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Affordable Solar Within the Next Five Years

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Affordable Solar Within the Next Five Years Making solar energy affordable to use for my home is my current goal. The current cost of installed solar, running about $10 per Kilowatt, takes my breath away. Currently we are in the energy conservation mode at our house, trying to reduce our daily kilowatt [...]

Building a Solar Home to Lower Energy Bills

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Lower Energy Bills — Build a Solar Home All of us want to cut our energy bills. Some of us are retrofitting our homes to incorporate solar energy. Others are building green, solar homes from the ground up. Now with the new federal tax incentives it makes financial sense for retrofitters and builders alike. The [...]

Zero Energy House Plans

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Building a Solar Home Going solar for us means retrofitting our existing home to use solar energy. However, the least expensive way to “go solar” is to build an energy efficient/solar home from the ground up. If your interested in building a new home. I found these house plans. Check them out. ZEH House Plans [...]

Home Solar Energy and the Credit Crisis

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Prepare for Home Solar Energy During the Credit Crisis Recent news of the extended federal energy tax credits for renewable energy energized the solar industry. Everything was coming up sunshine! With the more recent events in financial news, some think the sun is setting on solar. The credit crunch makes people think twice before doling [...]

Reducing Your Home Energy Use With Simple Maintenance

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Simple Maintenance Can Reducing Your Home Energy Use My husband and I are on a quest. We want to make use of all this Texas sunshine and harness it to replace some of our electric energy. Eventually, we’d love to go completely solar. But our budget dictates we go there in stages. Phase 1 of [...]

Seeking Simple Home Solar Energy Solutions

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Seeking Simple Home Solar Solutions We are seeking simple solar energy solutions to meet our home energy needs. Care for our environment remains high on my list of concerns. The raging national debate around solving the world’s energy crisis fizzles into hot air. And my rising home energy bill makes me angry. Our world desperately [...]

How Much Energy Does Your Freezer Use?

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

How Much Energy Does Your Freezer Use? Reducing energy consumption begins by knowing how much energy you consume in the first place. Having acquired our electric power monitor, a Kill-A-Watt meter, we are learning where the high-energy consumers are in our home. First, we plugged our refrigerator into the monitor. The results were posted Tuesday, [...]

How Our Simple Home Solar Energy Project Began

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia How Our Simple Home Solar Energy Project Began Our simple home solar journey began with keen understanding that governments are inept at finding solutions. People create solutions. So we asked ourselves, what can one ordinary couple do? We are not among America’s wealthy. We live on a budget which tightens with the [...]

Energy Consumption Measurements on My GE Refrigerator

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

How Much Energy Does my GE Refrigerator Use? The results are in! My trusty little Kill-A-Watt meter informs me that my 1996, 18.2 cubit foot GE refrigerator uses 3.13 kilowatt -hours per day. At my local utility rate, this refrigerator cost me $137 per year to operate. Is that good or bad? I don’t know. [...]

Home Energy Efficiency and Major Appliances

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Home Energy Efficiency and Major Appliances Eventually, I want a net ZEH , a house that produces as much energy as it uses. We are taking the small steps toward that end goal. Our initial goal is to reduce our energy consumption by 25%. For us that means reducing energy use to [...]

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