How can you know if your existing home’s heating and cooling systems are efficient? New homes are often modeled in software before they are constructed, and in many states this model is required to result in a certain level of heating and cooling efficiency. But after a home has been Read more…
It’s logical that household energy use will go up while we’re all spending more time at home. But how much more? Ohmconnect thinks it may be as much as $1.2B in increased utility bills for California residents. Ouch! Happily, there’s lots of low- and no-cost things we can do to reduce our home energy Read more…
Lisa Schmidt from HEA talks about a free program to lower energy bills for PG&E customers in California. Californians end up saving on energy bills with help from professionals free of charge. Lisa’s program, HomeIntel, is one of the P4P pilots that focus on lowering bills without needing to spend Read more…
Lisa Schmidt from HEA talks about a free program to lower energy bills for PG&E customers in California. It’s called HomeIntel, part of something PG&E offers under something called “pay for performance” often called “P4P.” Pay-for-performance is part of an arrangement between the State of California and the utility companies. Read more…
Previously, in part 1, Claudia Richter from OhmConnect explains how easy it is to get started with Demand Response. In part 2 of our interview, she now talks about the future of smart grids where residents get to “orchestrate” their energy use. In the future, people get to seamlessly be Read more…
Claudia Richter from OhmConnect explains what Demand Response is and why this program can actually pay people for saving energy in their homes. We’ve explained before how Demand Response can be a win-win for California. Pretty much, when everyone is pigging out on electricity, people who are willing to use Read more…
Message from San Mateo County We recently heard that San Mateo County residents can receive a $35 reward for recycling a used, working refrigerator or freezer. It’s through a new program from Peninsula Clean Energy, the county’s electricity provider. Go to PeninsulaCleanEnergy.com/fridge for details. According to Peninsula Clean Energy, “households can Read more…
In part 1 and part 2 of this interview, Patti talks about how our communities really need energy efficiency and how easy it is if people knew to focus on unnecessary waste. This is part 3 of the interview where she shares examples from her energy coaching where people were Read more…
In part 1, Patti shares with us why local communities need to energy efficiency. It’s not only good for climate change, the electric grid but also lower all of our utility bills. This is part 2 of our interview with Patti where we cover how reducing energy bills is much Read more…
In the article Five Ways to Reduce Energy Bills, we mentioned that variable use as one of the foreground loads to your energy bill. We covered reducing variable electric use previously. Now, we will talk about how to lower your bills for variable natural gas use. People are often more Read more…