When we conduct in-home audits for high-usage clients, we often bring with us and set up a Rainforest monitor. This device usually only takes 15 minutes to set up, but it is invaluable for knowing what is going in your house regarding your electricity use. The way it works is Read more…
When you are out shopping for LED lightbulbs you are going to notice a few key terms: Watts (W) Lumens (LM) Base Model Brightness Watts measure the “power” of a lightbulb. For decades, besides the people mainly chose lightbulbs by wattage (25W means 25 watts and 100W means 100 watts). Read more…
Did you know conventional light bulbs produce a large amount of heat that not only leads to them burning out but also makes your utility bills go up for nothing? Well, now I know why my “green friends” have advised me to switch to LED light bulbs for so long. Read more…
I had to look into the rising cost of heating my home recently. For someone new to this, I learned a lot quite quickly about something most of us don’t ever think about: how your home stays warm in the winter. It’s the furnace. Here’s what I learned about how Read more…
If you don’t know what a recirc pump does, I explained it previously. It is possible to control the timer for your recirc pump (and other devices) by using the following: a recirc pump with a 110V wire plug Amazon’s Alexa a Smart plug like the TP-Link Kasa plug a 3rd 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…
Years ago a friend gave us a beautiful chrome heated towel rack for use in our bathroom. Plug it in, drape your towels over it, and treat yourself to a nice warm towel after every shower or bath. Sounds great, right? Problem is, it’s expensive! The device has a normal Read more…
This the second article of a two part series looking at the relationship between energy and pets. Read part 1 about heating and cooling your pet here. Nearly seventy percent of American households are home to a pet, resulting in a collective count of over 400 million fish, dogs, cats, Read more…
As an energy coach who likes to work on large homes I am constantly surprised by the number of homes I visit that still have not swapped out their old incandescent lightbulbs for LEDs. I suspect it is due to the rather large energy bills they already pay and the Read more…
Heat Pump Water Heaters (HPWHs) are a very promising technology in both residential and commercial applications because of their improved efficiency and user benefits. A HPWH operates on an electrically-driven vapor compression cycle and pumps energy from its surroundings to water in a storage tank, raising the temperature of the Read more…