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A Green Home Begins with a Home Energy Audit PDF Print E-mail

Discover cost-effective ways to reduce energy usage, improve comfort, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.green home

A Green Power Living Home Energy Audit helps you begin to green your home in several ways:

Identify Sources of Energy Loss

Heating and cooling account for 50 to 70% of the energy used in the average home. Air leakage alone is responsible for up to 40% of the energy used for heating.

  • Our Energy Professional evaluates your home's window, insulation, heating, cooling, water heating, lighting, and appliance efficiencies to pinpoint where your house is losing energy.
  • We use diagnostic testing to measure and identify causes of air and duct leakage, two major sources of energy loss.
  • This information is used in a powerful computer simulation to model your home's energy and evaluate various improvements for cost-effective energy savings.
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Why Get A Home Energy Audit? PDF Print E-mail

Your home is one of the most important and expensive investments you will make. A professional home energy audit can help you minimize the energy costs of that investment. At Green Power Living, we provide accurate and unbiased energy audits focused on providing you with the information needed to make your home comfortable and energy efficient.

If you want to improve the efficiency of your home, especially if you have high energy bills or your home is uncomfortable, consider contacting a professional to conduct a home energy audit to diagnose why.
-- ENERGY STAR (a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy)

Specific goals of an energy audit are to:

  • Identify the type, size, condition, and rate of energy consumption for each major energy using device.
  • Recommend appropriate energy conservation, operation, and maintenance procedures.
  • Estimate labor and materials costs for energy retrofits.
  • Project savings expected from energy retrofits.
  • Note current and potential health and safety problems and how they may be affected by proposed changes.
  • Explain behavioral changes that will reduce energy waste.
  • Provide a written record of decision making.

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