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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 [...]

How Efficient is Solar Power?

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Is Solar Power Efficient? Just last week in a fuel price conversation among colleagues, someone wondered aloud why solar energy was not more aggressively pursued. The quick response was, “solar is not efficient.” Really? And hauling oil over here to America from Saudi Arabia is efficient? Here’s a tid-bit found in an newspaper article : [...]

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. [...]

Control Your Home Energy Consumption

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Reduce Energy Consumption with a Digital Thermostat A quick, low cost adjustment to help reduce your home energy bill is the installation of a digital thermostat that can be pre-programmed. Depending on the model you purchase, thermostats can be programmed to different temperatures for different times of the day or week. If everyone is away [...]

Home Energy Use Measured in Kilowatt-Hours

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

How Many Kilowatt-Hours Does Your Home Use? Making an informed choice about solar home energy requires knowing how many kilowatt-hours your home uses. Until the recent concern with our environment and energy prices, many have never paid much attention to how many kilowatt-hours their home uses. What is a kilowatt-hour? Electric utility companies measure your [...]

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