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With the rising cost of energy these days we are all looking for ways to reduce our average monthly electric bill. Many consider the installation of solar panels or wind generators for their homes, but after examining the costs to implement such projects are usually their financial possibilities. What if there are economic methods for solar cells and generators in the garage to build and produce some home-made energy? Would not it be great to be able to live "off the grid?" Well, because of ...
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Solar energy has never been so accessible and affordable to the average household size. It will see more and more regular today, residential use of solar energy to power, if not all of their electrical appliances. This development was made possible thanks to the easy to install DIY solar energy system, which was made to the components that you can easily get from your local hardware store. ==>Get Best Make Solar Panel and Make Wind Turbine Guide<== Okay, I know there are a lot of ...
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Happy Earth Day everyone! I briefly contemplated a doom and gloom post about the state of the global climate and lack of regulation. But let's focus on what does work, albeit at a much smaller scale, instead of what doesn't work. Team Auffhammer has invested a lot of money in energy efficiency measures in our home. We have new windows ($$$$), a new roof ($$$), German shutters ($$), more efficient appliances ($$) and LED lighting ($) throughout the house. I have been monitoring our ...
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People love the idea of saving money and energy. It's just the execution that's the problem. Survey responses are all over the place when it comes to efficiency upgrades. A small lighting survey by a major lighting company found that 30 percent of homes don't use incandescents anymore. But a new study released by the Shelton Group, Utility Pulse 2013, shows that efficiency efforts are slowing overall. The overall trend in the survey is that energy-efficient investments are pretty stagnant. So ...
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Nest proved that energy monitoring can be tantalizing. And it's about to get even better. The company just announced that it has acquired MyEnergy to further enhance its suite of monitoring tools. Terms of deal were not released.Originally called Earth Aid, the startup launched its online dashboard in 2009 as one of the first energy monitoring solutions. Similar to EnergySavvy, Google's Powermeter andMicrosoft's Hohm, Earth Aid, and now MyEnergy, provides ...
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Katherine Tweed: May 9, 2013 A lot of the talk in home energy management is all about the startups: Opower, Nest, EcoFactor, Tendril, EnergyHub, to name a few. But the relatively nascent market, which still relies on buy-in from utilities, as Nest's recent announcements illustrate, is also attracting some old standbys in the utility world. The global giant Schneider Electric, for example, works across the entire electric ecosystem, from solar inverters to transformers to data center efficiency. ...
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WASHINGTON ' The U.S. Energy Department and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) today announced that registration is now open for America's Home Energy Education Challenge (AHEEC), a national student competition created to help families save money by saving energy. Students, educators, and school principals are encouraged to register to participate at HomeEnergyChallenge.org.Administered by NSTA for the Energy Department, America's Home Energy Education Challenge inspires student ...
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Alarm.com has acquired the home energy management startup EnergyHub. The security company has been moving further into connected home offerings in the past few years, and raised $136 million last year to expand the business. Alarm.com and EnergyHub were already working with utilities like San Diego Gas & Electric so the utility can leverage customers in its territory for demand response programs.'As we go after larger utility programs, we're now representing a larger, more resourceful ...
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Puget Sound Energy will offer free home energy assessments to help consumers better understand their home's basic energy use. Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/2013/05/09/2538727/puget-sound-energy-to-offer-free.html#storylink=cpyThe written assessment will include useful and cost-effective ways to improve the home's comfort and efficiency, including a review of the home's insulation levels, doors and windows, heating and cooling systems, major appliances, lighting, and more.The ...
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Homeowners and landlords interested in saving money on their heating bills are invited to a group tour of four Brattleboro homes on Saturday, May 11, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Diverse in size, style and age, the homes have all been retrofitted to save energy. The contractors and homeowners will be on hand to talk about the energy-saving features of each home. "This is a wonderful opportunity for folks to see a wide variety of energy-efficient homes in their community, and to learn from contractors ...
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