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Tapping Efficiency in Homes

Roughly half of all efficiency and carbon emission reduction potential in North American and European buildings can be achieved through retrofit improvements to existing homes. Achieving the efficiency potential will require a new strategy to treat buildings collectively as a critical component of the energy infrastructure.

Through its publications, presentations, and webinars, RAP outlines the approaches needed to assure that home retrofits become more universally recognized as a least-cost strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions while producing economic benefits.

RAP also offers ongoing technical assistance to Energy Foundation grantees on energy efficiency program design and implementation. In a series of webinars, RAP hosted panels of experts to discuss the following topics:

Visit our events page to learn about upcoming webinars.  

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Residential Efficiency Retrofits: A Roadmap for the Future

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Residential Efficiency Retrofits: A Roadmap for the Future

Roughly half of all efficiency and/or carbon emission reduction in North American and European buildings can be achieved through retrofit improvements to existing homes. In this publication, RAP offers a roadmap to help policymakers and practitioners design and implement a comprehensive residential retrofit strategy. We present eight principles for success based on two decades of international experience, designed to achieve the level of energy savings that will be needed to address the challenge of climate change.

The Executive Summary of this report is available separately in English and German at: http://raponline.org/document/download/id/4424.

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Competitive Procurement of D3 Resources

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Competitive Procurement of D3 Resources

Providing feedback to the UK government’s proposed changes to electricity markets, RAP arranged for Chris Neme of Energy Futures Group and Paul Peterson of Synapse Energy Economics to present at this workshop organized by demand resource providers (the “D3 Expert Stakeholder Workshop”: demand reduction, demand response and distributed generation) in London. They reviewed lessons learned when the US opened up markets to allow efficiency and other demand resources to compete with supply alternatives. They concluded that demand resources can compete, be as reliable as supply alternatives, and make significant contributions to meeting consumers’ and the grid’s needs.

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Designing Capacity Markets for D3 Resources

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Designing Capacity Markets for D3 Resources

Providing feedback to the UK government’s proposed changes to electricity markets, RAP arranged for Chris Neme of Energy Futures Group and Paul Peterson of Synapse Energy Economics to present at this workshop organized by demand resource providers (the “D3 Expert Stakeholder Workshop”: demand reduction, demand response and distributed generation) in London. They reviewed lessons learned when the US opened up markets to allow efficiency and other demand resources to compete with supply alternatives. They concluded that demand resources can compete, be as reliable as supply alternatives, and make significant contributions to meeting consumers’ and the grid’s needs.

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