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Energy Efficiency
By Solar energy | May 21, 2009
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Energy Efficiency
Our plan to go solar and make our home a net ZEH variety home began nine (9) months ago with the implementation of energy conservation measures. Conservation meaning, daily choices that conserve energy and eliminate wasteful practices.
We’ve done all of the small, inexpensive, easily fixed steps to conserve energy and reduce our monthly kilowatt-hour usage.
For the past nine months, we’ve been diligently tracking our kilowatt-hour usages. Comparing our monthly energy use to the same month a year ago, we can see remarkable changes.
Over the past nine months, compared to the same nine months the year before, we’ve reduced our energy consumption by 26.8 percent. And this from energy conservation measures only that require little more that a decision to make a different choice.
Our next phase is energy efficiency.
Efficiency involves technological choices that save energy, such as energy efficient windows and energy saving appliances, just to name a few.
These things require a greater outlay of money, which makes this a more challenging step for us in these economic times.
So I’ll soon begin researching and documenting here in these pages our energy efficiency struggles and choices.
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