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Guest Contribution by Kevin Galligan, Program Manager at Cape Light Compact When was the last time you paid attention to a street light?  Probably only when one is burned out, right?

The DesignLights™ Consortium (DLC), a project managed by NEEP, announced this week the addition of eleven new commercial SSL luminaire categories to its Qualified Products List (QPL).  The QPL now lists products in thirty categories.  New featured categories include Flood and Spot Lighting, Stairwell and Passageway Lighting, as well as eight retrofit kit categories.

A Guest Contribution By Robin LeBaron, Managing Director of the National Home Performance Council Good regulation, and ensuring that efficiency dollars are well-spent, is in everyone’s interest – from ratepayers to the small contractors that help bring efficiency projects to life. The problem is that in most states, the current applica

The DesignLights™ Consortium (DLC) Qualified Product List (QPL) (www.designlights.org) provides a central place for manufacturers to submit products for qualification and for utilities and energy efficiency program administrators to distinguish high performing products for use in their incentive programs.  Due to the rapid technological advances in the Solid State  Lighting (SSL) industry, the DLC continues to update and i

Add Philadelphia to the growing number of jurisdictions that have adopted laws requiring rating and disclosure of building energy performance. The Philadelphia City Council on Thursday voted unanimously to approve a new ordinance requiring energy benchmarking of large commercial buildings in the city.

NEEP has worked long and hard on whole-building, all-fuel energy efficiency solutions. Recently the Boston Globe ran Natalie Hildt's opinion piece in its online section called The Podium. Below is the full text. It’s a heartbreaking but all-too familiar story: hardworking, self-sufficient family falls on tough times. Wife is disabled, husband loses good-paying job.

ACEEE today released its 2011 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard, and Massachusetts topped the rankings.

The coming federal residential lighting standards continue to be a major topic in the news. NEEP has been reaching out to policymakers and the general public to demonstrate the immense benefits to consumers that will result when these standards are implemented.