THE NEED A strong residential energy code: • Immediately lowers energy costs to the homeowner, creating a positive cash flow from Day One. • Reduces the cost of construction because better insulated homes require smaller furnaces. • Protects homebuyers from high energy costs, reducing risk of foreclosure. • Supports Ohio jobs for the design and manufacturing of insulation and other efficiency technologies, and provides Ohio a competitive edge in these industries • Reduces health and environmental effects of increased energy consumption. • Allows the State of Ohio to obtain free or low-cost training for code officials and builders from the U. S. Department of Energy. • Allows consumers to spend the money saved on energy bills in other sectors of Ohio’s economy.
RECOMMENDATIONS • Ohio should adopt the 2009 IECC and set in place policies to require the adoption of the IECC immediately after a new version is published every three years. • Ohio should adopt the climate zone map created by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Natalie Fox Sierra Club Ohio Chapter 131 North High Street Suite 605 Columbus, OH 43215 (614) 461-0734 natalie.fox@sierraclub.org
Nolan Moser Staff Attorney, Director of Energy & Air Programs Ohio Environmental Council 1207 Grandview Avenue, Ste. 201 Columbus, OH 43212 (614) 487-7506 Nolan@theOEC.org www.theOEC.org
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