Policy Initiatives

RESNET serves as the voice for the entire home energy rating industry. Below are policy initiatives adopted by RESNET in support of the home energy rating industry:

• Home Energy Improvement Initiative

  RESNET Plan for Repossessed Homes

• Policy Initiatives to Improve Residential Energy Efficiency

  RESNET Proposal to New President and Congress

• RESNET Policy on Energy Efficient Mortgages

  Policy Statement on Revitalizing Energy Mortgages

• RESNET Procedure for Conducting and Documenting Worst-Case Analysis

  Procedures for developing worst-case analysis thresholds

• HERS® to be Verification Mechanism for all Federal Energy Efficiency Programs

  Policy white paper submitted to the U.S. Department of Energy.

• HERS® Industry Blue Print for Action

  Policy initiatives adopted at the 2001 RESNET Conference to Take Residential Energy Efficiency into the 21st Century.

• RESNET Whitepaper on Using HERS® to Improve Energy Code Compliance

  Policy white paper prepared by the RESNET Task Force on Code Performance

• RESNET Environmental Trading Action Plan
• Introducing Transparency and Rationality into the Home Buying Process

  Policy whitepaper on providing greater accuracy in determining housing affordability