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.

Author:

Chris Neme

Meg Gottstein

Blair Hamilton

Url:

http://www.raponline.org/document/download/id/918

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.

Author:

Chris Neme

Paul Petersen

Url:

http://www.raponline.org/document/download/id/657

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.

Author:

Chris Neme

Synapse Energy Economics

Url:

http://www.raponline.org/document/download/id/648

RAP Principal Meg Gottstein was asked by E3G, a leading NGO on energy efficiency financing and the Green Investment Bank proposal in the UK, to communicate best practices for large-scale uptake of residential energy efficiency retrofits in the context of financing the UK “Green Deal.” This briefing paper reflects E3G’s thinking on this issue, and acknowledges RAP’s role in its development.

Url:

http://www.raponline.org/document/download/id/845