Posts Tagged ‘efficiency’

Raise your hand if you know what a home energy audit can do for your comfort, your health, and your wallet.

Find out how much Uncle Sam is willing to pay you for upgrading your home’s insulation, furnace, or windows through the pending Homestar Program. Cha-ching!

Tune in on June 9th, 2010 to hear me present on how UNC is slashing up to 50% of a building’s yearly energy consumption.

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Here’s a sample of some of the recent research on building design and energy efficiency. A performance comparison of passive and low-energy buildings Ardeshir Mahdavi, Eva-Maria Doppelbauer Energy and Buildings, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 4 March 2010, ISSN 0378-7788, DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2010.02.025. Abstract: This paper compares apartments in two residential blocks in Vienna; one [...]

According to a recent post on MetaEfficient, Earth Day this year will be a little brighter.  That’s because EarthLED will release a new series of LED light bulbs at the potentially market shaking price of $25. Anyone who follows the lighting market knows that LEDs offer improved energy efficiency, lifetime, and reduced environmental hazard, but [...]

I received a letter yesterday from my friendly local Duke-Energy office, letting me know that they’re re-branding a load shedding program they’ve had around for ages.  The “Air Conditioning Load Control” program (major snore) is now “Power Manager” (merely a yawn). Here’s how it works: Duke Energy installs a remote control device on your air [...]

Have you ever wondered whether Mother Nature is trying to teach you a lesson? Neither have I, until I got my electric bill this month. If you’ve been following this blog awhile, you’ll know that I always track my electricity consumption versus the average monthly temperature.  That helps me sort out the effects of weather [...]

You’ll have to forgive yesterday’s satiric look at the government’s new “Homestar” program.  I just couldn’t resist the name association. The press release was fake, but the frustration was real: Why do we need further incentive to do the things that already have a financial benefit? My suspicion is that the average American homeowner lacks [...]

On Tuesday, President Obama announced his plans to make Homestar Runner, that lovable armless marshmallow from internet cartoons, the United States’ new Energy Efficiency Czar. As part of his jobs agenda, the President outlined the potential for energy efficiency improvements, like insulation and window retrofits, to put furloughed construction workers back to work.  He emphasized [...]