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This chapter contains data on two market transformation programs that reach across the United States and to other countries: the ENERGY STAR program, jointly administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. It also includes data on three professional certifications and five case studies of high performance buildings. The main points from this chapter are summarized below:

• More than 100,000 new homes qualified for the ENERGY STAR label in 2010, almost a quarter of all the single-family homes permitted in the United States that year. (9.1.1)


• Approximately 35,000 homes were retrofitted in 2010 under Home Performance with ENERGY STAR, a 41% increase from 2009 and a 158% increase from 2008. (9.1.2)


• In the commercial sector, the ENERGY STAR label has been awarded to more than 22,000 buildings containing a total of 2.6 billion square feet of floorspace, which represents 3.7% of all commercial floorspace in the United States. (9.1.3), (3.2.2)


• As of February 2012, there were 10,207 LEED-certified projects in the United States, a 58% jump from the number of certified projects in December 2010. (9.2.6)

The number of ENERGY STAR qualified homes continued to increase in 2010, reaching 24% of the single-family home market. Over 100,000 new homes qualified for the ENERGY STAR label in 2009, more than a fifth of all the single-family homes permitted in the United States in that year. ENERGY STAR qualified homes represented more than 40%half of new homes in in the District of Columbia, Iowa, Nevada, Oklahoma, and TexasHawaii, Nevada, Iowa, and Arizona. (9.1.1)