Home Star: A Federal Program To Help Create Jobs By Promoting Residential Energy Efficient Upgrades
I found this blog post written by John Thomas in Colorado and thought it was important enough to warrant a re-blog!
Home Star: A Federal Program To Help Create Jobs By Promoting Residential Energy Efficient Upgrades
The Home Star program is well on its way to becoming official legislation. An outgrowth of Vice President Biden’s Retrofit America program announced last October, the Home Star program is rapidly gaining momentum. The program is designed to provide incentives to homeowners to make energy efficient upgrades in their home. The program will be implemented on the state and local levels.
Homeowners can choose from two types of incentives:
The Silver Star program is a lower cost approach for energy saving measures that are relatively easy to implement. This would cover such things as air sealing, improved insulation, duct sealing, replace of doors and windows in addition to furnaces, air conditioners and appliances. The program aims to use existing standards for qualifying products to a level sufficient to stimulate consumer interest and demand for energy efficient materials and mechanical systems.
The Gold Star program starts with a comprehensive energy audit followed with a plan to implement energy saving measures to provide the greatest total return. This program will utilize the latest in building science to achieve superior energy efficient performance. The key to this approach is that it is based on performance rather than a specific product or upgrade. The intent is to create the opportunity for free market forces to drive the best technology solutions that achieve the best results.
Details of the program including the administrative and quality assurance processes are still being worked out. Home Star is designed to be market driven with the hopes of stimulating economic development nationwide. The program expects to jumpstart a new energy efficient upgrade industry with the creation of over 150,000 jobs over the next two years.
In addition to creating new jobs, Home Star aims to help reduce energy waste and greenhouse gas emissions in homes that have been upgraded by 20% to 40%. Homeowners will benefit from healthier, more comfortable homes and lower utility bills.
To learn more about Home Star visit the Home Star Program website page. You can also contact me at the links below. I would be happy to discuss the program with you and explore how you may benefit from energy efficient upgrades in your home.
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