HUD to Host Webinar Series on New Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards

(Nov. 5, 2024) The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is hosting a series of webinars about the agency’s new minimum energy efficiency standards.

The new HUD standards establish the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) 90.1-2019 as minimum energy efficiency standards for new construction for certain HUD and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-covered programs. HUD’s April 26, 2024 standards Notice goes into effect beginning as early as this year for the HOME program and the Housing Trust Fund, and in 2025 and 2026 for other HUD and USDA programs, including new construction of Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured Multifamily Housing.

According to HUD, the adoption of new energy standards yields significant annual and lifetime cost savings to homeowners and renters, improves resident health and comfort, and increases the climate resilience of both single-family and Multifamily-covered housing. HUD last updated its energy standards in 2015. Read more about the new energy efficiency standards here, and sign up for HUD’s webinar series here.

Contact: Annalyse Komoroske Denio, akomoroskedenio@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8866