Confirm LBNL's Home Energy Saver tool is discontinued and select a current alternative
domain: energy.gov · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Check homeenergysaver.lbl.gov / hespro.lbl.gov directly — as of this writing they return "site undergoing maintenance," reflecting that public funding for Home Energy Saver was sunset in 2023 and the consumer tool is no longer operating.
Do not integrate against the historical Home Energy Saver API (documented at developers.buildingsapi.lbl.gov) for new production work; it dates to LBNL's older HES engine and is not an actively supported service.
Redirect any consumer-facing "estimate my home's energy use" need to DOE's currently maintained Home Energy Score program (hescore.labworks.org / hes-documentation.labworks.org) instead, the actively supported program sharing LBNL/DOE engineering lineage.
If historical HES engineering methodology documentation is needed for reference, LBNL's hes-documentation.lbl.gov engineering-documentation site remains available even though the consumer-facing tool is down.
Known gotchas
Older search results and blog posts still describe Home Energy Saver as if it's a live consumer tool and API — verify current status directly before quoting it as available; as of 2026 it is not accepting new production traffic.
Don't assume "Home Energy Saver" and "Home Energy Score" are the same program — they share LBNL/DOE lineage and documentation infrastructure but are distinct tools with different current statuses.
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