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25K and Climbing!
The QPL is growing at a blistering pace! LEXINGTON, MA, July 11, 2013 – The international commercial LED lighting qualification program, DesignLights Consortium® (DLC) marked its biggest milestone yet...
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NEEP Staff-Hacks: Office Efficiency
Before reading this. Around NEEP HQ, we talk a lot about efficiency as it relates to energy, but what about efficiency related to other prevalent areas of our modern lives? This Staff-Hacks post dives...
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Vermont is Willing to Stretch for Efficiency
George Twigg of Efficiency Vermont NEEP’s guest-blogger George Twigg, Director of Public Affairs at EfficiencyVermont shares his perspective on stretch code implementation in Vermont and the importance...
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The Monster in My Basement: Tough Lessons in Building Science
Sweetums seems much less scary now that I’ve met the monster called mold. When I was a little girl, I was convinced that a monster lived in my basement. I was afraid to go downstairs alone in the...
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Ode to the Air-Source Heat Pump
In the distance, there is a soft humming of a compressor, the ticking of its meter, and the whirring of the fan. The warm blanket of air envelopes the room. The small metallic grating in the wall...
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Emergency Preparedness: What’s In Your Kit?
Just how much bread do people eat during a storm? The NYC subway under water, unprecedented flooding in Colorado, early season blizzards curtailing Halloween trick or treating – over the past few years...
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Energy Action Month: Shoe Box Submissions
Energy savings tips from NEEP staff. October is passing like the brisk wind that blows leaves from their heightened homes, colorful vestiges of spring and summer are littering the soon to be frozen...
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Reflections on Smart Grid and the Role of Energy Efficiency
I recently returned from the first-ever National Summit on Integrating Energy Efficiency and Smart Grid, where I experienced a series of Aha! moments. I’m still chewing on what I learned about how...
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The Spine-Chilling Secret Lurking Behind Your Electronics
Yes, Halloween is just around the corner, but we’re not talking about the types of vampires or phantoms that frequent late night television programming or beaming computer screens in dark living rooms....
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Apples to Apples, Data to Data
Cecily McChalicher, REED Manager The REED Program Year 2011 Annual Report (released this week) extracts the underlying stories and themes from REED’s prodigious pool of energy efficiency program data....
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December Energy Efficiency Policy Tracker
As 2013 nears its end, important work on energy efficiency policy and programs is still on going. Below are the important proceedings that NEEP is keeping an eye on. And keep an eye out in January for...
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Efficient Lighting Options Skate to the Top of Santa’s List
Hey Rudolf, is that an LED? It’s official: the holiday season is here. With snow on the ground in much of the Northeast and days still getting darker earlier, NEEP has some tips to help you brighten...
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National Grid’s Energy Efficiency Programs Enhance Rhode Island’s Economy
Courtney Lane, Senior Analyst, National Grid Rhode Island At a time when states are still struggling to recover from the recession, investment in energy efficiency is providing a much needed boost....
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Hanging Underwear Out to Dry?
I get it. No really, I do. You’re an environmentalist – well, so am I. You wanted to lessen your carbon footprint just like the rest of us – and I applaud that. So in a desperate attempt to decrease...
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A Breeze of Innovation, Air Source Heat Pumps Hold Potential
We all know what the outdoors can do to revitalize our health. We feel more connected, nourished, and energized after we venture out of our homes and take a deep, endless breath of fresh air, soak up...
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DesignLights Consortium Drives Innovation With Updates to the SSL Qualified...
The Solid-State Lighting (SSL) industry is poised to take a leap forward in energy efficiency and performance as Northeast Energy Efficiency (NEEP) updated the DesignLights Consortium®’s (DLC) SSL...
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Innovation and Regulation: A Winning Partnership Formula
It’s always interesting to witness a convergence of events that serve to highlight and illustrate an issue raised in the course of public debate. Such a convergence has occurred over the last two...
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More Data, Fewer Problems: REED Releases 2012 Data
NEEP’s Regional Energy Efficiency Database now includes program year 2012 data from nine jurisdictions in the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions! 300,000? That’s a lot of homes… The 2012 data reveals...
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Efficiency’s Climate Manifesto
Energy Efficiency has an impediment when it comes to being recognized as a climate solution – it lacks oomph appeal. It doesn’t have Solar energy’s dazzling solar arrays glinting in the brilliant...
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Our Net Zero Odyssey: Building a Modular, High-Efficiency Home
At long last, our net zero energy home is moving from conception to reality. Deciding to go for net zero energy was the easy part of building a home. My work at Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships...
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