CEC announces $1.5 million contract award to advance efficiency in buildings. Parts of project may leverage COMNET.
The California Energy Commission announced their intention to award PECI and its team of subcontractors including Institute for Market Transformaton (IMT), New Buildings Institute (NBI), and Architectural Energy Corporation (AEC), the $1.5M consulting contract to provide technical support for the development of a comprehensive energy efficiency program to achieve greater energy savings in the state of California’s existing residential and nonresidential buildings. This contract will provide technical support to aid the Commission in the development and implementation of the following:
- Needs assessments for energy efficiency improvements in residential and nonresidential buildings;
- Technical guidance for Phase Two of the Home Energy Rating System (HERS II);
- A Building Energy Asset Rating System (BEARS) for nonresidential buildings;
- Residential and nonresidential rating and disclosure programs;
- Residential and nonresidential efficiency improvement programs;
- Approaches to reduce barriers to efficiency financing and tax credits for newly constructed affordable housing;
- Streamlined permitting processes for alterations of existing residential buildings;
- Approaches to evaluate and recommend improvements to the program; and
- Additional program components requiring technical expertise.
COMNET Commercial Buildings Energy Modeling Guidelines and Procedures.
This manual offers guidance to building energy modelers, ensuring technically rigorous and credible assessment of energy performance of commercial and multifamily residential buildings. It provides a streamlined process that can be used with various existing modeling software and systems, across a range of programs.