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Final Report ♦ Presentations & Other Documents 

Pursuant to H.56 §20d, the Vermont Energy Act of 2011, this working group on building energy disclosure was created to study whether and how to require disclosure of the energy efficiency of commercial and residential buildings in order to make data on building energy performance visible in the marketplace for real property and to inform the choices of those who may purchase or rent such property. 

Final Report

Pursuant to H.56 §20d(e), the Working Group on Building Energy Disclosure (Working Group) was responsible for submitting this Final Report to the general assembly on or before December 15, 2011 with its recommendation on whether the state of Vermont should adopt requirements on disclosure of building energy performance and recommended legislation on such disclosure if the general assembly were to choose to adopt such requirements. 

Presentations & Other Documents

• Building Energy Disclosure Mission Statement 9/8/11 Draft, Building Energy Disclosure Working Group

• Vermont Statutes re Building Energy Standards with applicability provisions bolded for Building Energy Disclosure Working Group 9/19/11, Aaron Adler, Vermont Legislative Counsel

• U.S./Canada Building Energy Disclosure Requirements (9/16/11), Ken Horseman and Jennifer Hollar, Vermont Department of Economic, Housing and Community Development

• Building Energy Disclosure Working Group (Energy Labeling Subcommittee Report) 8/12/11, Energy Labeling Subcommittee, Building Energy Disclosure Working Group (George Twigg, Deputy Policy Director, Efficiency Vermont) 

• Rating Background and Technical Grounding presentation (8/12/11), Richard Faesy, Energy Futures Group 

• Rating Subcommittee Report (9/19/11), Rating Subcommittee, Building Energy Disclosure Working Group

• Residential Building Energy Rating Options (Matrix) for Vermont (9/13/11), Rating Subcommittee, Building Energy Disclosure Working Group

• Testimony, Gaye Symington (9/19/11), High Meadows Fund

• The Future of Building Energy Rating and Disclosure Mandates: What Europe Can Learn From the United States, Andrew Burr, Institute for Market Transformation; Cliff Majersik, Institute for Market Transformation; and Nick Zigelbaum, Natural Resources Defense Council

• Working Group on Building Energy Disclosure presentation (9/19/11), Regulatory Assistance Project, Ajith Rao & Riley Allen

• Working Group on Building Energy Disclosure presentation, Eric Phaneuf Esq., Government Affairs Energy Liaison, Vermont Association of REALTORS®