Sec. 2. Department of Energy Home Energy Score Program
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The Secretary of Energy shall maintain a Home Energy Score Program to provide to homeowners and borrowers, on a voluntary basis at the request of the homeowner or borrower, a score document for the purpose of enabling the cost-effective reduction in the energy use of those homes. Score documents shall be available under the Program for both new and existing homes. A score document shall grade the home on its energy consumption for heating, cooling, water heating, and other variables the Secretary considers appropriate to enable achieving cost-effective reduction in the energy use of the home, so that it may be easily compared to other homes.
The Program may include the alternate use of any comparable residential rating system, as approved by the Secretary of Energy through published guidelines. The Program shall provide for home assessments, conducted pursuant to a request by a homeowner or borrower in accordance with section 2(a), by assessors who hold a relevant qualifying credential approved by the Secretary of Energy, to collect energy use information during an approved walk-through of the home for the purpose of creating a score document for the home.
A score document under the Program shall include— energy use information collected during an assessment described in subsection
(b)for a home, differentiated by specific energy uses and provided on a relative scale based on benchmarks set within the Program; and cost-effective recommendations of means to improve the score and energy efficiency of the home.