2020 Program Guide
Requirements for Participation
Mcconkie, Timothy L (US) US\e367425 US\e367425
VERSION 1.3 HIGH EFFICIENCY HOMES
The 2020 incen ve plan has introduced new incen ves to promote efficient technologies and procedures for efficient homes of all shapes and sizes. In addi on, the 2020 High Efficiency Homes Program will also ... homes installed with a qualified ENERGY STAR Cer fied Smart Thermostat. 1.
VERSION 1.3 HIGH EFFICIENCY HOMES - CenterPoint Energy
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Document DEVICE REPORT2020 CenterPoint HEH Program Manual.PdfVERSION 1.3 HIGH EFFICIENCY HOMES 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION CONTENTS Welcome ....................................................................................................................................................... 2 Contacts .................................................................................................................................................... 2 Overview ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 CenterPoint Energy, TRC, & You .................................................................................................................... 3 Incenves ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 2020 Incenve Structure........................................................................................................................... 4 Home Requirements ..................................................................................................................................... 5 Home Locaon Requirements................................................................................................................... 6 Build and Cerficaon Date Requirements............................................................................................... 6 Efficiency Requirement ............................................................................................................................. 6 Parcipant Requirements ............................................................................................................................. 7 Homebuilder Requirements...................................................................................................................... 7 HERS Rater Requirements ......................................................................................................................... 7 HVAC Contractor Requirements................................................................................................................ 7 Applicaon for Incenves ............................................................................................................................. 8 The Process ............................................................................................................................................... 8 Milestones................................................................................................................................................. 8 Quality Assurance and Quality Control ......................................................................................................... 9 Correcve Acon Procedure ..................................................................................................................... 9 Program Implementaon............................................................................................................................ 10 Training.................................................................................................................................................... 10 Program Outreach and Adversing......................................................................................................... 10 Appendices.................................................................................................................................................. 11 A. CenterPoint Service Territory.............................................................................................................. 11 B. ENERGY STAR Smart Wi-Fi Thermostats.............................................................................................. 12 C. AHRI Informaon ................................................................................................................................ 13 D. Energy Simulaons ............................................................................................................................. 14 High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 1 WELCOME Welcome to the 2020 CenterPoint Energy High Efficiency Homes Program. As a high efficiency homebuilder, you are part of an elite group that is seng the standard for energy-efficient construcon in Texas. This program guide is designed to provide you with the informaon you will need throughout your parcipaon in the CenterPoint Energy High Efficiency Homes Program. Should you run into any problems or have addional quesons, we are here to help you. CenterPoint Energy has contracted with TRC Companies (TRC) to implement the High Efficiency Homes Program for 2020. TRC Companies is naonally recognized for successful program design and implementaon of ulity distributed energy soluons including a wide array of residenal energy efficiency programs. TRC's dedicated program team