Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Archives

Date	Name	Audience	Description
February 2006	Sample Appliance Survey Form	Home Performance Analysts	Performance Systems Contracting Appliance Survey Form.
February 2006	Sample Data Collection Form	Contractors, TREAT Users	Performance Systems Contracting Data Collection Form.
July 2005	Energy Efficiency Powers Performance Systems	Contractors, Programs and Evaluators	Performance Systems owner and president Greg Thomas speaks about the past, present, and future of the company.
May 2005	Greening of a Home Performance Contractor	Contractors and Programs	This article from Home Energy Magazine examines the expansion of Performance Systems Contracting into renewable energy and green building, driven by local competition and consumer demand and the resulting success and growth.
August 2004	Charting the Territory	Programs and Evaluators	This peer reviewed paper reports on the survey work and the resulting development of a comprehensive set of protocols for home performance contractors. The paper also looks briefly at how the total resource cost test impacts home performance programs.
November 2003	PIER Contractor Study	Contractors and Programs	The first national survey of home performance contractors’ business and technical practices. Funded by the California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research program.
August 2003	Welcome to the Machine	Programs and Evaluators	This peer reviewed paper formally applies Total Quality management thinking to residential energy savings and shows how systems can support this process.
April 2003	Keeping Score	Contractors, Programs and Evaluators	This article applies Total Quality management thinking to residential energy savings and home performance process for contractors and shows how systems and software can support this process.
December 2000	PG&E Report	Programs and Evaluators	This paper developed for Pacific Gas & Electric looks at home performance with market transformation perspective. Of particular interest is a section on market barriers. This paper was a follow on to the CEC Whole House Credentialing report.
July 2000	CEC Whole House Contractor Credentialing	Programs	This paper developed for the California Energy Commission examines the state of the practice of home performance and looks at how credentialing systems can be used to promote whole house contracting. The credentialing system proposed here was adopted by the Building Performance Institute. Also of interest is a section on managing the liabilities associated with credentialing.
March 2000	Building Your Business	Contractors and Programs	This article in Home Energy Magazine focuses on how you build a successful home performance business.
September 1999	Home Energy Ratings Sweep the Nation, Almost	Contractors, Raters and Programs	A review of the energy ratings industry and how energy raters can expand the value provided by the ratings by including diagnosis of home performance problems.
November 1997	Working the Utility/Contractor Connection	Contractors and Programs	Article in Home Energy Magazine on the first Home Performance program in the country, a utility program developed by Greg Thomas for Niagara Mohawk.
December 1995	Conference Christens Home Performance Industry	Contractors and Programs	As covered in this report from Home Energy magazine, Greg Thomas announces an effort to form a Home Performance industry, as president of Affordable Comfort Inc.
March 1994	Residential Energy Services Market Transformation	Programs and Evaluators	Paper for the Affordable Comfort Conference Selected Readings on developing a market for home performance services developed for Affordable Comfort Conference based on comments provided to the New York State Public Service Commission