About Us

Home Performance Washington is a membership organization which brings together residential energy professionals and service providers, conservation programs, educational institutions and other stakeholders to fight climate change and foster economic development by enabling a highly effective whole-house energy retrofit industry in Washington State.

Our members include a majority of companies in the state offering residential energy audits or whole house energy services in Washington, most of the educational institutions offering weatherization training, and a growing number of energy conservation programs.

For more information, contact us by emailing [] or leave a detailed voice message at (425)390-4503. Voice message are delivered to us by email immediately. We'll try to get in touch with you promptly.

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Our Vision is that homeowners in Washington will have ready access to energy professionals they can trust to recommend and implement whole-house energy services that lower energy bills and reduce environmental impact while improving levels of home comfort, health, durability and safety.

Our Mission is to advance highly effective residential energy services in Washington State by:

• Promoting awareness of the benefits of whole-house energy services.
• Bringing energy professionals together to improve their ability to efficiently offer high quality services to customers.
• Ensuring the convenient availability of training programs that lead to nationally recognized professional certification.
• Supporting energy conservation programs to advance their goals in partnership with home performance companies.
• Working in close cooperation with aligned local, regional and national organizations.

Our Home Performance Service Providers pledge to:

• Understand how whole-house energy services, based on diagnostics and building-science, can result in deep energy savings while simultaneously enhancing indoor air quality, thermal comfort, and combustion safety.

• Recommend that each customer develop a whole-house energy strategy and implement improvements in the appropriate order to maximize the quality and effectiveness of the final result.
• Ensure that employees and subcontractors have the appropriate knowledge and skills to effectively and safely implement solutions that will work well over the life of the home.
• Value integrity and honesty in dealing with people and their property.

Our Policy Platform:

Support for whole house retrofits is Washington State is growing.  But there is danger that well-meaning programs under development could fail to permanently transform our residential energy services industry. Our recently released Policy Platform document attempts to begins to lay the groundwork for effective market transformation.

• HPW Policy Platform

Efficiency First

Home Performance Washington is our state's affiliate chapter of Efficiency First.

We work working closely with Efficiency First in promoting federal policy consistent with our mission and in the search for "Best Practices" worthy of nationwide replication.

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Home Performance Washington Officers and Committee Chairs

Officers

Executive Director	Ammen Jordan
President	David Bangs
Vice-President	Yves Vetter
Secretary	Charlie Rogers
Treasurer	Gary Wood

Policy Committee
Advocate for effective legislation, rules and program design to enable a permanent, financially sustainable home performance industry.

Chair	David Bangs
Legislative Chair	Ray Benish

Technical Standards Committee
Promote the adoption of consistent and effective home performance technical standards and quality assurance.

Chair	Dan Wildenhaus
Co-Chair	Bob Thoreson

Industry Marketing Committee
Promote widespread awareness and adoption of home performance.

Co-Chair	Gregg Hartwell
Vice-Chair	Open Position

Service Provider Development Committee
Help home performance service providers grow and succeed, through workforce development and connections to business support services.

Contractor Chair	Jason Lear
Auditor Chair	Dean Martinson

Membership Committee
Promote membership in Home Performance Washington, and ensure the qualifications of Service Providers.

Chair

Wayne Apostolik

To contact any of us, email [] or leave a voice email by calling (425)390-4503 and indicate the person to whom you would like the message to be forwarded.