will work closely with CenterPoint Energy Program staff to support builders, raters and other market actors achieve success in the CenterPoint Energy High Efficiency Homes Program. Thank you for your parcipaon. We all look forward to working with you to advance home construcon and promote energy efficiency in Texas. Contacts Drew Scazzi, Program Manager CenterPoint Energy Email: [email protected] Office: (713) 207-5618 Cell: (832) 993-2647 Tim McConkie, Program Manager TRC Companies Email: [email protected] Direct: 346.280.3992 Deborah Hill, Operaons Manager TRC Companies Email: [email protected] Office: 252.459.6654 High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 2 OVERVIEW The CenterPoint Energy High Efficiency Homes (HEH) Program is a market transformaon program offered by CenterPoint Energy and implemented by TRC Companies. The program goal is to advance the energy efficiency of new residenal construcon in CenterPoint Energy's electric service area to help achieve the State's Energy Efficiency Goal. Funding for the CenterPoint HEH Program comes from transmission and distribuon pass through charges paid by electricity customers. As such, the program will strive to deliver the program in a marketneutral, nondiscriminatory manner to all eligible customers and all areas of CenterPoint Energy's electric ulity service area. As a market transformaon program, the CenterPoint HEH program will use strategic efforts, including, but not limited to, incenves and educaon to reduce market barriers for the adopon of energy efficient technologies and pracces. This market transformaon program is designed to aid new home builders that will promote the adopon of efficient building pracces and products. CENTERPOINT ENERGY, TRC, & YOU CenterPoint Energy is a transmission and distribuon ulity (TDU) that provides safe and reliable electric service to over 2.5 million customers in the greater Houston metro area. As a TDU in the Texas deregulated electricity market, CenterPoint is required by the Public Ulity Commission of Texas (PUCT) to offer a variety of energy efficiency programs to customers that provide value and verified energy savings. Since 2001, CenterPoint has sponsored a residenal new construcon energy efficiency program to meet energy savings goals and uses financial and non-financial incenves to transform the Texas new homes market by promong the construcon of ENERGY STAR cerfied homes and other homes built above code. TRC one of the largest implementers of energy efficiency projects in the United States and partners with government, industrial and commercial customers to deliver energy savings. TRC manages energy efficiency projects to ensure customers conserve energy, increase operaonal efficiencies and maximize capital spending. With your help, CenterPoint Energy, TRC and the High Efficiency Homes Program will contribute to meeng the State of Texas' energy savings goals and protect the environment at the same me. High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 3 INCENTIVES Increased Incentives require an increased commitment to energy efficiency. The High Efficiency Homes Program is a market transformaon program. To achieve market transformaon, the program is designed to incrementally increase the rigor of parcipaon over me while providing incenves for builders to commit to highly efficient measures and processes. To this end, the 2020 incenve structure has been determined in response to current market barriers to adopon, availability of qualified labor, updated incremental costs and survey feedback solicited from past parcipants 2020 INCENTIVE STRUCTURE Multiple pathways exist to allow multiple building types, sizes and fuel types an equal opportunity The 2020 incenve plan has introduced new incenves to promote efficient technologies and procedures for efficient homes of all shapes and sizes. In addion, the 2020 High Efficiency Homes Program will also incenvize HERS Raters for their contribuons to the program and a bonus measure will be available for homes installed with a qualified ENERGY STAR Cerfied Smart Thermostat1. Builders and Raters may do as they wish with the incenves earned through the High Efficiency Homes Program although it is encouraged that the funds are reinvested back into efficiency improvements. In fact, due to the planned year-over-year increases in rigor, a builder that does not make annual efficiency improvements may be unlikely to meet future program year requirements without a strategic plan in place to incrementally increase energy efficiency over me. The High Efficiency Homes Program has the following incenves available to homebuilders and HERS raters for homes submited to the program that are completed within the meframe that constutes the program year and meet all eligibility requirements. The mandatory minimum efficiency criteria to parcipate is 10% or 750 kWh of savings as demonstrated by the energy model. There are three separate pathways to earn incenves in the program, with only one pathway's requirements to be met in order to comply with the efficiency standards of the program. Pathway 1: kWh Savings over Reference Home and Pathway 2: % kWh Savings over Reference Home are calculated as the difference between the as-built home and the program's reference home and are determined by the approved energy modeling soware. Pathway 3: Prescripve