The Building Technologies Program 

Home Energy Retrofits and Green Jobs in the Stimulus Package.  Outlines two energy efficiency proposals, one of which is an expansion of the existing DOE Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) and the second of which outlines a grant program for point-of-sales energy retrofits. 

Residential Energy Retrofits: An Untapped Resource Right at Home. Article detailing the necessity of a government and industry backed energy efficiency system in a successful carbon reduction scheme.  Authored by Todd Gerarden.

High Performance Affordable Building Metrics.  This report summarizes the best available standards and metrics, makes recommendations on how performance should be defined and measured for each attribute, and offers suggestions on high performance benchmarks for each attribute.  In addition, as the goal of this report is to provide a starting point for discussion during the metrics creation process that must follow, this report contains recommendations on the development process and resulting metrics.        

Implementing Energy Efficiency in Building Codes Based on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.  Written by Amit Talipatra, the purpose of this policy analysis is to provide better understanding of Section 201 of the Waxman-Markey Bill.  The paper examines specific provisions of the bill and investigates ways for the Department of Energy and private code-development organizations to implement Waxman-Markey's policies using the existing tools and methods available to them.

Energy Efficient Mortgages.  FAS's recommendations for improving the current system of Energy Efficient Mortgages.