1. RESNET 1 RESNET Energy Smart Builder Steve Baden, RESNET Executive Director & Mark Jansen, Energy Efficient Homes Midwest www.resnet.us

2. RESNET 2 Trend in Housing Market

3. RESNET 3 Trend to HERS Index in Housing Market In 2012 128,000 Homes Energy Rated and Issued HERS Index Score – 35% of all New Homes Sold in U.S. To date over 1.3 million homes rated in US.

4. RESNET 4 HERS Index Score Included in Building Energy Codes Arkansas Colorado Idaho Kansas Massachusetts New Mexico New York

5. RESNET 5 Why Are Builders Using the HERS Index Associated Press “Homebuilders see one of the biggest advantages of buying a newly built home is energy efficiency. To take advantage of this opportunity, homebuilders are ‘boiling energy efficiency down to something every buyer understands’.”

6. RESNET 6 National Builders Committing to Marketing HERS Index of Homes

7. RESNET 7 Builders Committing to Have All Homes Rated and Marketing HERS Index Regional & Local Builders (200+) Alabama Kansas South Carolina Arizona Kentucky Tennessee Arkansas Maryland Texas California Massachusetts Utah Colorado Michigan Virginia Conneticut Missouri Washington Delaware Montana West Virginia District of Columbia Nebraska Wisconsin Florida North Carolina Georgia Ohio Illinois Oklahoma Indiana Oregon Iowa Pennsylvania

8. RESNET 8 Kentucky Ashkettle Home Builders James Monroe Homes Sanctuary Homes Ayers Custom Homes Jim Peterson Builder Sarasota Properties Ball Homes Jim French Builder Schmidt Builders Briggs Homes Jimmy Nash Homes Shoulders Construction Bright Built Homes K&B Homes Superior Realty Captiva Luxury Homes K&R Builders Taylor Homes Elite Homes Kentucky Capital Thompson Homes Freedom Homes MD Custom Homes Gale Property Management Mike Kerwin Homes Hodges, Heathman & Conrad Novel Homes Holiday Homes Padgett Construction HM Homebuilders Pinnacle Homes Inverness Potterhill Homes Jack Band Builder Priority Homes Jagoe Homes RTS Builders

9. RESNET 9 How Can a Builder Participate? Enter into Memorandum of Understanding with RESNET committing to have all homes rated and market homes’ HERS Index. Key wording of MOU: All homes constructed by XXXX will be tested and inspected by a RESNET Rater following RESNET’s Standards, and provided with a HERS Index produced by a RESNET accredited rating software program.

10. RESNET 10 Energy Smart Builder MOU http://www1.resnet.us/builders/mou.aspx

11. RESNET 11 REM/Rate HERS Index Certificate

12. RESNET 12 Why HERS Index Commitment Effective way to differentiate homes from existing homes on market – DOE estimates that average new home built in U.S. is 30% more efficient than average existing home. No extra cost to produce RESNET HERS Index or enter into MOU with RESNET– Rating protocols and software calculations the same Opportunity to gain recognition from RESNET, a national non-profit organization whose Raters have rated over a million homes using RESNET’s Standards

13. RESNET 13 EPA Includes HERS Index in ENERGY STAR Certificate

14. RESNET 14 New Interactive HERS Index Tool Delaware

15. RESNET 15 Builder Marketing of HERS Index

16. RESNET 16 Media Coverage of HERS Index National and Local Media Coverage

17. RESNET 17 Blue Grass Energy

18. RESNET 18 Promoting the HERS Index February 14, 2011

19. RESNET 19 San Diego Union Tribune

20. RESNET 20 Make Plans to Attend the 2014 RESNET Conference – Atlanta, Georgia