AboutRatings

We offer a RESNET Certified Home Energy Rater.

We offer licensed Home Energy Raters, registered with both ENERGY STAR and DOE
(Department of Energy). If you would like to find out where your home stands on the
energy conservation front, and where you may get the best return on your energy
improvement investment, then you have come to the right place. Let's start by
explaining what an energy audit and a home energy rating is.

Home energy ratings provide a standard measurement of a home’s energy efficiency.
Ratings are used for both new and existing homes. In new homes, ratings often verify
energy performance for the ENERGY STAR homes program, energy efficient
mortgages, and energy code compliance. Homeowners who want to upgrade the
home’s energy efficiency can use the energy rating to evaluate and pinpoint specific,
cost-effective improvements. For existing homes, homeowners can receive a report
listing cost-effective options for improving the home’s energy rating. An energy rating
allows a homebuyer to easily compare the energy performance of the homes being
considered.

What Is a Comprehensive Home Energy Rating?:
The purpose of the Comprehensive Home Energy Audit is to cause improvement to be
made to the audited home. The Comprehensive Audit includes an evaluation,
performance testing and proposed treatments for improvement of an existing home. The
evaluation shall include a review of the data collected from any previous energy audit or
survey, any further required measurement and performance testing, combustion
appliance testing, and a computerized simulation analysis of the home's energy
performance and a calculation of the energy and environmental savings from improving
the energy performance of the home. The performance analysis shall determine the
scope of work for the home. The qualified Auditor shall guide the homeowner to a
Certified Contractor. A homeowner may elect to go through this process without a
requirement of a prior Home Energy Survey or a Diagnostic Energy Survey.

Projected ratings – Ratings performed prior to the construction of a home or prior to
the installation of energy improvements to an existing home.

Confirmed ratings – Ratings completed using data gathered from an on-site
inspection, which could include performance testing of the home.

Confirmed ratings involve an on-site inspection of a home by a residential energy
efficiency professional, a home energy rater. Home energy raters are trained and
certified by a RESNET accredited home energy rater training provider.

The home energy rater reviews the home to identify its energy characteristics, such as
insulation levels, window efficiency, wall-to-window ratios, the heating and cooling
system efficiency, the solar orientation of the home, and the water heating system.
Performance testing, such as a blower door test for air leakage and duct leakage, is
usually part of the rating.

The data gathered by the home energy rater is entered into a RESNET accredited
computer program and translated into rating score. The home receives a score between
1 and 100, depending on its relative efficiency. An estimate of the home’s energy costs
is also provided in the report.

(Source: Residential Energy Services Network, www.natresnet.org)

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(*) Check with your electric provider or tax professional as there may be government
programs to offset some or all of this cost.