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Success with Collaboration
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There’s a saying that goes “Teamwork makes the dream work.” Many companies put posters of this saying in their offices to encourage workers to collaborate to achieve a specific goal. It ... [continue reading]
Preparing for Climate Change
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Home performance, long seen as a tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, can also help individuals and communities adapt to climate change. To be effective in this role, the home performance industry must itself learn ... [continue reading]
ScanTheSun: A Tool for Solar-Panel Users
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In the ideal case of an individual installation, solar panels are mounted on the southern pitch of a roof of buildings with high insolation. (See “Vocabulary” for the definition of insolation and a ... [continue reading]
Measure Where All Your Power Is Being Used, Part 2
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Using Your Smart Meter and Circuit Breaker to Measure Everything Else [continue reading]
Ohmconnect Gets Customers Involved in Demand-Response
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The year 1973 was an important one in the history of energy efficiency. Due to the OPEC oil embargo, heating fuel was scarce and costly. President Nixon asked all Americans to lower their thermostats to 68°... [continue reading]
September/October Contributors
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Jack Deslippe “Measure Where All Your Power Is Being Used: Parts 1, 2, and 3” Jack Deslippe says, “If you’re determined enough, you can track down every fraction of a watt that is ... [continue reading]
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Redefining Home Performance in the 21stCentury
Today, the Home Performance Coalition (HPC) calls on policymakers, industry leaders, energy program managers and contractors to redefine home energy ...
Laurie Guevara-Stone
Zero-Energy Homes Are Ready for Mainstream Markets
Zero-energy (ZE) homes—efficient homes that produce or procure as much renewable energy as they consume over the course ...
