The Office of Energy and Planning (OEP) seeks assistance with Facilitation of the Kick-off Meeting of the New Hampshire Building Energy Code Compliance Collaborative. The Collaborative will advance building energy code compliance in the state, guided by recommendations from the foregoing NH Building Energy Code Compliance project, an OEP program which created the ...
The Guam Building Council is reviewing a proposal for a new energy code, titled the Guam Tropical Energy Code. The code follows a model from the International Code Council, but with some changes to reflect Guam's tropical weather. The proposed energy code for Guam would help ensure local buildings and facilities be more energy efficient. The code is being reviewed, and corrections or suggestions made by the public will be addressed. After the revisions the council will...
Calls are mounting for a Senate floor vote on the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2011 (generally referred to as the Shaheen-Portman bill). The bill introduces a variety of measures that encourage or facilitate energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings. These include a section that strengthens the Department of Energy’s authority to require that national model energy codes attain deep energy savings. Before becoming...
Climate Policy Initiative San Francisco (CPI SF) evaluates the impact and effectiveness of building energy codes using residential energy use data at the state level. By conducting a regression analysis comparing states with building energy codes to those without, CPI SF measures the realized energy savings of energy codes and compares them to existing estimates based on building simulation models.
...
Updated August 8, 2012
On June 18, New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch signed a bill (HB 137) into law ratifying a December 2009 rule promulgated by the New Hampshire State Building Code Review Board updating the New Hampshirte State Building Code. Since April 1, 2010, this state code has included the...
