Category Archives: home energy audit

Professional Home Energy Assessments

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Douglas W. Marcille, Energy Industry Leader

Professional energy assessments generally go into great detail. The energy auditor should do a room-by-room examination of the residence, as well as a thorough examination of past utility bills. Many professional energy assessments will include a blower door test. Most … Continue reading →

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Home energy audits: Doctor’s checkups for a house

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Douglas W. Marcille, Energy Industry Leader

Jim Alexander, a real estate agent in Atlanta, decided this summer to subject his own 11-year-old house to an energy audit. “If this was something I was going to recommend to my clients I wanted to see for myself how … Continue reading →

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Low E Sound Cool, Supposedly Work Even Better

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Damian Styers

Now that the green movement is on in full force and we’ve all become conscious of how to make our homes more efficient, the change has started the race for big businesses who supply to our every demands.
Well, now the demands are for more home energy efficient products and suppliers are on the move. We’ve [...] Continue reading →

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How Will BP Oil Spill Influence Home Energy?

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Damian Styers

If you were thinking about getting a home energy audit so that you can be more energy efficient around the house and save some money, now might be the best time to do it.
As we all know, there is a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is costing roughly between 1000 – [...] Continue reading →

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Zero Energy Homes?

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Damian Styers

Zero Energy Homes is one of the newest buzz terms in the green community – can you take a guess as to what it means?
While it may be fairly self-explanatory, can homes nowadays in the United States really require zero energy to run and therefore help curtail our dependence on oil and gas?
It may be [...] Continue reading →

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How Products Earn An Energy Star Label

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Damian Styers

If you’ve been looking at a home energy audit as a way to potentially save some money around the house, you’ve likely also done some research into which types of products can help you be more energy-efficient around the house.
The brand name that frequently comes up is Energy Star as their products are time and [...] Continue reading →

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Contractors Head To D.C. To Lobby Cash For Caulkers

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Damian Styers

It’s been a trying time for many contractors across America as the recession has put a number of them on the sidelines. While real estate foreclosures reached new highs across the country, renovations, energy efficiency and home improvements were the last thing on anyone’s mind.
But there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
The [...] Continue reading →

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UK Blazing A Trail With Smart Metering At Home?

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Damian Styers

Every now and then we learn something from the British. Whether it’s theater, soccer tricks or even the term ‘bloke’ – if you use it – we like to share their ideas. Their on to a good one with home energy efficiency that hopefully is shared worldwide.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change announced that [...] Continue reading →

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Cash For Caulkers: More Jobs, More Energy

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Damian Styers

It’s getting close to that time where you need to find your local home energy auditor. Have you heard about the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act? In simpler terms, it’s called Cash For Caulkers.

It follows the lines of it’s predecessor, Cash For Clunkers, which was a successful bill in 2009 that allowed owners of gas-guzzling [...] Continue reading →

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Let Us Schedule Your Home Energy Audit

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Damian Styers

You’ve finally made the right decision, you want to have a home energy audit of your home done. Your goal is to save on energy costs, to consume less energy and to ensure your home is performing as energy-efficient as possible. Now what do you do? Where do you turn? How do you go about [...] Continue reading →

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