Compliance Planning Assistance New Hampshire
NEW HAMPSHIRE CPA SUMMARY
New Hampshire has already made great progress in advancing energy code compliance throughout the state through its New Hampshire Building Code Challenge initiative. Please see the The GDS Energy Code Compliance Roadmap for more. In the future, the state will continue to expand and refine its compliance activities through a newly formed working group of energy code stakeholders, the NH Energy Code Collaborative.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE AT-A-GLANCE
- 100 percent compliance with Standard 90.1-2007 would result in up to an 5.8 percent savings in commercial energy costs (Source: U.S. DOE)
- Two communities in New Hampshire have been designated as EPA non-attainment areas (Source: U.S. EPA
- New Hampshire received an ACEEE 2012 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard of 1.5 out of 2 for building code compliance (Source: ACEEE)
- Potential construction that could be impacted by adopting the model energy codes: 1,633 single-family housing units (in 2009), $1,191 million non-residential private construction value (in 2008)
- The state accepted $25.8 million in Recovery Act funding for energy efficiency policies (Source: U.S. DOE)
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