Congratulations to the Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Award Winners

The Housing Innovation Awards support the Department of Energy’s commitment to help harness American ingenuity to commercialize and deploy cutting-edge technologies, as well as to promote improving the energy efficiency of the U.S. housing stock.

Housing Innovation Awards

Green Energy Improvement Chicago, Illinois

Customer Relations and Sales & Marketing

Illinois Home Performance with ENERGY STAR

They have hosted over 50 private house

parties and over delivered 200 presentations

to local businesses and government officials

They’ve completed nearly 100 Illinois Home

Performance Silver Certifications for their

clients

Isaac Home Energy Performance Rochester, New York

Industry Leadership

NYSERDA

Isaac University – a program for soft skills

development and technical training with

experts in lab and field settings

The Lean on Me mentoring program for new

employees that produces quantifiable

improvements – skills are acquired

faster and employee turnover decreased

Neil Kelly Home Performance Portland, Oregon

Industry Leadership and Customer Relations

Energy Trust of Oregon

They are implementing a Quality

Management System plan to ensure

customers are satisfied with the service,

professionalism and communication of

the contractors

They have a three star rating for

maintaining a high quality assurance

score and exemplary customer service

from Energy Trust of Oregon

Quality Insulation Installers Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Industry Leadership and High Energy Savings

Wisconsin Focus on Energy

Their average energy savings per

project was over 50 site MMBtu in

2013, more than double the national

average

They received the 2013 Highest

Energy Savings per Project award

from Wisconsin Focus on Energy

Awardees are helping families save money by saving energy in innovative ways including working with utilities to offer rebates to customers, creating more efficient products, and launching efficiency projects.

Seven Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Sponsors and Partners were recognized for their outstanding contributions to the program

ENERGY STAR Awards

Columbia Association Columbia, Maryland

Excellence in Promotion

Key accomplishments include:

• Generating a 93 percent HPwES assessment-to-upgrade conversion ratio

when home performance improvements are recommended.

• Launching the Home Energy Efficiency Upgrade Cooperative with its

partner, Civic Works, to provide support and guidance for homeowners

navigating the HPwES project process.

AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company Shreveport, Louisiana

Partner of the Year

Key accomplishments include:

• Generating approximately 1.7 gigawatt hours (GWh) in energy savings,

including an installed measure conversion rate of 93 percent, up 22

percent from 2013.

• Experiencing 1,300 percent growth from 2013 to 2014 by completing

1,026 HPwES projects in 2014.

Efficiency Vermont Burlington, Vermont

Partner of the Year

Key accomplishments include:

• Sustaining high participation in the HPwES program as a result of

adjustments to the program in 2013 for a complete market turnaround in

2014.

• Launching a program that includes the Department’s Home Energy Score

with each HPwES project, a first step towards quantifying the value of

energy efficiency upgrades.

Illinois Energy and Recycling Office at the Department of

Commerce and Economic Opportunity Springfield, Illinois

Partner of the Year

Key accomplishments include:

• Leading 71 participating contractors to complete 3,023 HPwES projects

across Illinois, each project earning Silver or Gold IHP Certificates in the

process (a 58-percent increase in involved contractors and a 92-percent

increase in projects).

• Collaborating with Ameren Electric Gas, Ameren Illinois Electric,

Commonwealth Edison, Nicor Gas, North Shore Gas, and Peoples Gas to

offer a robust statewide HPwES program.

Arizona Public Service Phoenix, Arizona

Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence

Key accomplishments include:

• Implementing the recently adopted BPI 2100 standard, Standard for

Home Performance-related Data Transfer and BPI 2200 standard,

Standard for Home Performance-related Data Collection, known together

as HPxML.

• Collaborating with FSL Home Improvements and Salt River Project

Agricultural Improvement and Power District to offer a robust Arizona

HPwES program.

Focus on Energy Madison, Wisconsin

Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence

Key accomplishments include:

• Delivering $3.1 million in residential incentives to HPwES projects and

completing 1,976 HPwES projects in 2014.

• Enlisting a trade ally advisory group to provide insights on making the

HPwES program profitable for contractors and cost effective for

homeowners.

• Scoring over 600 homes using the Department’s Home Energy Score and

evaluating how effective this program is in steering customers to

residential portfolio programs.

NYSERDA Albany, New York

Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence

Key accomplishments include:

• Converting 32 percent of HPwES assessments to projects, resulting in

more than 6,300 completed projects in 2014.

• Experiencing an increase of more than 14 percent in the monetary value

of the work completed in the HPwES program compared to last year.

• Implementing new application procedures that resulted in 26 percent more

applications for low-cost financing over 2013.

Every year the Department of Energy honors Home Performance with ENERGY STAR participating contractors that complete 100 or more projects in a calendar year.

137 participating contractors working under 19 programs were recognized for their work in 2014.

