To: REA Contractors Regarding Programs: REA Program Summary: Revised REA Audit Tool (Excel File) Contact:homeaudits@nyserda.ny.gov
A new version of the Residential Market REA Tool is available on the contractor website, updates have been made to fuel rates. We recommend all contractors use the updated version ASAP as the old version will no longer be accepted beginning March 13, 2023.
To: Contractors and Stakeholders Regarding Programs: EmPower New York & Assisted Home Performance Summary: Correction to the BPI Certifications Announcement Contact:Please contact your Account Manager
Correction to the BPI Certifications Announcement.
In the original announcement, it was stated that BA-P will replace the BPI Envelope certification, it should have stated BA-T. The announcement below has been updated to reflect the correct certification.
BPI newcertifications and Program requirements
Building Performance Institute (BPI) will be replacing the BPI Building Analyst (BA) and BPI Envelope Professional certifications with the BPI Building Analyst Technician (BA-T) and the BPI Building Analyst Professional (BA-P) in early 2023.
Due to these changes, starting January 1, 2023, NYSERDA’s Single Family Residential Programs will continue to accept the BPI BA and Envelope certifications until the certification’s expiration date. When an individual’s certifications expire, they will be required to hold one of the BPI certifications listed in the program manual to perform energy assessments and BA-T will replace BPI Envelope as the requirement for a contractor to do building shell work.
If you have any questions on certifications, please contact your account manager.
To: All Contractors Regarding Programs: All Programs Summary: Spring Home Shows Contact:Cory Nicosia (cory.nicosia@nyserda.ny.gov)
NYSERDA will have a booth at the below home shows this spring and wants to explore opportunities to engage with you. If you are also attending any of the below shows, and would like to potentially engage with us, can you please let Cory Nicosia (cory.nicosia@nyserda.ny.gov) from our marketing team know? She’s currently pulling together a promotional plan for the shows so let her know ASAP if you’ll be at the Buffalo and by COB Weds 3/1 for all other shows.
Engagement opportunities may include:
Social media tagging/sharing
Email promotion
On-site (day of show) Facebook live-streaming
Listing of participating contractors in the NYSERDA booth
To: REA Contractors Regarding Programs: REA Program Summary: REA Migration to the NY Home Energy Portal Timeline Contact:homeaudits@nyserda.ny.gov
In Spring 2023 the Residential Energy Assessment Programs will be migrating from the current project portal (Uplight) to a new portal called the NY Home Energy Portal (NYHEP). The current Residential Energy Assessment Excel tool will be retired and a new energy assessment modeling tool will be available directly within NYHEP.
Below is an estimated timeline of the transition specific to the Residential Energy Assessment Program, which is based on the best information we currently have available. As some of these factors are outside of NYSERDA’s control, this timeline is subject to change.
February 2023– NYSERDA will be working with the portal contractor to finalize the design and functionality of the portal and continue internal testing.
March 2023 – Select contractor testing of the new REA workflow.
Thursday, April 27 – Final day to submit any open REA projects to Uplight. Any open projects that have not been submitted will need to be remodeled and submitted through NYHEP.
Week of May 8 – NYHEP opens. Contractors will be able to model and submit REA projects.
Any REA projects that were not completed or on hold as of the April 27 cutoff will not be migrated over to the NYHEP. If a contractor would like to complete one of those open or on hold projects, they will be required to remodel the project and submit for completion in NYHEP.
Weekly invoices will be run as usual.
Uplight projects that had a status of “completed” or “canceled” will be migrated over to the NYHEP in the future and contractors will have access to those projects if needed.
To: REA Contractors Regarding Programs: REA Program Summary: Revised REA Audit Tool (Excel File) Contact:homeaudits@nyserda.ny.gov
A new version of the Residential Market REA Tool is available on the contractor website with an update to the ASHP calculator. We recommend all contractors use the updated version as the old version will no longer be accepted as of February 15, 2023.