigorous. This technical complexity…
