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Find steps you can take to incrase your home's efficiency and track your impact. 

Home energy saving tips

Search major retailers to compare energy ratings for appliances

Find WaterSense certified products, learn about water saving programs, and see how much you can save.

User-friendly guides on health home products

Information on Home Energy Score (HES) programs and resources for leveraging HES in real estate transactions

Information on resources and cash incentives for energy efficiency upgrades





 

Bilingual website from Energy Trust of Oregon that provides a one-stop shop for Spanish speaking customers. 


 

Google's Project Sunroof allows homeowners to search by home address to discover solar PV potential, personalize your analysis, and compare finance options.

Step-by-step resources to help you see if solar energy is a smart choice for you.

Information on Energy Trust Incentives, Oregon rebates, and federal tax credits for solar power generation and storage. 

Solar Oregon provides information, leads tours, delivers workshops, and helps homeowners and communities accelerate the development of solar energy in Oregon and Southwest Washington.

USDOE Study (2015) showing that home buyers pay an average of $4 more per watt of PV installed for solar powered homes. This equates to a premium of about $15,000 for a typical PV system. 

Tips on using energy efficiency and high performance construction as selling points for your listings.

Resources for complying with Portland's mandatory Home Energy Score program. 

Resources to help home buyers and sellers uderstand Portland's Home Energy Score Program.

Understand the key features and benefits of Earth Advantage Certified homes

Learn how to market homes that have received Energy Trust EPS certification.

A glossary of sales themes and messaging that can be used to market energy efficient homes. 

Zero Energy Project offers articles and resources specific to zero energy homes to keep brokers ahead of the curve

Finance up to 15% of "as completed" home value for energy improvements.

FHA borrowers can borrow more when they buy an energy efficient home. Lenders can provide a 2% stretcy on homebuyer debt-to-income ratios on purchase or refinance loans for homes that earn or demonstrate they will improve to a Home Energy Score of 6 or higher.

Energy Trust of Oregon's Savings Within Reach On-Bill Repayment provides increased incentives and on-bill financing for income-qualified homeowners.

Community Energy Project's network of financial lenders provides a wide variety of loan options - including zero-money down financing and on-bill financing - to help homeowners improve the performance, comfort, efficiency, health and safety of their homes within their budgets.

"The Market Value of Energy Efficient and Green Certified Northwest Homes" (October 2015). Produced with support from Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance. 



 

Green features, labels, and certifications increase the marketability of a home, but do not automatically translate into increased appraised value. Use this guide to help increase the probability of a fair and accurate appraisal of your high performance home. 

Residential green and energy efficient appraisal report addendum made by appraisers, for appraisers.