1. Northwest Home Certification Programs
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
2017 Q1 Roundtable
Northwest Home Certification Programs
Neil Grigsby, NEEA
Matt Christie, TRC
Shannon Todd, TRC
Innovation to Action

2. Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
Agenda
Updates from NEEA
BetterBuiltNW.com
Program-Government Partnerships Guide
Axis: New and Upcoming Features
NW Utility Programs
Updates from NW Home Certification Programs
Innovation to Action

3. Who We Are: The Alliance

4. Priorities for Residential New Construction
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
Priorities for Residential New Construction
Encourage reliable energy savings with modeling protocols
Develop advanced building science trainings
Provide marketing support
Improve and streamline data collection
Encourage reliable energy savings with modeling protocols – leads to new utility program design using home energy modeling to achieve performance targets…supports builder flexibly and ingenuity…program flexibility…and program resources
Trainings - focusing on whole home strategies and emerging technologies
Provide marketing - to increase the awareness of the benefits of energy efficiency
Data - common data metrics and data collection methods
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5. Residential New Construction
Home certification programs drive code change
2014: NW ENERGY STAR introduced
Increased market capability to support adoption of advanced building practices
: NEEA extends support to additional home certification programs
NWESH introduced to the region in
Increased market capability to support the adoption of advanced building practices and technologies -
Developed key market actors (rater, provider, builder), training organizations, technical support, data collection, consumer awareness

6. Home Certification Programs in the Northwest
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
Home Certification Programs in the Northwest
Regional Programs
National Programs
Built Green
Earth Advantage
Energy Performance Score
RESNET HERS
ENERGY STAR Certified Homes
DOE’s Zero Energy Ready Homes
National Green Building Standard
Passive House
LEED for Homes
Living Building Challenge
Innovation to Action

7. Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
BetterBuiltNW.com
Innovation to Action

8. BetterBuiltNW.com Featuring NW home certification programs
News: Program awards, partnerships, updates
Events: Trainings and conferences
Professionals: Development in progress

9. Programs-Government Partnership Guide
Objective 1: Identify examples of successful home certification program partnerships with local governments
Research on types of partnerships
Nationwide partnerships data collection
Objective 2: Develop a coordination framework for programs and local governments
Data collection through interviews
Case study analysis
Step by Step method for partnership development

10. Programs-Government Partnership Step-by-Step

11. Programs-Government Partnership Pilots
In 2017, NEEA plans to facilitate three pilots between local governments and programs
Work with utilities and programs to identify city candidates
Find Partnership Lead at each government
Facilitate interactions between governments and programs
Develop resources for public use

12. NEEA Data Consolidation
Direct use of Axis for program administration and data collection
Consolidate data through API connectivity

13. Axis Updates Recently Released
RESNET Provider QA metrics dashboard including Rater of Record, RFI, and QAD tracking
Generation of RESNET Standard Disclosure
Rater inspection tasks (preliminary scheduling functionality)
EPA quarterly reporting aggregation
Ekotrope support (bi-directional API)
NGBS new and existing home certification data visibility

14. Axis Updates In Testing Phase
RESNET Registry submission
Built Green Tri-Cities deployment
Earth Advantage Home Certification tracking
Auto-population of Appraisal Institute G&EEA and local appraisal forms
Field inspection data collection workflow
NEEA RTF Calculator integration

15. Utility Program Progress Update
NEEA and is working to implement a new utility incentive program model for single family homes
Currently seeking early adopters
Utilities may partner with certification programs
BPA is developing a multifamily program model
Based on top performing home certification programs

16. Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
PROGRAM SNAPSHOT Let’s share highlights from recent activities and discuss what’s coming up next.
Innovation to Action

17. Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
Program Snapshots
MF Program spec development
2015 Washington State Energy Code Adaptations
Axis for Built Green Tri-Cities
ENERGY STAR v3.2 for Washington
Brice Lang is at the EPA!
RaterPro launch
Utility Grade savings task force
Water Efficiency Rating (WER) launch
LEED and DOE ZERH coordination
PassiveHouse conference
Innovation to Action

18. Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance Thank you for participating!
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Neil Grigsby Matt Christie Shannon Todd
Thank you for participating!
11:45 Neil wraps up
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