Energy efficiency ratings

Klar Cite’s name

Mandatory

Required: must be met for the credential.

Guidance

This is guidance, not a requirement. Green Star Buildings Submission Guidelines restates what Green Star’s standard requires; the register holds it and cites it, and does not count it as a requirement or show it as one.

Green Star·clause Credit 23: Energy Use·p.173

Climate Health

Level: Minimum Expectation

Original wording

Green Star Buildings Submission Guidelines clause Credit 23: Energy Use — words not shown. Read it at the source. The held copy is a single-user licence and does not extend to republishing its clauses.

The clause is held and verified. Only its words are withheld.

Klar Cite classification — not the standard’s words

Addresses: energy use in residential buildings

written by a model, checked against the clause

Read it at the source

Details

How it is proven

Who checks it: Independent body verifies — a certifier, auditor or verifier with no stake

Klar Cite’s reading

Klar Cite’s reading of the clause, not the scheme’s own claim.

Type of requirement: Meet a limit or condition — e.g. a maximum emission or a minimum recycled content
Standing: Required — must be met for the credential
Topic: Climate Health — the topic the clause addresses, grouped by the Common Materials Framework (CMF)
Level: Minimum Expectation — the level of the credential this clause belongs to
Option: Option C — the document offers alternatives, and this is one

Cite this clause

Green Star · Green Star Buildings Submission Guidelines · version v1.1 Rev A · clause Credit 23: Energy Use · page 173 · build 2026-10-27-1239 · https://klarcite.com/r/bd45657f32766c95

Source document

Record details

Page 173. Read in build 2026-10-27-1239, harvested 2026-10-27.

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