The House took up the rule, as HB 2660. It passed Gov Org, then Judiciary,
and has been put in a different bundle, as HB 2626. No changes that I can
find were made to the rule. It is on third reading on House Calendar on
4/01/13. Here is a link:
_http://www.legis.state.wv.us/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2626%20SU
B.htm&yr=2013&sesstype=RS&i=2626_
(http://www.legis.state.wv.us/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2626%20SU…)
I have no idea why the House is originating this bundle, instead of the
Senate. Probably just sharing the workload. And I have no idea why it is being
held up for final passage.
don garvin
In a message dated 3/31/2013 3:42:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jkotcon(a)wvu.edu writes:
Any idea what happened to the WV Energy Efficiency Building codes
(87-CSR-4)? SB 251 went to Senate Judiciary, but was never taken up. Other Dept.
of Commerce rules are in SB 250, but I can't find any reference to the
energy building codes in the version on the Legislature's web page?
Jim Kotcon
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New study by IMT that could be helpful to EE and building codes advocates!
Energy-Efficient Homes Are Much Less Likely to Go Into Default
* _Emily Badger_
(http://www.theatlanticcities.com/authors/emily-badger/)
* Mar 19, 2013
_http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/03/energy-efficient-homes-are
-much-less-likely-go-default/5025/_
(http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/03/energy-efficient-homes-are…)
Green builders and environmental advocates have long suspected it to be
true that families living in energy-efficient homes might be less likely to
get in trouble making their monthly mortgage payments. Their energy bills are
lower and more predictable, without those wild swings between summer’s air
conditioning costs and winter’s heating oil delivery. It also seems
plausible that a homeowner who has weighed the up-front costs of energy
improvements over the long-term payoff in lower utility bills might be equally
conscientious in sizing up the risks of a 30-year mortgage.
But there’s never been hard data to support any of this – let alone to
help make the case that energy efficiency should be baked into how we
underwrite mortgages.
A _new study released today_
(http://www.imt.org/resources/detail/home-energy-efficiency-and-mortgage-ris…) attempts for the first
time to quantify the connection between energy efficiency and default
risk. The research, funded by the _Institute for Market Transformation_
(http://www.imt.org/) and led by University of North Carolina researcher Nikhil
Kaza, looked at 71,000 nationally representative owner-occupied
single-family homes, 21,000 of them with _Energy Star certifications_
(http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cbd_guidebook.cbd_guidebook_apply_3) . And it turns
out the energy-efficient houses were 32 percent less likely to go into
default when sized up against comparable homes without that rating.
The study looked at loans that originated between 2002 and 2012, spanning
the mortgage crisis. And it also found that the more energy-efficient the
house, the lower the default risk.
The researchers controlled for the size and age of the houses, neighborhood
income, climate, home value, local unemployment rates, utility prices and
borrower credit scores, among other variables. And so this is not a
snapshot of pricey solar-powered homes compared to 1950s-era bungalows.
“We’re going to similar homes in the same neighborhoods, with the same
price, with the same credit scores of the borrowers,” says Robert Sahidi, a
co-author of the report’s executive summary and the director of the Energy
Efficiency Finance Policy program at IMT. “It’s not like were picking
somebody making $100,000 and comparing it to somebody making $50,000 with a lower
credit score and a lower home price.”
The average sale price of the non-Energy Star homes in the study was
$218,461 (for 2,183 square feet), and $221,919 for the Energy Star homes (for
2,283 square feet). The homes also came from fairly prosperous zipcodes with
average income of about $73,000 and an unemployment rate of 6.4 percent. On
this map, the Energy-Star homes studied in the paper are noted in red and
the control homes in blue (data was unavailable for states like California
that aren’t represented):
As best as the researchers can tell in their data, there’s little visible
difference between the two groups that might explain their varying default
rates, other than the efficiency of their homes.
“There’s always going to be some portion of unobserved variables that
might explain some of this result,” says Kaza, who’s a researcher with the
_UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Community Capital_ (http://www.ccc.unc.edu/) . “But
we tried as much as we can to make sure control and treatment groups are
roughly similar.”
He can’t say, though, exactly why the default rates are significantly
different. Does the added cost of all those utility bills really add up to the
difference between defaulting on a mortgage or staying on top of it? Or is
there some other explanation at play – that, for instance, the owners of
energy-efficient homes are happier with where they live and more likely to
try hard to stay there? Green homes can also be healthier ones, meaning that
the families who live there may have lower medical expenses tugging at the
family budget from another direction.
“But under certain circumstances,” says Cliff Majersik, the executive
director of IMT, “you can act on data like this without knowing which portion
comes from lower utility bills, which portion comes from healthier homes,
which portion comes from happier homeowners.”
This evidence is enough, he argues, to justify adjusting federal mortgage
guidelines to take into account the fact that would-be owners of
energy-efficient homes pose a lower risk of default. A similar argument has been
_made about “location-efficient” homes_
(http://www.cnt.org/tcd/location-efficiency/lem) , where homeowners arguably have more money to spend on housing
as a result of their lower transportation costs. One day, it’s possible
that federal mortgage guidelines could pursue these two ideas in tandem,
weighting the benefits of housing that comes with both lower utility and
transportation costs – and, in the process, increasing market demand for it.
