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Residential Contractors: Build Your Business and Expand Your Skills

New York Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® is an innovative program preparing contractors to deliver the next generation of energy efficiency services to existing 1-4 family homes, employing a ‘house-as-a-system' philosophy.

The Home Performance with ENERGY STAR^® Program — available in the New York Energy $mart^SM territory—provides low-cost training so that you can become an Accredited Home Performance with ENERGY STAR contractor.

As an Accredited Home Performance Contractor, new and existing customers will appreciate your depth of building technology knowledge. Through the use of diagnostic tools that clearly demonstrate cost savings, you will be able to offer:

• More efficient heating and cooling systems
• Reduced air leakage
• Lower energy costs
• A more comfortable and safe home

Home Performance training can help you identify and offer solutions to many important homeowner problems:

• Cold and drafty rooms
• Poor Indoor air quality
• High energy bills
• Ice dams
• Rooms that don't properly heat or cool

Find out about support and incentives offered to contractors and how to get involved today!