This week we talk to John Weldy about energy efficiency and home affordability. We learnhow smaller homes tend to be more energy efficient, but they are penalized by currentenergy efficiency measuring systems, which make it hard to compare energy use from hometo home.The good news is, there are a couple of easy ways to know whether or not a new home willbe more energy efficient than similar models, and we talk about how consumers can protectthemselves as well as how local governments can adjust their building codes to put smallerhomes on equal footing as larger homes when energy efficiency requirementsMr. Weldy is a Purdue graduate and has been in the factory-built housing industry for 26years now. He's been the Director of Engineering with Clayton Homes since 2005. {Fortransparency, please note we are an independent manufactured home dealer that sellsClayton Homes products.}https://www.claytonhomes.com/He's a registered professional engineer on the civil and structural side in 39 States. He holdsInternational Code Council Certifications for residential inspections for all disciplines. Justfinished serving on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's ManufacturedHousing Consensus Committee, where he was the chairman of the Technical Systemsubcommittee as well as the chair of several taskforce groups. He's an active member of theManufactured Housing Institute and on the board of Systems Building Research Alliance.Relevant links to today’s conversation include:Information about ISO 14001 registration: https://www.claytonhomes.com/studio/what-is-iso-14001/Information on the Home Energy Score [HES] developed by the Department of Energy: https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/downloads/home-energy-scoreInformation on the Home Energy Rating System [HERS] developed by the Residential EnergyService Network: https://www.hersindex.com/hers-index/what-is-the-hers-index/Information on the Energy Star program as well as information on Clayton’s Energy SmartHome Package: https://www.energystar.gov/https://www.claytonhomes.com/studio/saving-big-with-green-energy-smart-home-packages/Finally, information from CPS Energy about energy efficiency in your home: https://www.cpsenergy.com/en/my-home/savenow/energy-saving--tips.html

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