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U.S. House of Representatives Passes Clean Energy Bill
Potential opportunities for home performance contractors

 

Section 202: Building Retrofit Program of the ACESA establishes a Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) program.  Key elements of the REEP program include:

 

  • Energy Audit:  Support for a free or low-cost building energy audit that achieves at least a 20 percent reduction in energy use, by providing an incentive equal to the cost of the audit (but not more than $200).
  • Prescriptive Approach:  A total of $1,000 for a combination of measures for an audit designed to reduce energy consumption by more than 10 percent; a total of $2,000 for a combination of measures for an audit designed to reduce energy consumption by more than 20 percent.
  • Performance Approach:  A total of $3,000 for demonstrated savings of 20 percent, according to a performance-based building retrofit program; and $1,000 for each additional 5 percentage points of energy savings beyond those listed in the approaches above.

See http://ase.org/content/article/detail/5507 for a summary of the Act and to view details of Section 202: Building Retrofit Program.