H/T to 20 years of Energy Star, the great greendaddy of the green movement
Over the past 20 years, increases in energy effiency associated with the Energy Star program haved saved people about $230 billion on utility bills and prevented more than 1.7 billion metric tons of carbon pollution.
To 20 years of Energy Star, the great greendaddy of the green movement!
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I would say Energy Star has had major impact to date in energy efficiency, but it has not truly “Green” in the home building sense until recently. In fact, as of last year, the residential requirements for Energy Star (Technically, it’s to be referred to as “ENERGYSTAR”, much like Realtor must be trailed with the ®®®®®®) have gotten so rigorously Green (different from energy efficient) that many builders, myself included, as well as OG&E’s Positive Energy building program, have abandoned it.
Not so much for any social or political reason, but they’ve taken such a left turn in every sense of the term, that for the average house, it’s increasingly cost-prohibitive to achieve given tight lending and appraisal issues right now. Demand is certainly there for energy performance/savings, but not to this extreme for Green, at least yet in OK.
Give me OG&E’s Positive Energy program with a good solid HERS rating verifying the home’s energy performance any day. I can sell that.