About E-Star
E-Star™ is a Colorado non-profit organization committed
to advancing energy efficiency in housing. To meet this objective,
E-Star partners with, supports, and provides information through
its Energy Ratings to participants in the housing industry.
This includes homeowners and homebuyers, builders, Home Energy
Raters, real estate professionals, code officials, and utilities.
E-Star understands the diverse concerns of each of these groups
in respect to energy efficiency and its interrelation with
factors such as construction schedules, comfort, home value,
environmental issues, and cost concerns.
E-Star’s Philosophy
Advancing energy-efficiency in homes has far-reaching effects from
local to global. To start with the individual, decreased utility use
saves the homeowner money, and may qualify a homebuyer for special
energy-efficient mortgages with additional purchasing power. E-Star
wants to make homeownership more affordable and easier to accomplish.
Higher energy efficiency correlates with higher quality; another
homeowner benefit. At the level of the local economy, E-Star pursues its
aims by supporting the business community that is helping to create
higher quality, energy-efficient homes, as well as sell and finance
them. This includes the builders, raters, real estate professionals,
code officials, and utilities. E-Star helps builders distinguish
themselves in the market, adding revenue, while promoting job growth for
more knowledgeable and higher-quality workers in this sector. At the
state and national level, decreased energy use means less reliance on
centralized fuel sources, less outages, and less vulnerability to
terrorist attack or events in volatile oil-producing areas of the world,
such as the Middle East. As a nation, efficient energy use means that
the money saved in energy can be spent elsewhere. E-Star contributes to
better use of national resources without sacrifices in quality of life
or standard of living. At the global level, E-Star’s efforts result in
less burning of fossil fuels, which harm the environment and decrease
air quality. E-Star’s environmental impact spans from the air in an
individual home to contributing to decreased pollution in the world at
large.
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