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Friday, December 12th, 2008How to Gain Control of Your Home Energy Consumption The buzzwords these days are green, renewable, sustainable, and carbon footprint. You care about all these, but sometimes your busy life keeps you from making changes. With work, kids, household upkeep, and bills, there just isn’t time to make huge changes. Instead of thinking about all [...]
Home Energy Efficiency versus New Energy
Friday, December 5th, 2008Image by rpeschetz via Flickr Home Energy Efficiency versus New Energy There appears to be a contest between embracing energy efficiency and going solar. Why is every thing a contest? We all want the same thing: • Reduced carbon footprint • Reduced energy bills • Reliable energy source • Energy independence Maybe it’s the government [...]
Home Energy Reduction Continues
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Image by eastpole via Flickr Our Home Energy Reduction Continues Affording a solar energy system for our home means drastically reducing the amount of energy we use at home. We have been on a conservation and efficiency binge for several months now. While not all our planned strategies are yet in place, the few changes [...]
Building a ZEH Home
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Building a New Zero Energy House The past few weeks (usually on Mondays) this blog has been highlight success stories of homeowners implemented changes to make their existing home a Net Zero Home (ZEH). While retrofitting a home for renewable energy is a good idea, today we focus on what it takes to build a [...]
Home Energy Savings with an LG Washer/Dryer
Monday, November 17th, 2008Home Energy Savings with an LG Washer/Dryer In these critical economic times, all of us want energy efficiency. Being energy efficient reduces our carbon footprint and reduces our monthly energy bill. We always search for new ways to reduce or eliminate our electrical load in order to make a home solar energy system compatible with [...]
Save on Your Home Energy Bill: Locate and Eliminate Phantom Loads
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008Locate and Eliminate Phantom Loads Whether you’re just trying to reduce your energy bill or reduce your energy load anticipating adding solar, paying attention to your phantom load use deserves your attention. What is a phantom load? The term phantom load is a euphemism for electronic devices that draw electricity even when we think they [...]
Home Energy Audit Moving Us Closer to Energy Efficiency
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008Our Home Energy Audit Moves Us Closer to Energy Efficiency Energy efficiency is our mission at this stage of our solar home energy journey. The less energy we use, the less we will pay for a home solar energy system. There are steps in this process. Although some of these steps are costly, some are [...]
More Net Zero Home Success Stories
Monday, October 27th, 2008Success stories from Sustainable Future customers I love seeing how others successfully incorporate solar energy as well as other renewable practices into their homes and lives. See how this couple from Knoxville, Tennessee, made energy efficient changes to their home . This East Knoxville home is an excellent example of the energy-efficient changes that can [...]
Affordable Home Solar Tip Number One
Thursday, October 16th, 2008Affordable Home Solar Tip Number One Tip number one: Have a professional home energy audit. PEC, my local energy cooperative, provides free home energy audits to their customers. After calling the help line, I had an appointment within a week. The auditor who came was friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. He spent almost two hours checking [...]
How to Read an Energy Guide Label
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008How to Read an Energy Guide Label In an earlier post, I shared about how to use a Kill-a-watt meter to determine home much energy your major home appliances are using. This handy electric meter told me my 1996, 18.2 cubit foot GE refrigerator cost me $137 per year to operate. Newer, energy-efficient refrigerators cost [...]
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