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What is ENERGY STAR®?

Whether you are looking to buy or sell a house, you may have seen a listing with amenities listed as ENERGY STAR®. What is ENERGY STAR you may wonder? If you're looking to sell your home, ENERGY STAR products make a great addition to marketing your home to potential buyers. If you're looking to buy, ENERGY STAR products make a great addition to rounding out your future home.

ENERGY STAR is a program founded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in 1992 that promotes products with a higher energy efficiency rating. Utilizing the program provides information on the energy consumption of products and devices using different standardized methods. The EPA first introduced the ENERGY STAR label to recognize energy-efficient computers. Since then, the label has grown to identify efficient products across more than 70 product categories. As of 2014, nearly 90 percent of Americans recognize the ENERGY STAR label. Organizations from small school districts to large Fortune 500 companies have embraced its value. Families and businesses have saved $360 billion on utility bills and prevented more than 2.5 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions over the past two decades.

ENERGY STAR products range from your home's furnace, refrigerator, dishwasher, water heater, and A/C; to even your doors and windows! To identify if an appliance or other amenity is ENERGY STAR certified, look for the blue ENERGY STAR logo, or the yellow ENERGY GUIDE sticker. For a full list of ENERGY STAR energy-efficient products, click here.

If you have ENERGY STAR products in your home, or are looking for them in your future home, be sure to disclose this to your real estate salesperson!

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