NCBPA welcomes you and your company to participate in National Energy Efficiency Day, taking place
today
all across the country!
Last year, NCBPA and its members celebrated by sharing stories, job site photos and team pictures online to promote North Carolina's national leadership in energy efficiency. And, Governor Roy Cooper declared October 5th, 2018
Energy Efficiency Day in North Carolina
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Our industry is the largest sector of North Carolina's energy and clean energy industries by far with
more than 110,000 jobs
and $15 Billion in annual revenue! But, as NCBPA identified in 2018, our state still has an opportunity to reduce its energy usage by
16.8% through building energy efficiency
alone!
Click here
for more facts about energy efficiency and building performance in our state.
Today, help spread the word about
#EnergyEfficiencyFirst
in North Carolina by acting on one (or more!) of the following recommendations!
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Share Your Projects Today, Tomorrow and Every Work Day!
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Let your customers, vendors, employees and the world know that your company supports Energy Efficiency!
Click here for a social media toolkit
to help you share your projects today, tomorrow and going forward!
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Commit Your Company to the 2019 Campaign!
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Click here
to commit your company to the national #EEDay2019 campaign that currently includes more than 500 companies and organizations nationwide! Doing so shows your company's support and affords opportunities to participate in education, communications and policy campaigns next year!
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Take Action to Save Energy at Home and Work!
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Make a difference in your own home, at your office or a community building by following simple and cost-effective energy saving measures such as switching to LEDs, maintaining the HVAC system and adding more insulation.
Click here
for 10 home energy saving tips from the national #EEDay2019 campaign and spread the word about NCBPA's consumer education websites for homeowners and renters at
www.HomeEnergyNC.org
and for commercial owners and operators at
www.BuildingPerformanceNC.org
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Learn How You Can Participate in Efforts to Improve North Carolina's Energy Efficient Future!
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Just yesterday North Carolina's new Clean Energy Plan was released to the public by the Department of Environmental Quality and the Governor's Office following a year's worth of stakeholder meetings, surveys and research. This plan includes a wealth of energy efficiency information that was formed through a separate project, the North Carolina Energy Efficiency Roadmap, released by the Nicholas Institute at Duke University just a few weeks prior. Click on a link below to read about these important new resources for our Clean Energy industry, including how energy efficiency must play a foundational role in helping the state meet its new renewable energy, clean energy and carbon emission goals.
Contact us
to discuss ways that you and your company can play a role in implementing these plans!
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Find a Utility Energy Efficiency Incentive Program for Your Home, Business or Next Customer Project!
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North Carolina's regulated and unregulated utilities offer a wealth of energy efficiency incentive programs that can help offset upfront costs and provide vital incentives to help you, your business and your customers take action on energy saving improvements. For example, Duke Energy's
Residential New Construction program
provides cash incentives to builders that construct homes in the Progress territory to 15% more energy efficient than code, and the utility's Energy
Efficiency Design Assistance program
offers free energy efficiency design consultation for project teams designing new or retrofitting existing commercial buildings.
Click here
for a roundup of energy efficiency programs in most of the Carolinas (just released by Upstate Forever) and
visit the DSIRE database
to find a full listing of regulated utility, electric co-op or municipal utility program in your service area!
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Participate in or Lead an Industry Committee!
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Looking to make a personal contribution to our industry efforts? NCBPA can help! Our member professionals participate in monthly committee meetings on a
variety of industry topics
. Looking ahead to 2020, we're actively seeking leaders to help us plan for more progress in key areas such as: net zero energy buildings, disaster preparedness and resiliency, green materials, building automation, integrating renewable energy into commercial buildings, and much more!
Contact us
to participate or play a leadership role!
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Partner with an EE Expert on Your Next Project!
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With more than 1,500 companies working in energy efficiency across the state, there is an architect, developer, insulator, energy modeler, commissioning agent or product supplier near you that can help improve the energy efficiency and building performance of your next project!
Click here
to find an NCBPA member company near you.
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Become a Policy Advocate!
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There is a wealth of policy activity taking place in North Carolina's energy and clean energy sectors. NCBPA and partner organizations are hard at work with Duke Energy, the Utilities Commission, the Governor's Office, the Legislature and other important bodies helping to create a better policy environment for our industry and its customers.
Click here
for an overview of key energy efficiency policy activity taking place in North Carolina in 2019 and check out our
News page
for recent articles about our changing policy environment and key priorities. Then,
contact us
to get involved in efforts to further advance our industry in 2020!
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Educate Your Industry Peers!
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Contact us
to schedule an online webinar, in-person workshop or session at our (soon-to-be-announced) 2020 Conference about your company's products, services, successes and recommendations for industry peers. We'll help spread the word to architects, builders, contractors and even consumers about energy saving practices!
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Join NCBPA as a Member Company!
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Don't settle for just one day of Energy Efficiency, help make every work day about saving energy! NCBPA is North Carolina's not-for-profit trade association for energy efficiency, green building and high performance construction
companies and professionals.
Our members
help residential, commercial, government, institutional and industrial buildings across the state improve building performance.
Joining NCBPA provides opportunities for your company and its workers to be active members in our policy, workforce development, consumer education and other industry work.
Click here
to see what we're accomplishing together.
Too busy to play an active role right now? Joining provides you with a bi-weekly e-newsletter of industry goings-on so that you can stay in touch and still support our work. Membership dues start at $300 per company per year.
Click here to join NCBPA in just 5 minutes!
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Contact us with your questions, comments and for more information!
919-841-6207
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