Nevada Building Performance Professionals

NBPP’s “The Energy Detectives” on PBS April 19

In honor of Earth Day, NBPP’s TV show will air at 10 pm on Thursday, April 19 on Vegas PBS Channel 10.1, with a repeat airing on Sunday, April 22  at 7 pm.

NBPP commissioned the show because we found the public has difficulty visualizing what is involved in an energy retrofit, but are enthusiastic once they see the process with their own eyes.  In the show, NBPP auditors and contractors retrofit a 1960’s Las Vegas home.  The homeowner has seen her energy bills increase steadily until they are no longer affordable.  Our team achieves substantial savings for the homeowner.

The program shows the process of a real, inhabited family home being retrofitted, with measures real clients are likely to take, including shell sealing, improved insulation, duct sealing, replacement of an old refrigerator, radiant barrier, and a solar hot water system.

THE ENERGY DETECTIVES

Thursday, April 19, 10 pm

Sunday, April 22, 7 pm

Vegas PBS, Channel 10.1

Efficiency First Nevada NBPP Presents at CSN’s Green Tech Fest

For the second year in a row NBPP representatives manned a table at the CSN Green Tech Fest on March 10.  This all day event featured speakers from CSN’s faculty, with presentations about advances in green agricultural technology, the coming crisis in water availability worldwide, and Las Vegas’s proposed water pipeline to drain water from rural areas of Northern Nevada.

Our Speakers’ Bureau also had its kickoff as President Mary Venable gave a presentation that introduced home performance and Efficiency First, telling a receptive audience how home energy analysis and retrofits work.  The presentation also stressed the importance of using a certified professional to ensure homeowners get the service they expect.

NBPP members Home Energy Licensed Professionals, SolarEnvi and Sotelo Air exhibited, as well as our colleagues from One Sun Solar, Clean Energy Project and the Sierra Club.

New training available! 

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• NBPP becomes Efficiency First Nevada Chapter