The HPC Lobby Responds to the HUD PowerSaver Program
Not long after I linked to the LBL publication on the HUD PowerSaver loan program, EfficiencyFirst (EF), the home performance lobby, posted their recommended changes. If you recall, PowerSaver is part...
View ArticleThe Limited Value of DC Commercial Disclosure
The Washington, DC, commercial building energy disclosure law was great news when it passed in 2008 and I’m happy to see it coming in to effect. It will be interesting to see how it affects leasing and...
View ArticleDisclosure as Total Cost of Ownership
From Laura Stukel via GreenHomes America: For years, mortgage lenders have trained us to focus on PITI. We figure out how much home you should buy based on Principal, Interest, Taxes and Insurance....
View ArticleLink Exchange: Too Busy to Think
If anyone has noticed, I haven’t been very active here on DSS for a while. As it sometimes does, life has gotten in the way of my evening computer time (not that that’s a bad thing). With my brain to...
View ArticleKansas: Lessons Learned?
I was researching something on the energycodes.gov website the other day and came across a tidbit of information I wasn’t aware of. There are only a few states with no energy code on the books, one of...
View ArticleAround the World in 80 Labels
OK, maybe not 80, but BuildingRating.org has done a fine job gathering building energy labels from the EU and US.
View ArticleMore on Disclosure
From BuildingRating.org via GreenSource: Disclosure advocates like Lane Burt are bullish about the power of data: “Anytime you provide more info into the marketplace in a way that’s usable for the...
View ArticleASHRAE Calls for Standard EUI Metric
Given that the headline for this recent ASHRAE news brief reads “What is Energy Use Intensity? ASHRAE Seeks to Define, Educate”, this sentence may seem a bit contradictory: Given that there is no clear...
View ArticleASHRAE Publications: The Value (and Risk) of Information Sharing
Many readers recognize that I put a high value on the disclosure of building performance data. For all the benefits of information sharing, there are also downside risks. This is also true of...
View ArticleGoing in the Wrong Direction
Gotta love performance disclosures: According to the data, most newer buildings use more energy than older ones. This follows and is timely given my previous post: Russell Unger, executive director of...
View ArticleNYC Disclosure Update
From the NYT: In courting tenants over the last six years, 7 World Trade Center has trumpeted its gold LEED rating, an emblem of sound environmental citizenship. But when it comes to energy efficiency,...
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