Why don’t we have energy efficiency ratings on properties for sale or rent in the United States like the European Union does?
Recently, I was on vacation in France and noticed that advertisements of properties for sale contained 2 colorful charts ranking properties on a scale from A to G. Here is an example of what I saw on every French real estate listing: I took a picture of the charts and later used google translate to figure out what was being measured. The title in green translates to “Energetic performance,” which I assume is more correctly stated as Energy performance in…