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. Likewise, customers who are investing in home efficiency retrofits may be an untapped audience for…
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 labeling efforts. Currently, states, efficiency programs, and other stakeholders are pursuing…
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 devices may seem gimmicky—with their smartphone-based app interfaces and goofy names —many of them can…
Claiming Savings from Smart Thermostats: Guidance Document
This document provides guidance for program administrators, evaluators, regulators, and other efficiency stakeholders to take a data-driven approach to claiming savings from Smart Thermostats. Efficiency programs, pilots, evaluations, and whitepapers throughout the country have documented…
Establishing Common Understanding for HEMS in Efficiency Programs
This document is designed help establish some common criteria and understanding for Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) and Technologies being integrated into efficiency programs. Specifically, what we put forward is meant to assist program administrators, who are providing program funding…