does not require a calculaon of kWh savings between the reference and as built homes, but all 3 technology requirements must be met per er. Homes that meet the requirements of more than one Pathway will earn the incenve associated with the highest er. 1 A list of ENERGY STAR Cerfied Smart Thermostats that meet the program requirement can be found in Appendix B. High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 4 Only ONE Pathway must be met Performance - Path 1 Percentage - Path 2 Prescriptive - Path 3 kWh Savings % kWh Savings Prescripve Incenve ($) Base Efficiency 750 10% $100 Tier Tier 1 1750 15% R38 R13 - R15 16 Ac Walls SEER $250 Tier 2 2500 20% R38 Ac R15 Walls >16 SEER $500 High Efficiency 3000 25% $750 Tier : to qualify for Tier 2 or the High Efficiency Tier through either kWh pathway, at least one measure from the Tier 2 prescriptive pathway must also be met. Addionally, to further encourage parcipang ENERGY STAR cerfied homebuilders and to promote the increased supply of ENERGY STAR cerfied new homes and products, two Bonus incenves are offered to homebuilders building ENERGY STAR cerfied homes or installing ENERGY STAR cerfied smart thermostats. The program will pay only one thermostat incenve per HVAC system. Bonus Measure Bonus Incenve ENERGY STAR Cerfied New Home $75 ENERGY STAR Cerfied Smart Thermostat $25 Finally, to further support the HERS Raters that the High Efficiency Homes Program relies so heavily on, a Rater incenve will be paid to the HERS Rang Company of record for every home that earns a Tiered incenve. Rater Measure Rater Incenve Every Approved Home $15 Note: If a project falls outside of program guidelines, a formal request outlining the reason for the exemption must be submitted and approved by the Energy Efficiency and Business Development Director. HOME REQUIREMENTS Requirements to parcipate exist for any parcular home, as well as for parcipang homebuilders, HERS Raters, and HVAC contractors. Details for the requirements for each are contained in this secon. Eligible homes must meet the following criteria: High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 5 HOME LOCATION REQUIREMENTS · Home must be located within the Greater-Houston area of CenterPoint Energy's service territory and receive electric distribution from CenterPoint Energy. Ultimately, this will be evident with the placement of a permanent electric utility revenue meter and the assignment of an ESI ID to the property address. BUILD AND CERTIFICATION DATE REQUIREMENTS · Only homes built within the following date boundaries of the 2020 program will be eligible. There are two date-boundaries that must be considered to determine eligibility. a) The CenterPoint Energy permanent utility revenue meter must be set on or after September 1, 2019 b) The final certificate date, as self-reported by the HERS Rater, must be on or after November 1, 2019 EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENT · The home must qualify for this above-code energy efficiency program by demonstrating the merits of the energy efficient home via one of the three pathways to a tiered incentive as described in the previous section. · Evaluation of the three prescriptive measures that may impact Tier performance; Attic, Wall and SEER, will be done by comparing the Dominant value, as defined by from the supplied energy model, against the tier element. High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 6 Parcipant Requirements There are three primary roles that make up program parcipaons Homebuilder Requirements · Homebuilders will acquire builder permits as necessary to design, build, and market high efficiency homes that receive a CenterPoint Energy permanent revenue meter. · Retain the services of a RESNET approved energy Rater to inspect and test the home as needed. · Ensure all installed heating and cooling equipment efficiencies can be demonstrated with an AHRI certificate of efficiency that is dated between September 1, 2019 and December 1, 2020. · Coordinate with HERS Rater and HVAC Contractor to share home information needed for a successful incentive request. · Cooperate with information requests including Quality Assurance/Quality Control or field inspection requests. HERS Rater Requirements · Inspect and test homes appropriate to the energy code enforced in the jurisdiction where the home is being built. · Adhere to the RESNET MINHERS, RESNET-ANSI Standards and, if applicable, the RESNET Guidelines for Multifamily Energy Ratings. · Complete and provide an energy model that demonstrates compliance with all requirements of this guide. HVAC Contractor Requirements · Install only AHRI certified heating and cooling equipment that meets the SEER and/or HSPF expectations of the homebuilder. · Provide the AHRI number of a certified equipment combination or a printed copy of a certified equipment combination that is dated between September 1, 2019 and December 1, 2020.2 · Provide HERS Rater and/or builder with information related to the efficiency of the home, including space conditioning efficiencies and mechanical ventilation flow rates (cfm), run-time (hours), and wattage of the fan providing fresh air ventilation (if known and applicable). 