Building Energy Efficient Homes
Ken on February 12th, 2009
A builders challenge program, launched in 2008 by the U. S. Department of Energy, is a voluntary energy-savings program with a goal to build homes that achieve 70 or better on the EnergySmart Home Scale. The scale allows homebuyers to determine how the energy efficiency of a particular home compares to the DOE energy efficiency goal and other homes.
The DOE Builders Challenge encourages homebuilders in the US to construct 220,000 high-performance energy-efficient homes by 2012. The 1.3 million homes to be built to the challenge standard between now and 2030 are anticipated to cut carbon emissions equivalent to removing 606,000 cars off the road each year. [U.S. DOE EnergySmart Home Scale]
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I wonder why the target is set at 220,000? Isn’t it too low a target from now to 2012?
Any idea how much more expensive (or cheaper) to build a “high-performance energy-efficient home”?
Ben did not rate this post.I believe this target is more realistic and achievable. The price depends on location and individual builder. I encourage you to check out these participating builders.
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