Julie Caracino On September 4, 2019, the Building Performance Association and Elevate Energy released the long-awaited update to their seminal 2013 report, Making the Value Visible: A Blueprint for Transforming the High-Performing Homes Market [...]

Madeline Salzman The Energy Department recognizes the value that data standards and systems bring to the world of building energy efficiency. As such, its Building Technologies Office (BTO) has helped fund a variety of resources for commercial [...]

Bill Keating Since the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority s (NYSERDA) Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES) program initiated its HPXML supported Express Contract workflow in 2015, nearly 8,500 projects [...]

Greg Thomas Digital data is so big that politicians are starting to talk about the need to break up the companies that manage and profit from much of our data, like Google, Facebook and Amazon. These companies know what to sell you and when [...]

Chris Baker On December 13, 2013, Arizona Public Service (APS) moved one of its first HPXML compliant Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES) jobs from the energy audit stage to the retrofit stage. Two participating home performance contractors [...]

Julie Caracino Last year was a great year for HPXML, the open data transfer standard for the residential energy efficiency industry. We are expecting continued growth in the adoption and use of HPXML for 2019. When HPXML was initially published [...]

Milton Matter When my fifteen-year-old son returned with a concert ticket in one hand and cash in the other, that s when I knew he would probably be ok in this world. He had decided last minute to tag along to go see Jason Isbell in concert. [...]

Dave Yeager Open standards provide the backbone for many markets and industries. The Internet itself could not exist without the collaborative, agreed-upon standards found in HTTP and TCP/IP. However, the adoption of open standards in the energy [...]

Noel Merket The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado is Transforming Energy from the way it is generated and used today to the systems that will power our world tomorrow. NREL is the only Department of Energy laboratory [...]

Debra Little, AjO We in home performance care about homes. Beyond providing healthy, comfortable shelter for humans, our urgent goal for homes across the globe is their transformation to zero carbon emissions. Access and visibility of home [...]

Julie Caracino, Home Performance Coalition This is the first of a new monthly series that will showcase the benefits of HPXML in scaling the home energy efficiency industry by organizations that use the data standard software companies, [...]