2 AHRI cerficates in "Acve" or "Producon Stopped" status are cerfied. Other statuses, such as "Disconnued" or "Obsolete" are not cerfied. See Appendix B for more info. High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 7 APPLICATION FOR INCENTIVES UPON COMPLETETION OF AN ELIGIBLE HOME, A REQUEST FOR AN INCENTIVE MUST BE COMPLETED. The High Efficiency Homes Program is part of CenterPoint Energy's overall efficiency porolio and is designed to help meet the state's energy savings goals. The program is overseen by a third party evaluator that requires certain data points be collected to ensure the integrity, validity and accuracy of efficiency claims. To this end, the High Efficiency Homes Program must collect numerous pieces to support the incenve payment and the claimed energy savings. We thank you in advance for supporng this effort. THE PROCESS For the 2020 program year, CenterPoint Energy will ulize a new plaorm, AEG Vision, for data collecon and incenve processing. The home page for the Vision database can be found at the following web address: htps://cnpheh.programprocessing.com Contact program management directly for database training. MILESTONES During the year, homebuilders must meet the Quarterly Milestone Performance Requirements. If a homebuilder fails to meet the milestones, all or a poron of a homebuilder's incenve allocaon may be re-allocated to other builders meeng the milestones for the program to ensure incenve funds are used appropriately. Milestone percentages are calculated as the percentage of the parcipang homebuilder's allocaon and will include homes submited on the corresponding project. Milestone Date April 15, 2020 July 15, 2020 September 15, 2020 December 2, 2020 Performance Requirement Homes represenng at least 25% of the incenve allocaon must be submited to the Program Homes represenng at least 50% of the incenve allocaon must be submited to the Program Homes represenng at least 75% of the incenve allocaon must be submited to the Program Homes represenng at least 100% of the incenve allocaon must be submited to the Program High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 8 QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL In consultaon with TRC, CenterPoint Energy will implement a Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) field inspecon program. The QA/QC program provides another layer of assurance to homebuilders that their homes meet ENERGY STAR® and/or the Program's requirements and that HERS Raters are following RESNET standards. Raters will be required to submit daily inspecon schedules to CenterPoint Energy Inspectors to allow for scheduling of onsite QA/QC visits. TRC will be performing an extensive desk QA/QC verificaon of homes submited to the program to ensure all program requirements are met as outlined in this program manual. This will provide a higher level of program integrity and posively contribute to reporng results to the Public Ulies Commission of Texas. Corrective Action Procedure The goal of the QA/QC program's correcve acon plan is to help achieve connuous improvements in the CenterPoint High Efficiency Homes Program®. The results and findings of the QA/QC program will be shared with parcipang homebuilders and raters as needed during the program year. Below are the examples of the correcve acon steps implemented throughout the program year: · 1st Offense: The HERS rating company and the builder will be notified and counseled by CenterPoint Energy and TRC program account managers. · 2nd Offense: The builder and the HERS rating company will again be notified and the builder incentive for homes not meeting the requirement will be forfeited. · 3rd Offense: The determination will be made by the Program depending on the circumstances and may include the HERS Rating company and/or builder being suspended from the Program for the remainder of the Program year. In the event that a home has already been paid but does not pass the QA/QC process, the homebuilder will have their following months invoice reduced by the amount of the incenve from the home that did not pass QA/QC. High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 9 PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION The CenterPoint High Efficiency Homes Program can provide the following support to program parcipants upon request: · Program, Operational and Technical Leaders are available to guide homebuilder partners through the lifecycle of the Program; · Plan reviews and performance consulting to determine the most appropriate, cost effective measures needed to build ENERGY STAR® certified and High Efficiency Homes; and · Support for homebuilder marketing staff to help successfully integrate High Efficiency Homes into corporate messaging. Training The Program can guide homebuilders in how to best promote the ENERGY STAR® brand and other energy-efficient program branding, communicate the associated benefits of buying an ENERGY STAR® cerfied or High Efficiency home, and improve their homes' energy performance. Addional Technical training workshops focusing on energy-efficient construcon best pracces will be announced during the year. Parcipang homebuilders are encouraged to take advantage of these resources to capitalize on the financial and markeng benefits associated with building ENERGY STAR® cerfied and High Efficiency homes. Program Outreach and Advertising CenterPoint Energy will sponsor an outreach and adversing campaign on behalf of homebuilders parcipang in the CenterPoint High Efficiency