As energy code stringency has been increasing in recent years, compliance rates in residential buildings have been dropping.
What role should different market actors play in energy code administration in Vermont? What are the pain points with respect to residential energy code compliance?
The newly developed Vermont Residential Energy Code Administration Plan – created as a joint project between Energy Futures Group, Vermont Energy Investment Corporation dba Efficiency Vermont, the Vermont Association of Planning and Development Agencies, Vermont Gas Systems (VGS), the Burlington Electric Department and the Vermont Secretary of State's Office – aims to answer these questions by proposing roles for key market actors and funding strategies that can support energy code administration in Vermont while helping to increase residential code compliance rates. This project was completed through a Department of Energy Resilient and Efficient Code Implementation (RECI) award.
This plan offers three potential pathways to energy code administration and, ultimately, improved compliance rates, resulting in reduced energy consumption. These are the Technical Assistance (TA) Pathway, the Energy Professionals (EP) Pathway, and the Division of Fire Safety (DFS) Pathway. The three pathways allow for this plan to be leveraged under a wide range of policy scenarios that may play out over the coming years.
The full plan is available now, click here to download.