California Climate & Energy Collaborative

How California builders are adapting to state’s super-strict energy mandates

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Weston is Pardee’s first master-planned community to offer solar for purchase or lease on every single home. This feature foreshadows a significant change in California’s building code, going into effect in 2020, that will make the state the first in the nation to mandate all new homes are net zero ready, meaning they’re built to…

500 home energy score assessors have now scored over 75,000 homes nationwide

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“The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s)  Home Energy Score program (the Score) is celebrating a milestone this month: Since the program launch in 2012, over 500 individuals are qualified to offer the Score, a miles-per-gallon energy rating system for homes. These individuals – known as Home Energy Score Assessors (Assessors) – spend about an hour walking through…