Homes Program®. The campaign will include TV spots, radio spots, outdoor billboards, online audio visual and video ads, online banner ads, email markeng and social media ads. High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 10 APPENDICES A. CENTERPOINT SERVICE TERRITORY Gas and Electric Alvin*** Angleton** Baytown* Beach City* Beasley* Bellaire* Brookshire* Brookside Village* Bunker Hill Village* Clear Lake Shores* Clute* Conroe** * Cut and Shoot** Danbury* Deer Park* Dickinson*** East Bernard* El Lago* Freeport* Friendswood*** Galena Park* Hedwig Village* Hillcrest Village* Hilshire Village* Hitchcock* Houston* Humble* Hunters Creek Village* Jacinto City* Jersey Village* Jones Creek* Katy* Kemah* Kendleton* La Marque*** La Porte* Lake Jackson* League City*** Liverpool* Manvel* Meadows Place* Missouri City* Mont Belvieu* Morgan's Point* Nassau Bay* Needville* New Waverly* Oak Ridge North* Orchard* Oyster Creek* Panorama Village* Pasadena* Pearland** Piney Point Village* Pleak* Richmond* Richwood* Roman Forest* Rosenberg* Santa Fe* Seabrook* Shenandoah** Shoreacres* South Houston* Southside Place* Spring Valley* Stafford* Sugar Land* Taylor Lake Village* Texas City*** Wallis* Webster* West Columbia*** West University Place* Wharton* Willis** Electric Only Arocola Bonney Brazos Country Cove Fairchilds Galveston Iowa Colony Jamaica Beach Village Magnolia Old-River Winfree Pason Pine Island Prairie View Quintana San Felipe Sandy Point Thompsons Tiki Island Tomball Waller * Indicates customers with electric and gas services ** Indicates customers with gas services only *** Indicates customers with gas services and a minority of customers with electric services - See more at: htp://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/Corp/Pages/communies-we-serve-HO.aspx High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 11 B. ENERGY STAR SMART WI-FI THERMOSTATS htps://www.energystar.gov/producinder/product/cerfied-connected-thermostats/results The following list of thermostats that are ENERGY STAR cerfied was accessed from the ENERGY STAR website on 09/28/2019, use the link above for an up to date list of eligible thermostats. Alarm.com Smart Thermostat ADC-T3000 Alarm.com Smart Thermostat B36-T10 American Standard Gold 824 ACONT824AS52DB Braeburn 7205 Braeburn 7300 Braeburn 7305 Braeburn 7320 Bryant Housewise T6-WEM01-A Carrier Cor TP-WEM01-A Cor Cor 5C TSTWHA01 Cor Cor 7C TSTWRH01 ecobee SmartThermostat with Voice Control EB-STATE5* ecobee3 EB-STATE3***-## ecobee3 Lite EB-STATE3LT***-## ecobee4 EB-STATE4***-## EcoFactor simple S100 B Emerson Sensi Google Nest Learning Thermostat T3###** Google Nest Thermostat E T4###** Greenlite G2 Hive Thermostat SLT4 Honeywell Home D6 Pro Wi-Fi Ductless Controller DC60000WF1001 Honeywell Home RedLINK Presge THX9421R**** Honeywell Home RedLINK Vision PRO 8000 TH8110R**** Honeywell Home RedLINK Vision PRO 8000 TH8320R**** Honeywell Home RedLINK Vision PRO 8000 TH8321R*** Honeywell Home Round Smart 2nd Generaon TH8732WFH**** Honeywell Home T10 Pro Smart Thermostat THX***WF****** Honeywell Home T5 Wi-Fi Thermostat RCHT8610WF**** Honeywell Home T6 Pro Wi-Fi Progammable Thermostat Honeywell Home T6 Pro Wi-Fi Progammable Thermostat TH6320WF2*** Honeywell Home T9 Smart Thermostat RCHT9*10WF**** Honeywell Home WF Thermostat RTH6580 Honeywell Home Wi-Fi Smart Color Thermostat RTH9580WF**** Honeywell Home Wi-Fi Smart Color Thermostat RTH9585WF**** Honeywell Home Wi-Fi Thermostat 9000 TH9320WF**** Honeywell Home Wi-Fi Vision PRO 8000 TH8321WF**** Honeywell RedLINK Presge THX9421R**** Honeywell RedLINK Vision PRO 8000 TH8321R*** LUX GEOx LUX KONO LUX LUX/GEO PROSTAT PRS7325WF Trane XL824 TCONT824AS52DB Venstar Color Touch T7900 Venstar Explorer Mini T2000 High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 12 C. AHRI INFORMATION AHRI User Guide www.ahridirectory.org Electric space heang and cooling efficiency levels must be demonstrated with a printed AHRI cerficate of efficiency or a numerical equivalent, "AHRI Number". The directory can be found here: www.ahridirectory.org The program database, eTRACK, includes a direct connecon to the AHRI directory and only Acve or Producon Stopped status cerficates can be queried. Rounely, AHRI cerficates "expire" and fall into Disconnued or Obsolete statuses these are not "cerfied" AHRI cerficates. See the AHRI user guide for more informaon. The program recommends saving printed or electronically saving an AHRI cerficate for every combinaon planned for installaon in 2020 HEH program parcipang homes. High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 13 D. ENERGY SIMULATIONS The High Efficiency Homes Program can accept REM/Rate and Ekotrope formated energy simulaons that are completed to industry standards. REM/Rate: · Self-cerficaon with the program efficiency requirement can be accomplished by generang a "Fuel Summary Report" with reference to the program baseline UDRH. · 750 kWh or 10% savings is required to be eligible. Ekotrope: · Self-cerficaon with the program efficiency requirements can be accomplished by following the instrucons found on Ekotrope's ulity rebate program support page: htps://ekotrope.freshdesk.com/support/soluons/folders/17000125530 · 750 kWh or 10% savings is required to be eligible. High Efficiency Homes 2020 Program Guide 14Mcconkie, Timothy L (US) Adobe PDF Library 20.6.74