Golden State Registry

The Warren-Alquist Act directs the California Energy Commission (CEC) to establish criteria for a statewide Home Energy Rating System (HERS) program. The CEC's California HERS program regulations establish requirements for home energy rating services offered by providers (including the providers' training and certification of raters) and for the CEC's certification of providers. The regulations define a provider as an organization that administers a California HERS program.

The 2022 Energy Code requires field verification and diagnostic testing (FV&DT) of specified residential energy efficiency measures to demonstrate compliance with the Energy Code. This testing must be performed by raters who are certified by a CEC-approved HERS provider. Additionally, the 2022 Energy Code describes the approval process and functional and technical requirements for a residential data registry.

National Energy Testing Institute, doing business as Golden State Registry (GSR), has applied for certification as a California HERS program provider to administer the California HERS program, which includes training, certifying, and overseeing HERS raters to conduct FV&DT for Energy Code compliance. GSR has also applied for approval of its residential data registry under the 2022 Energy Code. The HERS provider and data registry applications specify a scope of approval limited to prescriptive compliance of single-family residential space conditioning system alterations under the 2022 Energy Code.

On January 27, 2023, GSR submitted an application to the CEC requesting to be approved as a HERS provider and have its data registry approved under the 2022 Energy Code. In March 2025, GSR subsequently submitted revised application exhibits in response to CEC staff inquiries.

Staff determined the data registry application to be complete pursuant to CCR, title 24 section 10-110(b), and a public notice was posted to docket number 22-HERS-01. The notice provided an opportunity for public comment, and any comments received by March 5, 2025, were considered.

Staff concluded that GSR met the requirements specified in the 2022 Energy Code as it pertains to GSR's data registry application. Additionally, the applicant submitted documentation showing how it had met each regulatory requirement within the scope of the proposed approval request to become a HERS Provider.

On April 14, 2025, the CEC's Executive Director concurred with these conclusions and signed a recommendation to approve the GSR data registry and certify GSR as a HERS provider.

1. 24 CCR section 10-109(a) requires the Commission to approve a data registry application. GSR has submitted an application seeking Commission approval for its data registry under the 2022 Energy Code.
2. 20 CCR section 1674(a) requires an entity wishing to be certified as a Provider to submit an application to the Energy Commission. GSR has applied to become a provider and submitted an application.
3. The combined application was determined complete on February 14, 2025.
4. A public notice was posted to docket number 22-HERS-01. The notice provided an opportunity for public comment, and any comments received were considered as of March 5, 2025.
5. On April 14, 2025, the executive director recommended GSR's data registry and HERS provider certification be approved. On April 15, 2025, a copy of the recommendation was sent to the applicant as required.
6. The Energy Commission confirms the executive director's recommendation and finds that the requirements have been met. Therefore, GSR has met the requirements to be certified as a HERS provider and register single-family residential space conditioning system alterations compliance documents under the 2022 Energy Code.

The undersigned Secretariat to the CEC does hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of an order duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the CEC held on May 8, 2025.