EPA Recognizes Meritage Homes With Fifth Consecutive ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year—Sustained Excellence Award for Its L...
April 06 2017 - 10:05AM
Meritage Homes (NYSE:MTH) has received the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2017 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year –
Sustained Excellence Award. This is the seventh year that Meritage
Homes has been recognized as a leader in the EPA’s ENERGY STAR for
Homes Program and the fifth year Meritage Homes has been honored
for sustained leadership in protecting the environment.
“This award reaffirms Meritage’s commitment to energy-efficient
homebuilding, which results in healthier, safer, quieter and more
comfortable homes, while also reducing utility bills,” said C.R.
Herro, Vice President of Environmental Affairs for Meritage Homes.
“Our team continues to lead by advocating for improved residential
building standards that promote energy efficiency. We remain
dedicated to implementing innovative solutions that maximize
efficiency and deliver cost savings to our homeowners.”
Meritage Homes, an ENERGY STAR partner since 2001, builds homes
that exceed the ENERGY STAR program requirements for energy
efficiency and deliver long- and short-term savings to its
homeowners. Meritage Homes will be honored for its leadership in
advancing energy-efficient homebuilding at the 2017 ENERGY STAR
Awards Ceremony in Washington, D.C. on April 26, 2017.
With guidance and support from the ENERGY STAR program, Meritage
Homes set and achieved many sustainability goals last year,
including:
- Delivering 7,138 ENERGY STAR certified homes in 2016, which are
estimated to save more than 61 million kWh of electricity,
eliminate over 93 million pounds of CO2, and reduce homeowner
utility bills by an estimated $7.3 million annually.
- Achieving an average Home Energy Rating System (HERS) Index
Score of 58 for all homes rated in 2016.
- Advocating for better building practices and improving trade
awareness by infusing ENERGY STAR messaging in all marketing, sales
training, and advocacy to the industry and
municipalities.
- Building cost-effective Zero Energy homes at a community scale,
and developing utility best practices to serve full-scale zero
energy communities in the future.
- Developing advanced load-leveling strategies to improve the
value of energy efficiency to all stakeholders.
- Partnering with the EPA, DOE, utilities, and manufacturers to
demonstrate scalable advances in energy efficiency.
- Adopting advanced ventilation strategies to reduce humidity and
HVAC demand, and partnering with the Indoor airPLUS program to
initiate new homebuilder sales training programs.
"Through their continued collaboration with ENERGY STAR,
Meritage Homes delivers innovative energy efficiency solutions to
help Americans save money, save energy and reduce emissions," said
Dean Gamble, Technical Manager for the ENERGY STAR Certified Homes
program. “I applaud Meritage Homes for repeatedly earning the
EPA's highest ENERGY STAR award, the 2017 Partner of the Year –
Sustained Excellence Award, demonstrating a strong commitment to
educating its employees, industry stakeholders, and the public
about the value of energy-efficient construction."
In 2015 alone, ENERGY STAR and its partners saved American
businesses and consumers 503 billion kilowatt hours and $34 billion
dollars on their energy bills, while achieving broad emission
reductions.
The 2017 Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Awards
honors organizations that have made outstanding contributions to
protecting the environment through energy efficiency. These awards
recognize ongoing leadership across the ENERGY STAR program,
including energy-efficient products, services, new homes, and
buildings in the commercial, industrial and public sectors.
For a complete list of 2017 winners and information, and more
information about ENERGY STAR’s awards program, visit
www.energystar.gov/awardwinners.
About Meritage Homes
Meritage Homes is the eighth-largest public homebuilder in the
United States, based on homes closed in 2016. Meritage Homes builds
and sells single-family homes for first- time, move-up, luxury and
active adult buyers across the Western, Southern and Southeastern
United States. Meritage Homes builds in markets including
Sacramento, San Francisco Bay area, southern coastal and Inland
Empire markets in California; Houston, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Austin and
San Antonio, Texas; Phoenix/Scottsdale, Green Valley and Tucson,
Arizona; Denver and Fort Collins, Colorado; Orlando, Tampa and
south Florida; Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina;
Greenville-Spartanburg and York County, South Carolina; Nashville,
Tennessee; and Atlanta, Georgia.
Meritage Homes has designed and built over 100,000 homes in its
31-year history, and has a reputation for its distinctive style,
quality construction, and positive customer experience. Meritage
Homes is the industry leader in energy-efficient homebuilding and
has received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR
Partner of the Year for Sustained Excellence Award every year since
2013 for innovation and industry leadership in energy efficient
homebuilding.
For more information, visit www.meritagehomes.com.
About ENERGY STAR
ENERGY STAR has 16,000 partners working to protect the
environment through greater energy efficiency, including
manufacturers, retailers, public schools, hospitals, real estate
companies, and home builders. Since 1992, ENERGY STAR and its
partners have saved American families and businesses $430 billion
on their energy bills and 4.6 trillion kilowatt-hours of energy,
while achieving broad emissions reductions—including 2.8 billion
metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
ENERGY STAR® is the simple choice for energy efficiency. For 25
years, EPA’s ENERGY STAR program has been America’s resource for
saving energy and protecting the environment. Join the millions
already making a difference at energystar.gov.
Contacts
Meritage Homes Corporation
Brent Anderson, 972-580-6360
VP Investor Relations
media@meritagehomes.com
ENERGY STAR
Kristinn Leonhart, 202-343-9062
Communications Director
Sharpe.Kristinn@epa.gov
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