Understanding the ins and outs of your home’s heating and cooling equipment can be an essential part of helping to insure your home is operating at maximum energy efficiency. Your HVAC system can often times be the biggest component of this efficiency. By understanding how HVAC systems heat and cool your home, it is easier [...]
Your home’s lighting can have a big impact on both how much energy you use, and how comfortable or cozy your home feels. Understanding the differences between the many choices in home lighting will help to save energy and lower your energy bills by empowering you to find the lowest cost lighting options, while at [...]
Smart meters are a new tool being utilized by utility companies to help better manage, track, and understand the energy use of individual homes. Smart meters have many advantages over traditional meters, and allow for much higher levels of energy efficiency than have previously been possible. In addition to energy audits, smart meters can help [...]
As e-readers and e-books become increasingly more popular, the need for printed books will undoubtedly decrease. As we transition away from paper and toward the digital, we will make momentous strides toward a greener future. Not only can e-readers make the act of reading easier and more pleasurable, it is also an exceptional help in [...]
As consumers of electricity, we often don’t realize how extremely inefficient the process of getting energy from power plants to your home may be. The following infographic should give you a better idea of how home energy is received and how the creation, transmission, and usage of energy-consuming devices each contribute to inefficiency and waste. [...]
