Whose home qualifies as the Efficient Home? Are these real people and homes?

Yes, these are real homes. For this report, we use a scale of 1 to 100 to rank all of the homes that are similar to yours. The Average Home represents the ones in the middle of the pack, performing at the 50-percent mark. The Energy Efficient Home represents homes that fall at the 25-percent mark, which means that 25-percent of the homes in your comparison consume this amount – or less – energy.