The Home Star Rebate Program makes so much sense that it's one of a rare breed of legislation for this Congress - a bill that's bipartisan! The Senate bill, S.3177, was introduced in late March and sponsored by Jeff Bingaman…
I saw this commercial on TV last night and knew I had to share it here. I saw this commercial on TV last night and knew I had to share it here. Yes, Georgia Power is part of the Southern…
Tomorrow I'm going to the Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable meeting on the topic of 'Georgia's Solar Future,' which got me to thinking about my friend and fellow HERS rater class instructor Mike Barcik's 5 step program for solar energy. Here it…
A great new tool for home performance diagnostic testing has come onto the market - the Wizard Stick. It's basically a small, handheld theatrical fog machine that uses the same non-toxic fluid as its larger, more prolific brethren. A great…
If you visit a lot of home energy efficiency related websites, as I do, and look around at the ads on those pages, you may notice quite a few that are selling various home energy auditor certifications. Unless they're offering…
It's Friday afternoon and time for some fun, so let's take a look at the four types of duct leakage. It's Friday afternoon and time for some fun, so let's take a look at the four types of duct leakage.…
You can turn electricity into heat at an efficiency of 100%! Every kilowatt-hour of electricity in turns into one kilowatt-hour of heat out. That sounds pretty good, doesn't it? The truth, however, is that electric resistance heat (toasters, baseboard heaters,…
1. If you want to save energy, the first thing you should do is weatherstrip your doors and caulk your windows. Not true. Your house has much bigger holes than those. 2. I live in the South (or another warm…
As a HERS (Home Energy Rating System) Provider, I check the home energy ratings that my raters do. Recently one of the EVER raters, Jason Payne of Structured Energies, completed a rating project for a homeowner who was financing home…
I'm one of those rare people who actually likes to go into crawl spaces. I strap on my knee pads, put on my head lamp, grab my camera, and go have fun. Well, perhaps I'm exaggerating a bit, but I…