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Associations
- AABC -- Associated Air Balance Council
- ACEEE -- American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
- AEE -- Association of Energy Engineers
- ASHRAE -- American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers
- CESA -- Clean Energy States Alliance
- Energy Star
- Green Building Certification Institute -- LEED Accredited Professionals info, LEED® Green Building Rating System™
- RESNET -- Residential Energy Services Network
- USGBC / LEED -- U.S. Green Building Council / Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Consumer Resources & Tax Incentives
- Commercial Building Tax Deduction Coalition -- Deductions relating to energy efficient commercial buildings
- DSIRE -- Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE) & energy efficiency
- ENERGY STAR Target Finder -- Compare your site design to the average site energy instensity
- EPAct 2005 Energy Efficiency Tax Incentives -- Energy Policy Act of 2005 Energy Efficiency Tax Incentives
- EPAct 2005 Lighting Tax Deduction -- Lighting aspects of EPAct 2005′s Commercial Buildings Deduction
- GE 2005 EPAct Calculator and FAQ’s -- GE resources for EPAct 2005 tax incentives
- IRS Notice 2006-52 -- Deduction for Energy Efficient Commercial Buildings
- IRS Notice Notice 2008-40 -- Amplification of Notice 2006-52; Deduction for Energy Efficient Commercial Buildings
- LIHEAP -- Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program contact info
- PVWatts -- A Performance Calculator for Grid-Connected PV Systems
- Residential Electric Shopping Guide – PA
- Residential Natural Gas Shopping Guide – PA
- Tax Incentives Assistance -- federal income tax incentives for energy efficient products and technologies
- U.S. Solar Radiation Resource Maps -- Maps of min, max and average solar radiation derived from the 1961-1990 National Solar Radiation Data Base
- Weatherization Assistance Program (DOE) -- apply for DOE / state assistance ~ $2500 per home
Data & Statistics
- 2003 CBECS Detailed Tables -- Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey data
- 2008 Buildings Energy Data Book -- Statistics on residential and commercial building energy consumption, construction, building technologies, and building characteristics
- ENERGY STAR Target Finder -- Compare your site design to the average site energy instensity
- NREL Data Center -- NREL’s Renewable Resource Data Center
- TMY2 Data Files -- TMY2 data sets: many locations across the U.S.
- TMY2 Guide -- Data Elements in the TMY2 Format
- U.S. Country Energy Profiles -- Data through 2006 by country, region, and commercial group (OECD, OPEC)
- U.S. EIA -- Official energy statistics from the U.S. government
- U.S. State Energy Profiles -- Detailed data for each state
- Weather Data Depot -- good site for HDD and CDD data
Energy Engineering Resources & Tools
- ASHRAE Standards -- Interactive ASHRAE Standard 90.1 – Procedures & Compliance Forms
- BACnet: A Tutorial Overview
- Blower door testing nomenclature -- building airtightness test terminology, Tectite, ASHRAE Standard 136-1993 or ASTM Standard E779
- Building Energy Codes Resource Center -- Building Energy Codes Resource Center, software, webcasts
- Building Energy Software Tools Directory
- Common Heat Transfer Coefficients of some common Building Elements -- Common U-values
- DOE-2 and eQUEST -- DOE-2 and eQUEST building energy use and cost analysis software
- EERE: Estimating Additional Insulation Payback
- Energy Cost Calculator for Air-Cooled Electric Chillers -- Vary equipment size, energy cost, hours of operation, and /or efficiency level.
- ENERGY STAR Target Finder -- Compare your site design to the average site energy instensity
- Energy Unit Conversion Calculator -- Common Units and Conversions
- Enthalpy -- Enthalpy Calculations
- EPA Energy Star Portfolio Manager tool -- Benchmark energy performance of buildings, track improvement, and apply for recognition from EPA. LEED-EB:O&M rating system calls for an EPA Energy Star rating of at least 69.
- Heating Fuel Comparison Calculator -- compare heating system efficiencies and $/mmbtu heat dellivered
- Insulation Performance Calculator -- Thermal performance of bare or insulated piping, ducts, equipment
- Large Building Envelope Airtightness -- Large buildings airtightness and how it can be tested
- LEED Rating Systems -- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System
- Lighting Design Guide -- IESNA table (p.12) of recommended illumination levels
- M&V Documents -- FEMP M&V guides, EVO protocols, M&V plans
- Psychrometry Software -- Phsychrometric software: add-in for MS Excel
- Thermal Emissivity -- Thermography: Emissivity Table
- Ventilation and Air Leakage -- Blower Door Test & Methods for Measuring & Quantiying Building Air Leakage
- Weather Data Request Form -- Hourly weather data continuously collected and stored online
- Wind Resources -- Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States
- Wunderground History -- view daily weather history for a location that you choose
- Wunderground Map -- historic weather conditions for multiple locations available on this map
Energy Industry News & Related Sites
- Bloomberg Energy -- energy market news and international headlines
- Bloomberg Environment -- environment and energy news and international headlines
- Building Green -- Environmental Building News, directory of green products, blog
- C-SPAN Energy
- DOE Building Technologies -- Designing, building, and operating commercial and residential buildings.
- Energy Central -- Global power industry, blogs & jobs
- Environment and Energy Daily -- Energy-related legislation tracker
- FEMP -- Federal Energy Management Program
- Green Car Congress -- Technologies, products, issues and policies related to sustainable mobility
- Green Energy Ohio -- Sustainable energy policies and practices in Ohio
- guardian.co.uk -- Energy, efficiency, climate change, etc.
- NY Times Green Inc. -- Energy and environmental reporting
- Passive House Institute -- planning and design of passive construction: windows, ventilation systems, etc.
- PV Tech -- Photovoltaic Technology Developments and Solar News
- Rocky Mountain Institute -- Energy, water, buildings, transportion, and sustainable cities
- Solve Climate -- Daily climate news and opinion
- Technology Review -- A blog about new energy technology and some policy
- U.S. DOE EERE -- Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 10 programs
Forums
- CR4 -- engineers’ news and discussion
- HVAC-Talk -- HVACR community
- Mike Holt’s Forum – Electricians -- Contractors, electricians, engineers, inspectors, instructors, other electrical
- WordPress Support -- Create your blog, find plugins, get support…
Homebrew
- Home Energy Saver -- Do-it-yourself energy audit tool
- Other Power -- Build your own 1 kW wind turbine!
Job Listings
- ACEEE Job Board -- Employment Opportunities with ACEEE and other organizations
- Energy Jobs -- Energy managers, engineers, facility and plant managers, utilities…
- Green Collar Jobs -- Project managers, research associates, maintenance technicians, installers…
- NY Times & Monster -- Jobs By Category
Public Utility Commissions & Benefit Corporations
Web Development
- Colorzilla -- Firefox extension helps with web design and development tasks
- enom.com -- domain name information
- Hostgator -- web hosting
- HTML color codes -- HTML color codes
- IP Tools -- DNS and whois lookup
- Life Hacker -- Tech tricks, tips and downloads for getting things done
- Revolution Theme Support -- Revolution Theme Support
- Web Fonts -- Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents
- Web Tutorials -- Web-building tutorials, basic HTML, XHTML, XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia, WAP
