To determine a home’s Energy Performance Score, third-party verifiers look at a number of factors including size, level of insulation, air leakage, heating and cooling systems, major appliances, lighting and hot water heating. Then the score is prominently displayed on the house for home buyers.
The EPS does not replace, but rather, works with other energy efficiency and green building certificaiton programs. It was created to support and clarigy energy-efficiency and green building claims and to provide home buyers a way to compare homes across different types of certificaions based on the same criteria.
