Mike Duclos will be speaking with Carter Scott of Transformations, Inc. about Transformation's entry in the EnergyStar Zero Energy Challenge on March 11 at the annual conference of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. 

 

This home has a HERS rating of -4, meaning the building energy simulation software indicates it will produce 4% more energy than it consumes on an annual basis. The sale price was less than $196,000.

 

Data will be presented on the 'passive survivability' of this home, it was without power for most of a week in the aftermath of the massive ice storm on December 12, 2008.

 

The session is in Track 5 in the 10:30 to 12:00 timeslot and the session title is "Getting to Zero Cost Effectively."

 

 

Also on March 11,  in Track 6 at 2:00 PM, Brian Butler of Boston Green Building, David Legg of National Grid, and Ken Neuhauser of Building Science Corp. will be speaking about Brian's Deep Energy Retrofit project on which Mike is an energy consultant.

 

 

Building Energy 2010 is a 'not to be missed' conference for professionals interested in energy efficient buildings.  

 

 

 

Mike Duclos of Energy Efficiency Associates will be speaking  at JLC Live in Providence, RI on how to 'keep score' of energy use in homes, including the topics of HERS, EnergyStar, Zero Net Energy, Passive House and the use of computer based energy modeling to reduce energy use in both new and existing homes.

 

 

 

Mike Duclos of Energy Efficiency Associates will be speaking on a panel moderated by Marybeth Smutts of the US EPA, on EnergyStar for Homes, and the EPA Indoor Air Plus program at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston.  http://www.rdcboston.com/ 

 

 

 

On page two of this article, Cador Pricejones of Byggmeister, Inc. relates the story of his Deep Energy Retrofit, in which Energy Efficiency Associates is an energy consultant.

 

 

 

Deep Energy Retrofit Workshop - Marc Rosenbaum, PE

 

Marc Rosenabaum will be giving his wildly popular Deep Energy Retrofit seminar in Brattleboro, VT on December 4, for more information click here. If you are considering a Deep Energy Retrofit, or just want to learn more about this technology, this is a not to be missed event.

 

 

Energy Efficiency Associates is an energy consultant for a two family home in Medford, MA, which has just been accepted into the National Grid DER Pilot, as well as Affordable Comfort, Inc.'s Thousand Homes Challenge.  

 

 

 

Passive House Imitator Article - Boston Sunday Globe October, 25, 2009 

 

Featured on the front page of the October 25 edition of the Boston Globe is an article on a home which was designed using some (but not all) of the techniques used in a real Passive House. Note that this home was not designed using the rigorous Passive House Planning Package software, nor was it designed by a Certified Passive House Consultant. This means that the actual performance is highly questionable. Certified Passive Houses have very consistent and comfortable temperatures, have extraordinarily clean air (ventilation requirements are in excess of the ASHRAE 62.2 standard used in the US) and are extremely durable as well. Don't be fooled by imitators, insist on genuine Certified Passive House.

 

Mike Duclos is a Certified Passive House Consultant.

 

 

National Grid Deep Energy Retrofit Pilot - Mike Duclos is a consultant for Boston Green Building's Deep Energy Retrofit of a three story two family home in Medford. This home has just been accepted into Affordable Comfort Inc.'s Thousand Homes Challenge.

 

 

 

The first two paragraphs explain the Green Communities Act and decoupling provisions of recent legislation. GCA passed last summer, decoupling has still not been fully implemented.

 

 

 

 

 

An up to the minute listing of energy related news.

 

"The American Clean Energy and Security Act"

 

 

 

Massachusetts cities and towns may soon have the ability to select a higher level

of energy efficiency as their building code.

 

Energy Efficiency Associates provides HERS rating services, and has provided consulting services to reduce HERS ratings for new homes to Zero and below (see Deep Energy Reduction), as well as reducing the HERS ratings of existing homes by as much as 125 points !

 

Energy Efficiency Associates has an in-depth understanding of how the HERS index is calculated, and therefore how to select the lowest cost changes to reduce the HERS number in both new and existing construction.

 

 

 

 

 

Mike Duclos is currently enrolled in the first Boston area PassivHaus Consultant Certification course. There are currently 14 Certified PassivHaus Consultants in the United States.

 

 

 

ACEEE Press Release, March 18, 2009 - Energy efficiency initiatives that reward consumers and businesses for reducing electricity and gas usage could result in utility bill savings of $168.6 billion, according to a report released today by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).   More.

 

 

 

 

Energy Efficiency Associates is prepared to support the design of new homes as well as the renovation of existing homes to achieve the highest levels of performance. Are you ?