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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reached a significant milestone in bringing the building community together by releasing a common definition for a zero energy building, or what is also referred to as a “net zero energy” or “zero net energy.”

EERE Success Story—Xergy Develops Breakthrough Water Heater Compressor

This week, the Department announced that the Association of Energy Engineers’ (AEE) Certified Energy Manager® is the first certification program to be recognized under the Better Buildings Workforce Guidelines program.

The second cycle of the Catalyst Prize Program is moving forward. The Business Innovation contest—designed to help teams form and explore softwar...

EERE Success Story—Energy-Efficient Smart Windows are Lowering Energy Costs

A year ago this week, a star was born. Working with IBPSA-USA, the US chapter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, and Big Ladder Software, a Denver, CO startup, the Energy Department launched Unmet Hours, a peer-to-peer qu...

Since its initial launch in the summer of 2013, the Building Performance Database (BPD) has grown to include over 800,000 records from existing res...

DOE and NREL, with help from Big Ladder Software, recently launched user feedback portals for EnergyPlus and OpenStudio, ensuring that the development team focuses on features and improvements that users want and need.

Welcome to Uptake, a new blog featuring the latest information from the Energy Department's Commercial Buildings Integration (CBI) program.

Learn about some of the key milestones in one of the most important inventions of modern times -- air conditioning.