We had a chat with Chris Hunt, an energy coach for HEA. He explains how he is an energy coach for Californian residents for free. In part 5 of this series, Chris shares the importance of having smart controls of your home. Just by turning stuff on and off in Read more…
We had a chat with Chris Hunt, an energy coach for HEA. He explains how he is an energy coach for Californian residents for free. In part 4 of this series, Chris explains the key to reducing electricity and gas bills is not to give up your favorite stuff and Read more…
We had a chat with Chris Hunt, an energy coach for HEA. He explains how he is an energy coach for Californian residents for free. In part 3 of this series, Chris goes through a typical experience of a homeowner or renter with an energy coach. He uses software that Read more…
We had a chat with Chris Hunt, an energy coach for HEA. He explains how he is an energy coach for Californian residents for free. In part 2 of this series, Chris dives into common power hogs that often surprise people. He advises and helps with simple, cheap fixes to Read more…
We had a chat with Chris Hunt, an energy coach for HEA. He explains what an energy coach does and why it is free to PG&E and SCE customers. The utility companies, in effect, pay for this free service. Chris says that energy coaching can save people significant money by Read more…
We have talked about lightbulbs in the past. LED lightbulbs have improved dramatically in the past decade. We even wrote an article about how to choose LED lightbulbs for your home. The bottom line is that if you really want to reduce your energy bill, lightbulbs matter. A recent NYT Read more…
By next year in 2020, all the utility companies in California plan to roll out Time of Use (TOU) rates for 20 million consumers. Some will start this year. TOU has proven quite successful at small scale, saving households money while helping offload the state’s electric grid. Time of Use Read more…
Is solar a good investment? For some, this is the million dollar question. Actually, it’s more like a $13,000 question. According to EnergySage, a typical American who can get tax credit for their installation will spend about this much for a solar installation. People install solar panels for reasons beyond Read more…
Some recent research is showing that “zero-energy homes is almost to cost parity”. What does this mean in plain English? First, here’s wikipedia’s explanation of “zero-energy”: [when the] total amount of energy used by the building on an annual basis is roughly equal to the amount of renewable energy created on the Read more…
Enervee has been in the energy industry since 2010. The company took off with a simple idea in mind: let’s make an easy to understand score, so that people can easily select money and environment saving appliances. People don’t buy appliances often, so they decided to help people where it Read more…