If more complicated testing is done during the audit, that will also increase the cost, as will the addition of a Home Energy Rating System (HERS) certification, "an additional certification that ...

Its aim is to incentivize small, all-electric buildings. Since the 2020 code update, the county’s used a Home Energy Rating System, the industry standard for predicting a home's energy ...

First, home buyers want to be able to understand ... The challenge for builders then becomes an endless aisle of energy rating systems to choose from and not one that is required and not two ...