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Explore ENERGY STAR® certified homes and apartments

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first offered the ENERGY STAR label for new homes in 1995. The program created a national benchmark for superior energy efficiency in homebuilding, with a strong foundation of building science principles and third-party inspections by home energy raters.  

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Today, the ENERGY STAR program requirements for residential new construction continue to provide the nation’s homebuilders with a tried-and-true approach to increasing energy efficiency and protecting the environment, while helping both homebuyers and renters to find energy-efficient homes and apartments. 

Built better from the ground up

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ENERGY STAR certified homes and apartments are designed and constructed to be more efficient, exceeding minimum energy code requirements by at least 10 percent. They must be independently verified to meet the EPA’s rigorous requirements for insulation, windows, air sealing, and HVAC systems. These features are carefully engineered to improve comfort and performance for the life of the home.

Today, 2,500+ builders, developers, and manufactured housing plants are active in the ENERGY STAR program — including most of the nation’s 25 largest home builders. The program’s impact includes:

•    190,000 ENERGY STAR certified homes and apartments built in 2023, or 12% of all new homes built in America that year,
•    2.7 million homes and apartments that have earned the ENERGY STAR to date,
•    4 million metric tons of nationwide CO2 emissions reductions.

Two million homes — and counting!

Watch this short video to learn more about ENERGY STAR and celebrate our milestone of two million ENERGY STAR certified homes and apartments! 

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ENERGY STAR Builder Partner

“People experience a really improved quality of life. We’ll get stories where they had a little girl that was on an inhaler every day, and after she moved into an ENERGY STAR home, she got to reduce her medication. She felt better every day living in that home.” 

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ENERGY STAR Builder Partner

“I think ENERGY STAR has done a great job in making sure the bar keeps rising. And what they haven’t done is make that bar so high that it’s unaffordable for the builder."

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ENERGY STAR Homeowner

"When I opened my first bill I was shocked at how low my bill was! The air conditioning keeps the house extremely comfortable and my attic stays amazingly cool during the summer. I would definitely recommend an ENERGY STAR house to anyone that I know.” 

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