Century Club Awards

Energy Guys

Fox Service Company

Green Collar Operations

McCullough Heating and AC

Strand Brothers Service Experts

Austin Energy’s Century Club

Contractors

Chapman Heating & Air

Conditioning

Nemow Insulation Company

Columbia Water & Light’s Century

Club Contractors

A Plus Installation

Aiello Home Services

BCB Conservation Group, LLC

Climate Partners

Competitive Resources, Inc

Energy Efficiencies Solutions, LLC

Energy PRZ

Energy Resource Group Technologies, Inc

Fox Heating Services, LLC

Greenbuilt Connecticut

Tri-City Home Energy Services, LLC

Uplands Construction Group, LLC

Eversource and the United Illuminating

Company’s Century Club Contractors Gulick Building and Development

Handyman Express Energy Solutions, LLC

Hoffman Fuel

Home Doctor of America

Lantern Energy, LLC

NECS

New England Smart Energy Group

Next Step Living

R Pelton Builders, Inc

Santa Energy

Victory Energy Solutions

Wesson Energy, Inc

Dr. Energy Saver – Lansing

SIR Home Improvements

The Insulation Man Inc

Consumers Energy’s Century Club

Contractors

Elysian Energy, LLC*

* Denotes a winner that completed their

projects with more than one program.

District of Columbia Sustainable

Energy Utility’s Century Club

Contractor

Boak and Sons

Farrell Insulation

Dominion East Ohio’s Century Club

Contractors

DeVere Insulation Home

Performance

EDGE Energy*

Efficient Home, LLC

Elysian Energy*

Energy Services Group

* Denotes a winner that completed their

projects with more than one program.

EmPOWER Maryland’s Century Club

Contractors Baltimore Gas & Electric, Delmarva Power, Potomac Edison, Potomac

Electric Power Company, and Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative

Green Savers USA Inc

Neil Kelly Company Inc

Energy Trust of Oregon’s Century

Club Contractors

Diversified Energy

Entergy New Orleans’s Century Club

Contractor

Duerst Insulation Technicians

Highland Building Consultants

Insulation Technologies / Intec

On-Site Performance Testing

Rock and Tait Exteriors

Rockweiler Insulation Inc

S&E Insulation

St. Croix Energy Solutions, Inc

Weatherization Services, LLC

Focus on Energy’s Century Club

Contractors

Convenient Home Service

Custom Energy Design, Inc

Eco Rehab, LLC

Extreme Energy Solution

Green ID

Ideal Energy, LLC

Jaycox Air Conditioning

Marshall Insulation, LLC

Reeis AZ, Inc

FSL Home Improvement’s Century

Club Contractors

Arc Insulation

Assured Energy Solutions

DNR Construction

Green Attic Insulation

Green Home Weatherization

Home Comfort Insulation

Illinois Home Performance with

ENERGY STAR’s Century Club

Contractors

EDGE Energy*

* Denotes a winner that completed their

projects with more than one program.

Local Energy Alliance Program’s

Century Club Contractor

Econo-Therm Insulation

Green Audit USA, Inc.

Home Performance

Technologies, Inc.

Home Star Energy Services

Powersmith

Solar Energy Haus

Triple H Contracting, Inc

PSEG Long Island’s Century Club

Contractors

Affordable Energy Solutions

Green Comprehensive Audit

Green Improvement Consulting

Smart Energy Solutions

Star Energy Consultants, LLC

Metropolitan Energy Center’s Century

Club Contractors

Affordable Building and

Weatherization, Inc

Aten Energy

Bruin Corp

Calyx Retrofit

Cross Insulation

Energy Efficient Exteriors,

Energy Geeks Inc

National Grid (Rhode Island)’s

Century Club Contractors Globex Industries, Inc

Greenwich Insulation

Insulate 2 Save

Retrofit Insulation

RI Insulation

Statewide Insulation

Superior Insulation

Alber Service Co

Allied Construction, LLC

Arctic Air Conditioning

BC Express Inc

Bovio Heating Plumbing Cooling

Insulation

Building Sciences, LLC

Energy Analysis Group, LLC

New Jersey Board of Public Utilities’s

Century Club Contractors Home Energy Matters, Inc

Hutchinson Plumbing, Heating &

Cooling

Laury Heating Cooling, LLC

Mark Group of New Jersey, Inc

Mid-State Heating and Cooling, Inc

Rubino Service Co

The Insulation Group

BrightHome Energy Solutions, LLC

Bruni & Campisi Energy & Conservation

Services, LLC

Buffalo Energy, Inc

Foam It Insulation

Green Audit USA, Inc

GreenSeal Weatherization

Home Comfort Heating & Cooling

Home Energy Performance by HALCO

Isaac Home Energy Performance

NYSERDA’s Century Club

Contractors J Synergy Green

New York Homeowners Construction Co,

LLC

Powersmith

Standard Insulating Co., Inc

Town Insulation

Triple H Contracting, Inc

True Energy Solutions, Inc.

ZeroDraft of CNY, Inc.

Air Assurance

Airco Services, Inc

Big Ductin', LLC

SRI Energy

Public Service Company of

Oklahoma’s Century Club Contractors

Carolina Green Energy Systems, LLC

Cool Care, Inc

South Carolina Electric & Gas’s

Century Club Contractors

KMT Group, Inc

NECS, LLC

SEAL Energy Solutions

Southwestern Electric Power

Company’s Century Club Contractors

Congratulations and thank you to the

Home Performance with ENERGY

STAR award winners!

We appreciate your efforts to

advance the industry and expand the

home performance market.