Top image: _Pupes_ (http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-718555p1.html)
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Keywords: _utility bills_
(http://www.theatlanticcities.com/topics/utility-bills/) , _default_ (http://www.theatlanticcities.com/topics/default/) ,
_Mortgages_ (http://www.theatlanticcities.com/topics/mortgages/) , _energy
efficiency_ (http://www.theatlanticcities.com/topics/energy-efficiency/)
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Sierra Club National Beyond Coal Campaign
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Any idea what happened to the WV Energy Efficiency Building codes
(87-CSR-4)? SB 251 went to Senate Judiciary, but was never taken up.
Other Dept. of Commerce rules are in SB 250, but I can't find any
reference to the energy building codes in the version on the
Legislature's web page?
Jim Kotcon
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New study by IMT that could be helpful to EE and building codes
advocates!
Energy-Efficient Homes Are Much Less Likely to Go Into Default
Emily Badger ( http://www.theatlanticcities.com/authors/emily-badger/ )
Mar 19, 2013
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/03/energy-efficient-homes-are…
Green builders and environmental advocates have long suspected it to be
true that families living in energy-efficient homes might be less likely
to get in trouble making their monthly mortgage payments. Their energy
bills are lower and more predictable, without those wild swings between
summer’s air conditioning costs and winter’s heating oil delivery. It
also seems plausible that a homeowner who has weighed the up-front costs
of energy improvements over the long-term payoff in lower utility bills
might be equally conscientious in sizing up the risks of a 30-year
mortgage.
But there’s never been hard data to support any of this – let alone to
help make the case that energy efficiency should be baked into how we
underwrite mortgages.
A new study released today (
http://www.imt.org/resources/detail/home-energy-efficiency-and-mortgage-ris…
) attempts for the first time to quantify the connection between energy
efficiency and default risk. The research, funded by the Institute for
Market Transformation ( http://www.imt.org/ ) and led by University of
North Carolina researcher Nikhil Kaza, looked at 71,000 nationally
representative owner-occupied single-family homes, 21,000 of them with
Energy Star certifications (
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cbd_guidebook.cbd_guidebook_apply_3
). And it turns out the energy-efficient houses were 32 percent less
likely to go into default when sized up against comparable homes without
that rating.
The study looked at loans that originated between 2002 and 2012,
spanning the mortgage crisis. And it also found that the more
energy-efficient the house, the lower the default risk.
The researchers controlled for the size and age of the houses,
neighborhood income, climate, home value, local unemployment rates,
utility prices and borrower credit scores, among other variables. And so
this is not a snapshot of pricey solar-powered homes compared to
1950s-era bungalows.
“We’re going to similar homes in the same neighborhoods, with the same
price, with the same credit scores of the borrowers,” says Robert
Sahidi, a co-author of the report’s executive summary and the director
of the Energy Efficiency Finance Policy program at IMT. “It’s not like
were picking somebody making $100,000 and comparing it to somebody
making $50,000 with a lower credit score and a lower home price.”
The average sale price of the non-Energy Star homes in the study was
$218,461 (for 2,183 square feet), and $221,919 for the Energy Star homes
(for 2,283 square feet). The homes also came from fairly prosperous
zipcodes with average income of about $73,000 and an unemployment rate
of 6.4 percent. On this map, the Energy-Star homes studied in the paper
are noted in red and the control homes in blue (data was unavailable for
states like California that aren’t represented):
As best as the researchers can tell in their data, there’s little
visible difference between the two groups that might explain their
varying default rates, other than the efficiency of their homes.
“There’s always going to be some portion of unobserved variables that
might explain some of this result,” says Kaza, who’s a researcher with
the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Community Capital (
http://www.ccc.unc.edu/ ). “But we tried as much as we can to make sure
control and treatment groups are roughly similar.”
He can’t say, though, exactly why the default rates are significantly
different. Does the added cost of all those utility bills really add up
to the difference between defaulting on a mortgage or staying on top of
it? Or is there some other explanation at play – that, for instance, the
owners of energy-efficient homes are happier with where they live and
more likely to try hard to stay there? Green homes can also be healthier
ones, meaning that the families who live there may have lower medical
expenses tugging at the family budget from another direction.
“But under certain circumstances,” says Cliff Majersik, the executive
director of IMT, “you can act on data like this without knowing which
portion comes from lower utility bills, which portion comes from
healthier homes, which portion comes from happier homeowners.”
This evidence is enough, he argues, to justify adjusting federal
mortgage guidelines to take into account the fact that would-be owners
of energy-efficient homes pose a lower risk of default. A similar
argument has been made about “location-efficient” homes (
http://www.cnt.org/tcd/location-efficiency/lem ), where homeowners
arguably have more money to spend on housing as a result of their lower
transportation costs. One day, it’s possible that federal mortgage
guidelines could pursue these two ideas in tandem, weighting the
benefits of housing that comes with both lower utility and
transportation costs – and, in the process, increasing market demand for
it.
Top image: Pupes ( http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-718555p1.html
)/Shutterstock ( http://www.shutterstock.com/ )
Keywords: utility bills (
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/topics/utility-bills/ ), default (
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/topics/default/ ), Mortgages (
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/topics/mortgages/ ), energy efficiency
( http://www.theatlanticcities.com/topics/energy-efficiency/ )
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(614)563-9543 ( tel:%28614%29563-9543 )
Senior Campaign Representative for Energy Efficiency
Sierra Club National Beyond Coal Campaign
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Something for our EE campaign? Or maybe WVEC?
JBK
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