The U.S Department of Energy's Home Energy Score Program is geared toward motivating consumers to undertake energy and cost saving improvements in their
homes. Through the use of the Home Energy Scoring Tool, assessors can provide consumers with credible and useful
information about their homes at a relatively affordable cost. The tool generates a score, a label, and customized
recommendations.
Although many home energy software tools provide useful information to homeowners, the Home Energy Score can only be generated using the Home Energy Scoring
Tool. The tool applies a standardized set of questions, calculation methods, and assumptions. This ensures
that consumers, such as homebuyers considering multiple homes, can compare the Home Energy Scores of different
homes and be confident that the comparisons are valid. Software developers of existing home audit tools who
wish to avoid double entry of data by their users can embed the Home Energy Scoring Tool methodology directly
in their software using the
Home Energy Scoring Tool APIs
.
With funding from the Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed the Home Energy Scoring Tool, based on the
Home Energy Saver
methodology. Complete technical documentation is available
here
.
For more information on the Home Energy Score, visit
www.homeenergyscore.gov.
