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Home Energy Reduction Diet Update

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Home Energy Reduction Diet Update My home energy reduction diet has been going well since August. It’s December now. On this cloudy, cold day in South Texas, I’m cold. Setting my digital thermostat to 85 degrees in summer was easily tolerated by this southern acclimatized body. However, the thermostat setting of 68 [...]

Home Energy Efficiency versus New Energy

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Image 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, 2008

Image 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, 2008

Building 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 Audit Moving Us Closer to Energy Efficiency

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Our 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 [...]

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 [...]

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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