A group of home performance contractors submitted a proposal for Mass Save RCS program redesign at the August 10th EEAC (energy efficiency advisory council) meeting.
The proposal identifies the existing Lead Vendor roll in the Mass Save RCS program as an inhibitor to achieving increased contractor participation, deeper energy savings, and to meeting the cost-effective goals of the Green Communities Act.
Although there has been a lot of discussion from program designers regarding the need for major program design changes for January 2011- when existing Lead Vendor contracts expire- it was determined that there was too much inaction and gross disparity between what was stated as the intentions of some utility Program Administrators, and what was being actualized in RCS intermediary changes and home performance pilot programs.
The proposal for redesign is meant to be entirely relevant and helpful to the existing process.
It is a working document. It is structured with an understanding of the challenges inherent to providing cost-effective residential energy efficiency services as well as awareness of how other programs have handled similar challenges. The proposed changes in the Mass Save program, if implemented, will carefully open up the retrofit market in Massachusetts using a scalable whole-house approach to achieve deeper energy savings.
