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The Evolution of Smart Home Performance and Its Benefits to the Grid
As the number of residential demand-response programs and the use of smart home technologies has grown over the last several years, an important opportunity has emerged in home performance to increase residential energy savings. Namely, ...
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Detroit Edison Saves
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Detroit Edison turned the prospect of $14 million in unpaid bills into a success story by combining consumer education with energy conservation measures. [continue reading]
Understanding Power Quality
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Power quality is a relatively obscure concept, limited mostly to conversations among utility engineers and physicists, but as electronic appliances take over the home, it may become a residential issue as well. [continue reading]
Trade Allies: Long Haul Partners
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Utilities and demand-side management firms have made huge advances in recent years as they've implemented energy conservation programs. [continue reading]
Who's Repairing What? Duke Power's Success
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Duke Power Company in North Carolina is one utility intent on improving duct efficiency in its service territory. In the "Home Comfort Tune-Up," the utility targets all-electric homes with a mass mailing describing the program and its costs. [continue reading]
Duct Fixing in America
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Ducts and thermal energy distribution systems are the new frontier in energy conservation. Several utilities are just getting started, while others are thinking about launching duct repair programs. [continue reading]
Will Duct Repairs Reduce Cooling Load?
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Summer air conditioning causes the peak demand for electricity in most parts of the United States. If utilities reduce air conditioning demand, then they can avoid building expensive power plants. [continue reading]
Weatherizing (Almost) An Entire Town
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Final results aren't in yet, but officials at Ontario Hydro think they've made Espanola the most energy-efficient town in Canada. [continue reading]
Pulling Utilities Together: Water-Energy Partnerships
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Install high-efficiency showerheads and faucets in the average U.S. house, and the water meter will report about 6,000 gallons of water saved in one year. Not bad. But the savings continue. If the house has an electric water heater, the electric meter will show about 600 kilowatt-hours savings; if it's a gas heater, the savings will be 30 therms. [continue reading]
Valerie Briggs
NREL Research Finds That 22% of New Homes Completed in the U.S. in 2016 Were HERS Rated
The National Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (NREL) has been researching the penetration of the HERS Index Score in the U....
Cheryl Hiltzik
LIHEAP In Action: A LIHEAP Employee Story
The stories of positive impact on the lives of people who receive assistance from LIHEAP is only one part of ...
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