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last updated: March 2023

A Home Energy Rating System (HERS) is a process of administering diagnostic analysis to determine and produce data that provides a method of evaluation for a California State approved home energy efficiency ratings. This establishes a benchmark of a home’s energy use and identifies necessary and/or best possible upgrades for homeowners.

In 2003 CalCERTS, Inc. was approved by the California Energy Commission to become a Home Energy Rating System (HERS) Provider. The company’s mission is to fill the growing need in the Energy Efficiency industry for a technically superior, yet customer-oriented HERS Provider. CalCERTS, Inc. is a private organization that provides service, support, training and certification to HERS raters.

HERS raters are independent contractors who are either independently operated or who sub-contract to larger energy rating firms. Raters charge their customers for site ratings and pay a fee to CalCERTS, Inc. for processing the ratings and issuing certification.

CalCERTS, Inc. has developed and owns its own software which is approved by the California Energy Commission and is utilized by the HERS rater to enter rating data. CalCERTS, Inc. maintains the computer based registry of data as a repository of information that can be accessed by the HERS rater, building departments, contractors and government agencies.

Michael E. Bachand,President

After an extensive 20-year career in residential construction, green code development, energy code training, research and development for field verification and diagnostic testing of energy features, Michael founded CalCERTS, Inc. and was approved as the second Home Energy Rating System (HERS) Provider in CA in 2003. Since that time, he has developed CalCERTS, Inc. into the leading HERS Provider in CA, and the only approved HERS II Provider for Whole House Ratings and Audits. Mike has brought many improvements to HERS rating practices, and has been an industry leader in digital processing of data. Mr. Bachand regularly advises the California Energy Commission on the Title 24 HERS Regulations and works with them and the various utilities to support the HERS industry. His firm has won Energy Star awards for excellence every year since 2005. He continues to be a recognized leader in the HERS industry in training, education, industry development and innovation.

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