Action Plan to Accelerate Strategic Electrification in the Northeast
States and communities in the Northeast are adopting goals and implementing policies to aggressively cut carbon emissions by the year 2050 in order to reduce the impacts of climate change.1 Given the…
Building Energy Codes for a Carbon Constrained Era: A Toolkit of Strategies and Examples
Buildings consume about two-thirds of the United States’ power supply and produce about 40 percent of carbon emissions. Buildings that are being constructed now will have a considerable impact on our…
The Smart Energy Home and Cross-Promotional Opportunities in Energy Efficiency
As residential efficiency programs are looking for new ways to bring in participants, the individuals purchasing smart home devices offer a potential new group of customers for greater efficiency.…
The Smart Home Interface: A Tool for Comprehensive Residential Energy Efficiency
In this brief, NEEP outlines the potential combination of two currently independent trends in residential energy efficiency: (1) the rise of the smart energy home and (2) residential benchmarking and…
The Contractors Guide to the Smart Home
The buzz around the concept of a “smart home” has been growing for years, but most homeowners have only recently started incorporating smart products into their homes. While these products and…